Incoherent Scribblings

A Real Stitching Post

I know that Bea is dying to see a picture of the square I stitched for her robin, so here is “Edwina Hedgehog with Flowers,” from The World of Cross Stitching, April 2006. This was a really fun little square to stitch and it was nice to stitch a cute little cartoony character again. (I haven’t stitched one for ages!)

The post date for this robin isn’t for a few days, but since I need to pack up my Crazy Cat Lady Exchange piece today and mail it off to XXX, I think I will go ahead and mail the robin to Kara as well.

Speaking of the Crazy Cat Lady Exchange… I finally did the finishing on it yesterday. I have been trying to do the finishing for a week, but spent most of the week running around for supplies instead. You see, I thought I had brought most of my finishing supplies like quilt batting, ribbon, buttons, etc. with me to the US, and I am still pretty sure that I did, but for the life of me I couldn’t find anything in my mess of things that are only about half unpacked.

As a result, it took about four trips to Wal-Mart before I got everything together… which wouldn’t be such a big deal, except Mom lives in Small Town Iowa and the closest Wally World is 22 miles away. I tried to find the supplies in town, but in a rural Iowa town of 1800 people things like Tacky Glue are always a challenge to find.

Nevertheless, I put the finishing touches on the piece last night at about 11pm, so it is ready to drop in the mail as soon as I finish here. And, like all my exchanges, it is so charming that I wish I didn’t have to give it away.