One Stitch At A Thyme

I’ve noticed that the last dozen or so blog entries have been nothing but whining about my job and now lack there of. Well I’m putting a stop to that with this entry. This is suppose to be a blog about my needlework, not my problems. So I shall move my whining to a new blog and get back to writing about my needlework.

I’ve tried to stick to a rotational schedule in the past and I will return to it as soon as I get this time sensitive project done. I swear on my stack of numerous bobbin floss boxes – I will NOT start another needlework project until I get at least 5 of my 10 WiPs finished.

Now on to the new Work In Progress page, side bar link and percentage bar.

This is the 10th project in my bulging WiPs pile. A wedding present for my sister which unfortunately didn’t get started soon enough and has now become either a Christmas present for 2006, or a one year anniversary present for June 2007. The kit is called “To Love and Cherish” by Sandy Orton. I have all the copyright information on it’s WiP webpage.

Anyway here is a progress picture I took earlier today of “To Love and Cherish”. I’m guessing that it’s roughly 20% complete. I’ve always liked Sandy Orton’s designs, so much so that if I ever get married I’d probably stitch this same design for myself.



Well that’s it for this Blog Blurb. Hopefully in a couple of weeks I’ll have substantial progress to post.

Called manufacturing services today, and again they blew me off saying no work this month. They’re obviously not going to call me back so I told Cheryl that I was coming in sometime after lunch to pick up my organizer and fan from the stock room.

Well this means the odds of getting Maryann’s wedding stitchery done for Christmas just went up 100%

Update 3:00pm: When I went over today at 1:30pm to pick up my stuff I finally got the truth out of Cheryl. The truth being that the earliest they might call me back to work, if they decide to that is, is the end of January or February. Can you believe that they were going to let me hang in limbo for 6 months!!! I wish they had enough guts to tell me at the beginning of September, then I could have at least started looking for work. Trouble is I’m going to have the same problem as last year. Businesses want you to work holiday hours and I don’t have a car. Meaning no one will hire me.

Just another typical UNLUCKY FRIDAY the 13th.

Called today, and again Cheryl says no work. Only this time it’s - maybe until the middle of October. I’ll try calling again on October 13 and if they push the date forward on me again I’ll have no choice but to go to work and pick up my organizer and fan and start to look for work some where else.

Called Tuesday the 5th and there was no work for the week. Called again today, and Cheryl says no work at all until the first of October. Trouble is I can’t quit, I need to build up my resume with a current full time work status.

Looks like Maryann’s wedding stitchery will be getting that much closer to completion. That and a lot of other odds n’ ends that I need to work on, believe me I’ll have plenty to keep me busy for the next 3 weeks.

The electronic scales are finally back. Yea! But with the sporadic delivery of electronic parts my work days have been very slim. As I mentioned before I was off Aug. 24, 25, & 28. Well I didn’t fair much better the next week. I only worked 29, 30, 31, & Sept. 1st with labor day being today and no work I was also told Friday, by Cheryl, to stay home on the 5th ,tomorrow, and call in at 10 am to see if I’d be working this week at all.

I have a feeling my temp job is coming to an end.