How does work in one room........

turn into this!!!!  Granted the new range and dishwasher have nothing to do with the bathroom upgrade except for the timing.....

Mr. Wonderful keeps saying for me to pick out whatever I want......while you may think that is a  fabulous driver's seat to be in........to me it puts the pressure on that if something ends up running amok it is on me.  Counting the days when everything is back in place.   Tiling started mid-week on the shower.  Yay!  I never thought I'd hear myself say I am dying to clean my house!  Seriously though, I am grateful we are getting this done, grateful we have to means to pay for it, grateful we are doing it before there was an emergency with broken pipes in the walls, grateful I have a roof over my head........things could be so much worse.   What's a bit of mess anyway?      Can't clean, guess I will take one for the team and  suffer through with with needle and thread and maybe a glass of pinot........

But wait, of course, Buddy Cat needs to be front and center on this reno.

As for stitching.......I have finished my pre-stitch for a class with Beth Seal, my pre-stitch for a class with Isobel of The Primitive Hare, finished a tinted towel from a guild class and finished a winter themed ornament for exchange at an upcoming class.

This is for the  ornament exchange at the Primitive Hare class.   This is one of Lizzie Kate's Snow Bells.  I hope it is a FFO by the end of the weekend.

And  I caved and have a new start.   I have been looking at cardinal patterns for a few years.   I found this one earlier this month at Salty Yarns.    Fell in love with the sparkly fabric.  Fingers crossed that the fabric looks AOK when the piece is finished.
That's a lot of DMC colors.

Time to drop back an punt though......I don't have any Kreinik #032 blending filament.   Better get on the phone to Salty Yarns.

I did pick out three more projects to add to the cardinal to round out the four projects for this year's EGA challenge.   We pick four projects to concentrate on.   At each monthly meeting a number is drawn and the corresponding project is our focus for the month.   I was really able to clean a lot up from my UFO basket last year.  

ABC by Jardin Prive'

Betsy Morgan's Virgin Queen Stitching Wallet - love doing blackwork

Betsy Morgan's Pioneer Girl's Etui - fell in love with this one but as usually, just completed the class portion and this was set aside.  Betsy Morgan is retiring in 2020.   I have a class with her in April 2020 so I want to get to work on these two just in case I have any questions about either one that I can ask in April.

At my September DVHGS Meeting, we learned about tinted linens.   Following the discussion we were instructed how to create our own.   Mine will be all done when I get the back stitch in.

Thanks for stopping by and........keep on stitching.