I was feeling pretty good about being able to finish my Chatelaine before the retreat in just over two weeks, but then I was asked to stitch the larger Friendstitch model again (they are offering two colorways, one more muted and one brighter) and now I'm leaning towards thinking I won't get it done. But maybe I'll be able to finish it at the retreat, which would also be kind of cool, so it's all good. After my last post I did decide to move into the center and do the cross stitches there, then I started the back stitching and specialty stitches, moving from the center outwards:
I received my three latest Tiny Towns from Faye Riggsbee a couple of weeks ago, and she did an amazing job as always:
In non-stitchy news, I woke up to this site outside my bedroom window about a week ago:
She was guarding her baby, who was nestled in a little nook off of my friend's patio next door:
They were there all night, then left around 1pm--I'm sure once the neighborhood woke up and everyone let their dogs out into their yards the mama realized it wasn't the best place to bed her fawn down. It was pretty awesome to see her so close, though.
Hope everyone has a great stitchy week!
Great progress, it's beautiful.
ReplyDeleteOh, those drums are so darn cute.
Mama is pretty, they drink the juice out of our Hummingbird feeders at night, so we have to bring them in now.
Marilyn
How sweet (no pun intended!) that the deer like your hummingbird feeders!
DeleteLovely progress on the Mandela, Melanie: Love the drums, the finisher did an amazing job.
ReplyDeleteLove the deer and babies, the mother knows how to hide her baby, hope the dogs were not unkind to the baby.
Catherine
Luckily, my friend was alerted to the fawn by one of her cats in the house, so she knew not to take her daughter's dog out onto her patio until mama and baby left. 🦌
DeleteAww, what a pretty scene that is. It's so green there! It's so brown here😅the Chatelaine is gorgeous! Most everything looks great on black. Fay is like the original finisher. She's in her own stratosphere!
ReplyDeleteIt's green for now, but it already feels like it's going to start turning brown if we don't get a lot of rain soon!
DeleteOh that mandala is filling in so nicely! Fingers crossed you get it done. The tiny towns look amazing, and I love to see nature that close up!
ReplyDeleteHaving fun filling in the mandala, hoping for a finish soon!
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