A bit slow

Slowly I have been getting back to threads.  But it has only been hand stitching.  I took a look into my cave, and it is a horrid mess.  My time in there has been spent cleaning, going through stuff, sorting and tossing out what is not needed or wanted.  (Tossing out means finding it a new home elsewhere.)  I have found WIPs that I barely remembered.  My list of to-finish projects has just become longer.  I can't buy anything for at least ten years.  (A bit of an exaggeration, but not by much.)

I am stitching my third piece from this pattern.  The first two have been stitched, but neither has moved to the finish stage.  I cannot start another stitch until I get some finishes done.  Will I heed my words?

This may be turned into a birth stitch.  The name of our Grand-daughter and her birthdate to be stitched across the bottom.  Hmmmm.  Then it will have to be finished.

Her first Christmas stocking is complete.  Sewing this together made me nervous.  I really didn't want to mess it up.  That was a crazy sensation as I have been sewing as long as I can remember.  The pattern is 32 years old and from Current stationary.  

May you all have a wonderful day with your threads.  My cave is calling me for a bit and then football and slow stitching.

Linking to Sunday Slow Stitching at Kathy's Quilts.

 

November, gone!

November has come and gone.  I am so glad.  I did nothing as I had a head and chest cold that had me totally unproductive.  I had all I could do to catch up with my nose, it was running so fast.  Don't feel bad for me, as a retired Nurse Practitioner, life happens.  I have felt better this last 2 weeks but have just started to get into my threads again.  Energy coming back. 

Gibbs and Ziva are enjoying their heated bed.  They would keep me company whenever I was laying down. 

I would like you to meet Margie, the cactus.  She is the Thanksgiving cactus on the right.  She belonged to the sister of my friend Cal.  After Margie, the sister, passed, she was given to me.  She is a wonderful bloomer.  That is Margie Jr. on the left.  A branch fell off and another was started.  I need to give Margie a trim, cut her back a bit.  I am told that Margie could never get her to bloom like this.  I stick her outside all summer until the cool weather begins.  (All my cacti are out for the summer with monitored neglect.)  She is a wonderful bloomer.  I have five large cactus, four different colors and six babies of different growth size and add two other colors.

This is what I have done in November, and it was done after Thanksgiving.  From Shepard's Bush, their Thankful Bag.  I need to sew on the buttons and stitch the pincushion and scissor fob.

Our first Grandbaby was born early December.  Here is her first Christmas stocking.  Today I will stitch on the lace and then put it together.  We will meet her for the first time for Christmas.  We have video spoken with her and her parents.  If I may say, she is beautiful.

I thank all of you for having your blogs.  It was so nice to visit when I had so little energy.   

May you all enjoy your threads today.

Linking to Kathy's Quilts and Slow Sunday Stitching.