Quite a Bit of Christmas and a Fruity Finish

Gentle Friends, over the past week I've been baking and mailing out Christmas Treat boxes near and far... this year I made up a few dozen of each of these...

Spicy Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies

Christmas Butter Cookies and Oatmeal/Coconut Cookies

and lots of Pralines...

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On Friday evening we headed downtown to Davis Symphony Hall for a performance of...

Handel's "Messiah" - this was our view of the soloists, musicians, and the Chorus.  It was so nice to go to a live performance and we love this piece of music and really enjoyed the evening!!!

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Yesterday I finished up my year-long SAL from Modern Folk Embroidery... here's the finished piece...

"The Fruits of Plenty" - Modern Folk EMbroidery

40ct Moonglow from PTP

CC - Wavy Navy and GAST Morning Glory

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I also worked a bit on MCEV and got the house filled in with "Red Pear"... here's a snap...

... now I've got to get this sucker finished up for Christmas...  

there's lots of white snow stitching fill on the hill still to do...

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That's about it for today sports fans.  

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edgar

A Little Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends, I stitched up as much of Fruits as I can until the last section shows up...  here's a snap...

... I also got the border done on MCEV...  here's that snap...

... both shots are on the dark side, but you get the idea.  That stick thing in the vase is going to be some sort of tree...  

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edgar

A Little Blue Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends, I picked up on November's section of Fruits...here's a snap...

.. I also made a start on the December section.  Since the dark-blue outline mirrors Octobers it was an easy jump...I'll get in the last bottom triangle and the corner piece before I start in on the lite blue areas...

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edgar

A LIttle Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends, stitchin' away on both pieces this past week... first up Fruits SAL...

... finished up October's part...

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....then when I got October wrapped up I pulled out Mighty Acorn

... I finished up the top section and the border outline... I was very happy when everything met up without having to fudge and or frog any stitches!!

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edgar

A Little Stitchin'

Gentle Friends,  as I turned another year older this week I reflected on all the stitching I've done over the years and how much I still want to do in the future.  I came to the conclusion that if never another chart was released I would still have too much stash to ever complete in my lifetime... yet I still accumulate and dream....  here's a bit more stitched on Fruits...

... I've gotten the bulk of the dark blue in and even a bit done on November...

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I have lined up a couple of new pieces for the New year that I want to start.  They will be both in silk - a floss I really enjoy working with and haven't much worked with this year.... so stay tuned!!

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edgar 

A Little Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends stitching away on Mighty Acorn... here's the progress...

... and since it's the beginning of October I received and started in on the dark blue of Fruits... here's a snap of it still in the Q-snap...

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edgar

A little Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends, this morning has been so hectic...here is where I've landed on Fruits...

.. finished up the blue fill along the border... and just a bit into the December section.

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edgar

A Little Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends, I worked some on Paradise...  here's a snap...

... and then on the 1st I got September's section... and put down Paradise and dug out Fruits... and as I always do I am laying in the dark color first...  here's a snap...

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edgar

A Very Little bit of Stitchin'

 Gentler friends, I was just not motivated this week to do much stitching at all... here is where I am now working on the lighter blue at the moment...

... I also have to decide which one of I think six-building variations I want to stitch in the center octagon...  I'm leaning towards either the windmill or swiss cottage... I saw a bunch of snaps on Instagram of other stitchers' pieces that are at this point which was rather inspiring!!

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edgar

A Little Stitchn'

 Gentle Friends, stitching away this week on both pieces... here's a snap of Paradise...

 I've blocked in the black line around the bottom image and finished up the little hill on the left... 

and Fruits is moving along...

... with a little start of the dark blue.

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edgar

A Couple of Stitches

 Gentle friends, stitching away on Fruits and Paradise this past week. I finished up the July Section on Fruits and got the border in for the bottom of Paradise... here are a couple of snaps...

                                  

... this is the entire piece as it is for the moment... it's coming along nicely!!

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I'll print off the August part for fruits and get to work on that at some point this week.  I think I want to finish up the little hill with the sheep first.

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edgar

A Little Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends, I got some of the light blue stitching in on Fruits... here is a snaperoo...

