February 17, 2009

I was stuck at home today because the truck is in the shop getting new front brakes. You'd think I got alot of stitching done, right?

*Snort of disgust* NO!

I read email until Uncle Wes picked me up at 3:00 to go get the truck. Then I read email for another hour and a half until I had to get Kasey and I ready to go to Heirloom Stitchers.

Carol and Kathy were there and Sharon was able to stop by on her way home to show us her beautiful finishes. She even gave Kathy and I each a piece of hand-dyed Jobelan, complete with Thunder (her black Lab) hair! The bit in the middle is where she frogged some black floss, so I'll get that out with a piece of tape. I love how wispy the blue and white is. I'm sure I'll find something to stitch on this!

Kathy showed off a new finish last week and I was drooling over the chart. Imagine my surprise when she gifted the chart and floss to me! She said she bought the chart as my birthday present, but when she saw how cute it was she had to stitch it herself! This is 'Patriotic Hearts & Sampler Stitches' by Sekas & Co. It is definitely going in the "Favorites" drawer of my stash cabinet!

We were also joined by Carol's husband, George and her son, Raymond. Kasey was in Heaven with two admirers! George sat down and she was more than willing to rest her chin on his leg so that he could give her the admiration she thinks she so richly deserves. She was also quite smitten with Raymond, but I had to remind her that she was working and couldn't rough-house.

Carol brought Kasey a box of doggie-goodies as a goodwill gesture. At last week's Border's meeting, I found a tick on Kasey's neck. I couldn't get the whole thing so Carol used my needle-nosed tweezers and dug it out. I think Carol was more traumatized by the incident than Kasey Kay was.

When I reached in my stitching bag to get out Lasseter's Reef I discovered that I left it sitting on my Ergo stand at home! The BRD gameboard was in my bag so I thought "might as well." And then...

It almost became a QSnap Frisbee! But I was in a library and didn't want to scare Kasey with the loud bang and scream of frustration that would have accompanied it. Somehow, in my geniousness (that's sarcasm, btw), I made the flag one stitch too short! Therefore, the right side of the box, that faint line you see going down the length of the picture, was two threads too far to the left! How I managed this feat, I cannot begin to tell you! I frogged the offending line and then put the almost-Frisbee into my stitching bag, out of sight. I spent the last half hour of our stitch-in eating my shredded chicken mini sammies and chatting with Carol and Kathy instead.

So my stitching progress today is...

NEGATIVE 80 +/- stitches.

My truck's brakes are replaced, though! The only good news of the day was that the rotors didn't have to be resurfaced! That saved me 25 bucks!