January 11, 2008

Once again, all of my progress on Deftly Wrought was while everyone else was sleeping. I forgot all about the Santa Day SAL and didn't get in any stitches on my ornaments, so I guess I'll do that over the weekend sometime. Although, I must admit that the main reason for not stitching during the day was the fact that I went to sleep at 11am and didn't wake until after 7pm. Since I was falling asleep driving to my cardiologist appointment this morning, I decided not to risk driving to dialysis and went to bed instead.

I had to re-chart the words for the 3rd mini-sampler so that it had my name. I had to make up a couple letters, but most were already contained somewhere in the piece. I also re-charted the spacing of the lines to even them out. The 4th line of text was one row shorter than the others and I spaced the lines so all the words were the same height. I think it looks pretty good, and much more even than the original.

I've also had a(nother) crazy thought and am going to try to get Deftly Wrought totally finished by the time I go in the hospital Thursday morning. Once the mini-samplers are done, all I have is the verse and the border with some cherries. It all depends on how much stitching time I get this weekend while I'm at my mom's with my brother and neice. We're leaving around 10am tomorrow to go to Elkton for the weekend. Wish me luck!