Incoherent Scribblings

Stitching for Sanity

As I mentioned the other day, this past week was sort of chaotic. And though I didn’t spend as many hours stitching this week as I normally do, I think if I hadn’t spent at least some time stitching I would probably typing this from the funny farm.
Consequently, in an attempt to save my sanity through cross stitch, I managed to make slow but steady progress on almost all of my WIPs last week. I made some solid progress on “Above the Clouds,” “Fairy Flora,” and “Home of a Needleworker.” I completed roughly half of Mary’s ruffle on Tuesday and on Wednesday I happily realized that I am nearing the end of the cross stitching on my Spring Cat. Today was my exchange and round robin day and as you can see, I worked some on Leslie’s RR. (You can see the progress on my other pieces in my gallery.)

I had every intention of continuing my rotation Saturday and working on “Celtic Spring,” but I was out and about all day. Then when I finally did get home all I wanted was to soak in a bubble bath, so Mae was neglected for yet another week.

Saturday is always a day when I may or may not get much stitching done and, as a result, my progress on “Celtic Spring” has been sort of hit or miss the last couple of months. I am not too troubled by my recent lack of progress on “Celtic Spring” though: I have decided that once “Catch the Wind” is done I will slide “Celtic Spring” into my Tuesday spot and designate Saturdays as Stitcher’s Choice Day.

And now in exchange news… I have some good and not so good news on that front. The good news is that Nicki received her Summer Exchange from me safe and sound, so now I can share a picture. The pattern is a Janlynn freebie full of bright summery colors that I stitched on a piece of Dawn’s hand-dyed fabric. I love, love, love the way this turned out and some day when I have time (say around the year 2050) I intend to make it for myself.

However, on the flip side I learned the other day that I will have to make replacement piece for the Recipe Exchange. Replacement piece, you say? What happened?

Well, my recipe exchange package reached its recipient (Christine) in an amazing four days from Germany to Canada. This in and of itself would have been wonderful except Christine got a surprise that she wasn’t expecting when she opened the package: It was empty!

No, I did not send the package to her that way! Apparently someone decided to take the exchange but send on the empty envelope. Needless to say both Christine and I were shocked about this development. And though I am somewhat angry that someone would steal the contents of a package but send on the envelope, I have to admit I also think the situation is slightly amusing.

I have started the replacement piece and hope to finish it up this week. Christine said it would be OK if I waited to mail the Recipe Exchange until I mail her Leslie’s RR in a couple of weeks, but I would really like to try and get the replacement stitched up and sent to her before that if possible.

So that’s all for this late night edition of “Stitched with Love and Cat Hair.” Good night.