s is obviously for stitching

I’ve been doing some embroidery as well as cross stitching, though the truth be told, I’ve not been doing very much of either.

The first task has been remedying my daughter’s wardrobe woes. She’s in Friday’s school play, in which the kids all dress up as colors. Rowen was chosen for blue … and is furious about it. “Blue is for boys! The teacher said I have to wear jeans! I don’t want to wear ugly jeans!!” So of course Mama promised to make those jeans pretty. The first pair came out okay, but the second pair I tried to do entirely freehand and that didn’t work out as well. I obviously need to draw the design on first, and then stitch over it. Lesson learned.   I went back to the second pair of jeans and added to the rather sad flowers to try to improve the design and realized that I need new “invisible markers” – mine are getting old and really areinvisible! LOL! As an aside, a nice online place to find illustrations of lots of embroidery stitches is here.

A little tiny bit of cross stitching has been done. So little that I’m embarrassed to show you, so you’ll have to settle for a closeup of the adaptation of Peep, by Prairie Schooler, that I used on a patch to beatify Rowen’s jeans.

I’m not sure what’s going on with my stitching this month. I’ve done so well this year (26 finishes up till now) but all of a sudden, I just can’t seem to get my act together. But hopefully next month will see a change for the better.

S is also for sunshine, something we’ve been enjoying these last few days. Yesterday, Nicky and Rowen made use of the sunshine by honing their biking skills on bigger bikes – Nick gets Max’s old one, and Rowen gets Nick’s outgrown one.

S is also for serious. Here’s our Max, looking serious and solemn (something he’s good at).

And to counteract such a serious photo, s is also for silliness. Here’s a shot of Nicky at this afternoon’s dance recital. His dance class ended today and he said he’d like to sign up for a new one.

And of course, s is for sweet. What can be sweeter than this little fella?

In closing, to answer the Stitching Bloggers question of the week, “What’s your favorite guilty pleasure?”. Hmm. I’m guessing they mean a stitching-related guilty pleasure. I guess in these on-the-wagon days it would be daydreaming about all the things I want to stitch, instead of actually doing something productive with my time. LOL!