June 2019
I have been so sick with a nasty bug my husband brought home. He got it first and has had it for most of a month. I got it a week after he did. It was one of those really nasty bugs with a horrible cough. We both ended up getting bronchitis really bad, sinus infections, and he got ear infections too. I'm just now starting to feel like I might live.While I was sick I didn't want to work on my current project. I'm knitting a baby blanket for a baby that was premature. I really don't want to give him this bug but I also don't want to mess it up because my brain is matted with snot.
I decided to work on some small cross stitch kits. I have this one piece that I found that my mom made. I have it in a shadow box that I made when she passed away. Recently, when I was looking through a box of things that were hers I found the pattern. Hers looks like the picture but I had to use what I had in my stash. The chicken looks grey in the picture but the colors used say they are light blue, medium blue, and white. I'm not a big chicken person but I know I've never seen a blue chicken. I really didn't have any of the right colors other than black, white, and red and maybe the yellow so my chicken looks different. |
| 16th Finish, 3rd in 2019 |
I ordered that fabric on Amazon and it sure looked a lot darker in their photo. I was pretty disappointed when it arrived and I saw the actual color. I'll have to try again to find a brown fabric that will look more like burlap.
I spent some time looking online to see if I could find more kits like this and I found two on ebay that I got for $4 together. One is a bag of sunflower seed and the other is peas. I made the sunflower one first because I love sunflowers. I did make a small mistake and missed a few back stitches on the inside of the D but when I make it again I'll do a lot better. I think I'd like to add some french knots on the middle of the sunflower next time and it will be fun trying different floss colors. I made the pea one next and when I sewed the two pieces together I forgot to just sew the long sides before flipping. I sewed the bottom too so it only has one red seam. That's okay, I'm sure I'll be making a bunch of these. They are all filled with lavender and are magnets. I'm going to keep looking for more of these kits on ebay. I know there are several more that are bags of stuff like this.
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| 14th finish, 1st in 2019 |
15th finish, 2nd in 2019
