Late Night Update
Since I figure my rotation will be all shot to hell this month anyway, I decided to work a little while on “Catch the Wind” this evening. I would love to finish this piece this month, but with everything else that is going on, I am not sure it will happen… Then again, I am really close to finishing Mary and once she is done it is just the kite tails and the backstitching. I guess only time will tell.
Anyway, I have some more exchange news! 
Not only did I receive my Summer Exchange from Natty on Thursday, Christine also got her Replacement Recipe Exchange piece from me too! Yipee! I still need to photograph the Summer Exchange from Natty, but at least I can show some pictures of the Recipe Exchange.
This picture actually shows the first piece that I stitched for Christine. Her blog shows the replacement. If you look closely, you will notice that the first piece had some little bows in the corners of the pot holder, but otherwise it is the same thing. I was really never happy with the bows on the first one so I decided to leave them out the second time around. I really like the way (both of) the pot holder(s) turned out and I am glad Christine likes it.
The photo also shows an example of a Guglhupf. This is a German/Austrian bundt cake and is the recipe that I included. I have made this cake quite a few times, but the recipe comes from a German cook book: So in order to translate the recipe into English for Christine I made a “sample” cake as I translated along. 
I have also started my Needleroll Exchange for XXX. I like the design I have chosen and will give a hint that a good part of it is stitched over one. Considering I don’t do it a lot, the over one stitching is going pretty smoothly and as I have designated the weekends as packing-free days, I hope to get most of the over-one done tomorrow.
But now I am off to bed! Good night.
8 August 2006 at 04:01
Renee, the recipe exchange piece is really cute and Catch the Wind looks awesome.
Ann.