Hope everyone in the US had a wonderful Independence Day, and those in Canada had a good Canada Day celebration as well. Happy Birthday to our respective nations!
My church traditionally has had a huge (standing room only) service of hymns and prayers with patriotic music and choirs from all over the area and a local VIP giving a speech every year on the Fourth. The last one prior to this week was in July 2019 and loosing that service was one of the things I hated the most about the pandemic. Well, we reinstated that service with a great 'bang'. And the bells played for it. We played my favorite version of "Amazing Grace" as part of the prelude and then joined the organ, brass and massed choirs for the closing hymn 'Finlandia" with the bells and brass parts written by our director. Donald is so talented! The speaker was one of the Kansas Supreme Court justices. The service was posted on the Grace Cathedral Topeka You Tube. (Hopefully that link works, since embedding did NOT.)
That's the last thing for the bells this season. We are on break until early September now. I'll miss ringing, but it's nice to have a summer break.
I had an opportunity to go to a crafting group this week, and even though I have said that beading is not a travel appropriate project, I took my Mill Hill Santa any way since I figured that a quiet coffee shop had a fairly low 'spillage probability', and indeed no beads went astray. I am the halfway point on the beading with the rest of the 'snow' crystals and the two types of beads in the tree left to go.
I wish the sparkle and dimension of the beading showed up better in a photo. I'm really liking this one and it's getting close to a finish!
And I also got the SAL section for July completed for the Birdhouses SAL. See the
changeover post for a close up. I love the way the gull is eyeing the 'catch of the day' with bad intent. LOL.
Getting July done necessitated moving the Q Snap. So here's the piece all laid out. (Pardon the wrinkles.) Just two more sections to go (August and September) and I sure hope it meets up in the middle!!! That's always a concern when you work in from the edges! Everybody keep your fingers crossed for me.
I loved hearing the bells play at a church I used to attend. Your month by month project is fun! Santa is getting close to being done too. Happy stitching this week! Gail at the cozy quilter
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a lovely church service, and so glad you were able to bring it back! The Santa is really fun, too. Love seeing your progress on the birdhouse project - fingers crossed here!
ReplyDeleteFingers are crossed! I love your Mill Hill Santa! It sounds like that was a wonderful patriotic service.
ReplyDeleteYour bird house stitching is so pretty.
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