... although there is some stitching in the open space to the right I am going to hold off until next month to stitch this, it's not much more than vines and leaves so I'll stitch it in when I get the next piece of the chart.

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edgar

A Little Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends, here are a couple of snaps of the stitching this week...

.. I completed the scripture part of Paradise... and...

... got busy on the dark blue parts of the next part on Fruits...

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I'm not sure how much stitching I'll get done this week as I smashed my thumbnail against the dryer yesterday morning and it's throbbing to beat the band... the little bit of stitching on the dark blue I got done was very uncomfortable so we'll see as the week wears on.

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edgar

A LIttle Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends, I finished up the rest of the 6th part of Fruits over the weekend... here's a snaperoo...

...  I made a major counting mistake in the big pale blue section and had to frog quite a large section... so I was surprised when I finished the entire section up and can now pack this away until the 1st of July when Part 7 arrives - and  - since I took off a few days around the 4th I'll get a good head start right out of the gate.

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That's about all that is going on around here... except we did get a tremendously good piece of news at last weeks Zoom Meeting.... it is for certain that our office is closing up and we are taking a much smaller space AND that we are all getting to work from home permanently.  I am super happy about that... no commuting, no fighting for parking, no Muni or Bart  (the local public transport systems here in the Bay area) so from now on I will be at my dining room table for work and Zoom meetings!!

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edgar

A Little Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends, stitching away this week on Fruits... here's the progress so far...

...I completed that snowflake-looking motif - it looked so odd half done... once I get the light blue filled in I'll get back to Paradise. Thanks for stopping by do stop again.  Stay Safe!

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edgar

A Little Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends, I wanted to finish up the May section on "Fruits" before posting a snap... 

... it's a bit wrinkled and not as smooth as I would have liked but you get the idea.  As you can see I stitched past the actual "section" for May... It just drives my nuts to stop mid-line or where I can see the leaf or vine continue... so I just continued on stitching... that half-bird on the mid-right is the actual demarcation between the May and June sections so you can see where I just kept on stitching along.

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That's about all for now sports fans.  I'm just about finished with the Christmas Present stitch and will get it to the framers as soon as it's done.  Thanks for stopping by do stop again!

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edgar

A Little Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends,  just an update snap of Fruits of Plenty today...

... I finished up all the Morning Glory blue and really like how this is working out.  You can see that I stitched past the actual charted part for the section but that's how I roll...

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edgar

A Few Flowers, a Little Stick'n and a Little Stitch'n

 Gentle Friends, we made it down this year to get a look at Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden in Golden Gate Park... here are some snaps...

.. although just a bit blown being so close to the ocean they are still beautiful and we so missed the garden last year it was nice to get to visit this year.

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This morning I headed down to get my first shot...

... so it's one down one to go!

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The stitching for the week... I got a bit more on Peaceful Paradise done...

...and I received the fourth part of Fruits of Plenty and so I got busy over the weekend...

... working on getting the dark blue done and this is where I left off last night.

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edgar

A Little Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends,  I finished up the third part of "Fruits" and here's a snaperoo...

... it's just bee-bopping along now.... after wrapping up this part I picked up Little Birds... and here's a snaperoo of what's gotten done to date... 

... one more big motif and a few smaller ones then it's the house ...and once I get the house finished up I'll make the decision about the replacement bit for the middle.  I've narrowed it down to three pieces I think might work but haven't absolutely decided and probably will not until the time I have to start stitching.  I've also landed on my next project.  Since I'm trying to stitch from stash a bit more this year I've pulled the bulk of the floss and the chart, and I'll pick out a piece of linen from the linen pile.  It's a great oldie and one I've wanted to stitch for quite a while....but you'll just have to wait and see until after this one is a "done deal"  - and -  I've made at least a little start.

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edgar

A Little Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends,  I stitched on Fruits this last week and got the dark blue done...

.. it's a bit wonky due to still being in the q-snaps, but you get the idea.  Now it's on to the lite blue.

 I'm really liking this SAL !

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That's about it for today sports fans, nothing else really going on around here.  

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edgar