Just In Time

The next part of See the Star comes out this evening, and I completed it before it does. Something I'm not behind on, yay! I like the way the colors are coming together, and I hope to keep up to date with this one.

Charity Heart

I caved and started something else this week, but it's small and for a good cause. Elke, one of the owners of the Marquoir group, is taking hearts drawn by children and turning them into cross stitch designs. She has 31 of these and they're to be used for a German children's charity. I volunteered for one, and ended up getting two. This is the start of the first one. Since the picture on Saturday, I've almost completed this one. You can see more on her blog. Hopefully, this one will be done today.

A Bit of Blue

With my fondness for overdyed floss, is it a wonder I switched out a lot of the original colors of this for overdyed? I'm liking the results so far. This is still part three, and there's a bit more of it to do before Tuesday, as the new part comes out on Wednesday. I should have it done easily.

We didn't go anywhere this weekend; my host got sick, and though he wanted to travel, I refused to let him do so with a fever. Instead, we went over to someone else's house and played Pax Britannica. It was interesting, being the US in the late part of the nineteenth century. Yes, I'm a real geek. I play war games. I doubt many of you do, because it's one of those rare traits. I did work on this during the Congresses of Europe where the US wasn't invited. Got quite a bit of stitching done.

Getting a Leg Up (or Down)

Bibi's coming along. This week I did some white again and black. The black line going down is the front of Bibendum's leg on the bicycle. I'm definitely over halfway on him now, and the big white guy's end is in sight.

Another Building Rising

Well, more brown and more red brick this week on the buildings. You can see the right hand building next to the center taking shape. It's still fun and is coming along slowly but prettily, I think.

Gerry's Gypsy Rose

I finished another crazy quilt round robin block yesterday. It's for the Anything Goes Traditional round robin, and is Gerry K's block. I brought her block and one other on my trip to Kosovo. This top picture is after Lisa's wonderful work on it.

Here it is after my work. I did three seams and one motif - the chain stitch paisley. The coin trim is one of the things I picked up in Split last year during the Croatia vacation. The rest is just silk thread, some silk ribbon, and the beads I brought with me. I think it looks pretty good.

See More Stars

I started part three of See the Stars this week, and it's getting a bit more colorful. There's a -lot- to part three, though, so it's putting me behind on some of the other pieces I've got the stitchalong deadlines on. Not to mention my other stitching.

It's still cold here, but at least it was sunny today. The daffodils and tulips are coming up on the embassy grounds. Hopefully the snow won't kill them.