One Stitch At A Thyme

Lee the Lake Stitcher's Stitching Bloggers Question of the Month.....

Do you stitch patriotic/national pieces (or maybe just pieces that represent a specific place)? What's your favorite?

Our Stitching Bloggers Question is all about May Flowers.

What's your favorite floral piece that you've stitched? Do you prefer your flowers as the centerpiece of the design or as an accent?

Wow almost 3 weeks since I babbled about something... So let's get to it by starting off with Lee's question. Well I've narrowed it down to two pieces that I've done in the past.

1) Summer's End by Pamela Kellogg of Kitty and Me Country Crafts



2) To Love and Cherish by Sandy Orton



As far as centerpiece or accent of a design I could go either way. Although I've noticed in most of the projects I've done in the past I've leaned toward accent.


The packing of the last of my apartment stuff - i.e. the kitchen - is going at a slower pace then I had anticipated. Do to the laser surgery on my right leg last Friday to collapse a vein. I didn't realize just how bruised and swollen the entire inside of my right leg would be. Packing the boxes isn't the problem it's that I live on the second floor and I don't know if I can constantly go up and down a flight of stairs carrying boxes without making my leg hurt worse. I do wear a compression stocking at work and while I sleep otherwise I'd be in too much pain to do much of anything but lay flat on my back in bed for 3 weeks.

Anyway, I've put maybe 12 stitches in "Birds" so no update to show. In fact I'll be packing up my Ott Light for another box run ( leg willing ) this Saturday, which means my stitching project will be bagged up and moved as well. So I guess this will be my first and last post for this month.

I finally got around and finished up the last little bit of part 3 on "Birds".  I've been trying to pack up apartment stuff during the week and make a box run on Saturdays to the new place.  So I haven't been thinking about my needlework much this month.

Well the sinus infection that started on the 12th of March lasted almost a week and a half; the 21st I went back to work. I survived but man - was I tired. I hate that stage of a virus when you're not quite over it but you just can't stay home any longer. Cuz you're so crazy bored with lying in bed.

I'm still feeling tired but I managed to do some stitching on "Birds" last week. Not as much as I'd hoped but I'm almost finished with part 3. All I have to do is finish the blue bird, a gold key, and the letters Y and Z. Then it's on to part 2 with the rest of the alphabet, another bird, and the rest of the other tree.


Not the best picture and I didn't want to take it out of the hoop. But at least it shows my progress.

I don't know when I'll be posting another update I feel a relapse coming on again as my nose was constantly running at work today and now my throat is feeling raw again. I've got another prescription of antibiotics and I'm going to start them again today for another eight days. I also need to start boxing up stuff in my apartment as I plan on moving out at the end of April. I decided to head back to Richland where it's cheaper to live and with the gas prices going through the roof I'll be using the transit bus to get to work again.

Well that's all for this Blog Blurb.

Just a quick note - I didn't get much in the way of stitching done over the weekend.  I managed an inch or so on the hill, not enough to bother with an update picture.  I was going to work on it today but I've come down with a sinus infection and basically feel like death warmed over since about 3:30pm.   I hope it clears up enough by morning so I can go to work, if not I'll be sleeping the day away in bed.  I must have caught the virus Saturday night when I was out karaoke singing.