I was on track to finish Miss Cherry Blossom before the 15th, but a couple of things have made that look less likely. The first was part 4 of Frosted Pumpkin's Welcome to the Circus being released last Thursday, which I completed on Saturday:
The second was a Heart in Hand model that arrived Saturday afternoon. That will probably take me most of the rest of the week to finish, then hopefully I can get back to Miss Cherry Blossom. I have all of the white and lightest pink in her skirt done, and I'm hoping that filling in the rest of the colors should go relatively quickly:
I wanted to have her done by the 15th in case the next two designs in this series are released that day, but I wouldn't even receive the charts until close to two weeks after that date, so I should still have plenty of time to finish this one first.
In other news, we had an extremely close call with disaster last week, when half of one of our 24-year-old trees came down during an early morning storm. Somehow, it managed to avoid our house, except for one little branch that just kissed a gutter:
We're having it assessed in a couple of days; I was hoping that we might be able to save the remaining half, but that seems unlikely if it was a lightning strike. It's really sad to lose a tree that we planted when we first moved into our home, but I'm so thankful that it didn't hit our house!
Hope everyone has a great stitchy week!
