progress...

This is the "pre-lake cabin" weekend view. The Monday night stitch group have been invited to spend Sat. and overnight at a "cabin" on Lake Gaston in NC. I"m thinking I'll work on this the whole time---only 2 colors makes for lots of time to talk. So I wanted to post it and will hopefully have completed a remarkable amount over sat/sun--time will tell! Lovely weekend to you all.

The design of the green WIP (seen in post below)

I've had requests for the name of the "all things green" pattern (below)---Peggy I couldn't find your email address---sorry.   It's from Sampler Cove and is called Kaleidoscope Flower. They stitched it in overdyed gold tones on black--so if you look for it, keep that in mind.   I'm doing 28ct over 2, using Crescent colors "Balsam Fir"...speaking of which. Since our local cstitch store closed its doors at the end of this year I had the novel experience today of realizing I didn't have enough of this color, so had to go online to order it!   That of course meant I could't riffel through the colors and pick out exactly the right skein that has more of the lighter green rather than very dark.  And the other shocker was that the postage cost more than the thread ...so  I can now sympathize with all of you who haven't been fortunate enough to have a good store close to you.

Lover of all things green!

Although I'm concentrating on The 12 Days of Cmas for the Up for the Challenge a girl needs a break from all those leaping lords and piping pipers I can tell you...so this is restful isn't it?! Anyway I got all excited, then decided to unfold the pattern just to see if I'd be finished next week and what to my wondering eyes should appear....but the other 3/4th of the pattern. Who knew ..when it was all hidden away in carefully folded folds. Oh well...what would the day be like without a little challenge...happy stitching!