Monday, April 18, 2016

Skyros Island Schooner - Week 7

Ola Stitchers!  The fill in of the sails continue!  I have officially completed pages 5 and 8!  Pages 6 & 7 are still works in progress.

Pages 6 & 7 close up.


I get so excited when I am able to move my scroll rods. Which I will probably be able to do by the end of the week.  But I know under these colorful sails, is the hull of the schooner.  Which is more fill in! 

I estimate this project will be finished by the middle of May.   Thank God!

Yesterday I made the decision to bake some more quick bread. Strawberry.  


I think my mom will like them.  Especially since I found out she doesn't like blueberries. Although I will tell you the strawberry bread would put someone in a sugar coma!  These loaves are super sweet.

Did you know you can hull and take leaves off of strawberries using a drinking straw?  I showed my mom how to do it. But when I looked when I turned around from mixing the batter, she was still using a paring knife. Guess the straw was too new age for her.

Last week we were able to pick up the wine crates for the coffee table.  I thought this would be a great project that the daughter and I could do together.

However the husband has said, he wants to do it.  Bad, bad, bad idea! Don't get me wrong, he's very handy.  But he's the worst procrastinator in the hemisphere. I'm still looking at the boxed bathroom vanity for our basement bathroom. Uninstalled.  My two table lamps, that stopped working.  Bought the parts to repair them, and they sit disassembled in our garage. Not to dismiss the random things that require a run to either the dump or Goodwill.  I prefer to live my live my life by the motto "be like Nike, and just do it!"

Not to say my hubby isn't a wonderful person and doesn't have wonderful intentions. He just hasn't come to the realization he can't do it all. I think it has something to do with he doesn't really like anyone to use his tools and many power gadgets.

I'd probably feel the same way about the use of my serger or seeing machine.  Except no one else sews in the house. Plus, I took shop in high school and being single for 10 years between marriages so I learned how to do things for myself!

Ok enough venting.  Daughter's graduation announcements came in, so I have to get addresses together for her.  It's coming up fast. Think I'll just let her borrow my phone since most of the addresses are there.

Well that's all for this week!  Happy stitching!



7 comments:

  1. I just founds your blog today. Where do you get your patterns? I can't find a store in my area. But, I also haven't found an on-line store selling the types of samplers you've been doing. Thanks for the info. Jane

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    1. Great question Jane and thank you so much for finding my blog! They are numerous places to find sampler charts. I belong to several FB groups, which is made up of stitchers that love samplers. You get to see a lot of different styles made by designers from all over the world. But what you like. Most stitchers put all the info on their FB posts (i.e. Sampler name, company/designer name, fabric used- color, ct. Plus type of threads.
      My favorite websites to order from would be 123stitch.com and Stitch and Frog. But I'll also buy off of eBay. You might say I'm a cross stitch floozie, since I like to spread it around. Lol I am also extremely lucky that I have a brick and mortar LNS within 35 minutes from me. Where I can actually spend time pursing all their wonderful supplies. It's call In Stitches, in Alexandria, Va. They will also do telephone orders if you find a sampler you like.

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  2. Beautiful progress on your piece. Love it! The strawberry bread looks divine, by the way. Yum!

    I know what you mean about procrastinating, and of course it is all said with love. I am guilty of it too.

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    1. Thank you so much Stitcher S. I need the encouragement, these pieces with so much fill in, aren't my piece of cake. I keep telling myself, it's a gift, it's a gift!

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  3. Beautiful progress on your piece. Love it! The strawberry bread looks divine, by the way. Yum!

    I know what you mean about procrastinating, and of course it is all said with love. I am guilty of it too.

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  4. You have made great progress on the fill-in, Pam. Thanks for the giggle about the drinking straw to hull a strawberry only to discover your Mom reverting back to the paring knife. Reminds me of my Gram!

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    1. My mom is a real hoot sometimes. It always surprises me of the things she'll dig her feet into the sand on.

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