Sweaterfest!!

I am delighted thinking of your sweaterfest (even more so in the fact that it will end with me having a fabulous homemade sweater). It sounds like it should become an annual gathering of some kind.

I hope your foot is ok!! That is no fun. Stop getting injured, please.

I have more progress to report!

1) I had some time to stitch this past weekend while visiting friends (and traveling to/from) and made some good progress on the flowers - see? The blue and yellow flowers in the top row are now totally done, and the remaining square in the middle row has many leaves! The last three have leaves that use two different colors of green, and for some reason the difference between the colors is not as striking as what's on the cover image for this design, which annoys me. So that's probably why I'm ignoring them. :)

Even better: The friend I was visiting and her family went crazy over the flowers, and said they would be so happy to have them! So now I will be extra motivated to finish since I know someone wants it. :D

2) I finished the peacock!! See? It's so dense that I feel like I could use it as a frisbee. I am excited to make it into a pencil case for myself. 

3) I have decided that I like making pencil cases so much that I will make some more for Christmas presents. I like having a little stitched panel, and I have found several smaller designs that will be fun (I hope) for various people; I've started pulling thread colors for those, and will report back!

4) I finished the quilt grid, see? I need to put some edging on the top and assemble the bottom (i.e., one or two big seams), but we're getting close. I also reached out to a long-arm person and she was terrific helping me think about possible designs - can't wait to see how this experiment goes!

- Catherine