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It had been rainy but we seem to be back into a dry spell with no rain in the foreseeable future. Very cool overnights. Day times it's been changeable- I think that's the word to describe the weather- one minute dark and cloudy and the next a little sunshine. There have been two frost warnings so far with one night recording 0.6 C so the season is easing in. A pretty sign of such is the fall Aster like flowers are in bloom. What a pretty shade of lavender.

 Hello again and thanks so much for stopping by. I heard the Barred Owls hooting early morning around 4 am and stayed awake till they finished about half an hour later. Then I slept in till 9, so late for me that Tony woke up enough to ask if I was alright.  

Last fall I watched a wonderful moment...an adult male Cardinal was feeding two young ones in the big fir in the back yard. It took a long time to get this photo and I never did capture a good photo of the three. But here are the ...

Well, there is no doubt fall is coming and it's set in a little early here. Single digits overnight for the last week but everyone is saying how welcome this is. I don't think there's ever been such gladness to have summer over. 

Meanwhile, Tony calls this little guy below my trained squirrel or my very smart squirrel that has trained me. He appears on the back deck most days and, of course, I give him a handful of sunflower seeds. When he first appeared here, he was skinny and ragged looking. Now he appears to be ...

No change in the numbers.

I finished a small stitch project called Chickadee.

A friend of a friend was destashing, and my friend gave me several items. I think this kit came from Big Lots. The floss was actually crochet thread, something I’ve never used for stitching. It worked fine, but I switched it out for DMC for the backstitch.

I also made a few wonky house blocks because the idea wouldn’t go away.

The inspiration came from a broken bathroom floor tile at work, which shows that inspiration can come from anywhere. There is no pattern. The ...

When I went to the cabin, I took several projects with me to work on. So what did I work on… My hexies…not really. I did a few in the car on the way up and that’s it. I am also bringing my new stitch alongs. Both of them start on September 1st. I’ll likely …

Cross Stitch Update: September 5th, 2025 Read More »

I'm afraid that this post is yet, another, catch-up post which will be strangely reminiscent of that old beginning-of-school assignment we all remember: "How I Spent My Summer Vacation"! I do have lots of show and tell, bear with me. As the weather allowed, and it wasn't too hot, I spent many an afternoon stitching out on the porch where the light is perfect!These are a sampling of the

I'm afraid that this post is yet, another, catch-up post which will be strangely reminiscent of that old beginning-of-school assignment we all remember: "How I Spent My Summer Vacation"! I do have lots of show and tell, bear with me. As the weather allowed, and it wasn't too hot, I spent many an afternoon stitching out on the porch where the light is perfect!These are a sampling of the

All quiet just now here at the Wooden House. Morning chores all done including the best and most important one- a big walk about with Ned and Petey. Heavy rain showers are forecast for most of the rest of the day which are much welcomed. It felt marvelous outside in the much cooler temperatures. Even the dogs were friskier. Ned especially doesn't like heat which may have something to do with his very dark brown coat. 

Here is a side view of the overgrown Hydrangeas outside my sewing room windows with Petey taking his morning sniffs. These bushes are ...

I was hoping to report that my cross stitch sampler was finished, but as I was nearing the home stretch, I encountered more mistakes in the pattern.

The row of dark green stitches below the first line of the large alphabet, while centered, did not start and stop in the same place.

This bothered me enough to cut and glue three pieces of graph paper together to obtain the needed length and re-chart the row.

Likewise with the row of pale yellow satin stitches that came next: starting and stopping at different places in the stitching sequence in addition to ...

I’m gone for the day…it was a scheduled away day, so no worries that I’m hurt or not feeling well. I am writing this advance. That means I don’t have anything current to show you today. Instead, I thought I would give you a brief overview of how I started cross-stitching. I know I started …

Cross Stitch Update: August 29th, 2025 Read More »

We had a terrific rain, thunder and lightening storm on Wednesday, breaking the drought. It didn't rain nearly enough though. And the heat remained steady throughout, no cool down at all. But then on Thursday, it dropped down to the mid 20's and it felt heavenly outside. 

Late season perennial flowers are in bloom...the pink and white hardy Phlox...If I had my time back, I would have planted many more of these to have more bright flowers to enjoy after all the lilies die off. 

 

My needle and linen didn’t meet much this week. I had company last weekend. Then over the week, I’ve been packing to go away with Arnie, watching grandkids, and working. On top of that, I had doctor appointments on Tuesday locally and on Thursday in Iowa City. We were up bright and early for the …

Cross Stitch Update: August 22, 2025 Read More »

Our next big stitch along project is Oh Joyous Day from Blackbird Designs. Liz from the Stitchery Nook sent my fabric and the threads that I needed, so one day, when I was trying to take it easy but still accomplish something, I kitted it all up. Kelli, my daughter, showed me something that she …

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My cross-stitch life is still on a slow crawl. I am getting a lot of visitors. My kids are coming home to help me. Friends have been stopping by. Once they all go I have to feed myself, give some time to Rosie, and write blog posts. It’s awesome to see everyone. In turn, my …

Cross Stitch Update: July 15th, 2025 Read More »

August has brought welcome cooler temperatures here this week to the Ottawa Valley, Canada. The season of growing things with all the greens and the buzzing things is at its height...this meadow below was literally abuzz, so much so I would not walk through it. In particular, there was a large fly there we used to call stouts as kids. Have no idea what exactly is a stout but we were afraid of them as they could bite. 

As I’m finishing up some cross-stitch pieces, I’m thinking about what’s to come. When I went to the retreat, I brought along my Summer Schoolhouse patterns from With Thy Needle and Thread. I was hoping that something might urge me to work on these. I’ve forever wanted to stitch these and actually put starting them …

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What to do, what to do!! I will talk about that in a bit. 

I was woken up by the ponding of nails going into the roof. Patrick had the roof redone today on the garage. They arrived around 5 am to get started and it was nice they didn't start making a ton of noise till 7:30 am. I got up and was waiting on Val. 

Val stopped a few minutes before I had to leave for physical therapy. She picked up the museum's information and the travel iron I forgot to take to the fair ...

I didn’t do much stitching. I had doctor appointments, kids, and work all on my docket. Right now, on the pain killers, my mind just doesn’t think the best. I can no longer multitask. I would love to go pick up another project, but it’s so much easier to just pick up my Humming of …

Cross Stitch Update: August 8th, 2025 Read More »