It wasn't a white Christmas Eve, but the Twelfth Day of Christmas sure is! The Midwest US has a winter storm in progress. Further west, there's a blizzard, but here we got about a half inch (a bit over a cm) of ice first with 'freezing rain and winter mix" most of the day yesterday. There's about an inch of snow on top of it with four or five more forecast, so I'm not going anywhere today. There's a pot roast in the crock pot and plenty of stitching to do! (ETA: More snow than originally forecast; the blizzard made its way east to us and we ended up with 14 inches / 35.5 cm! That's the third highest single day snowfall since the weather service started keeping records in this area in the 1880s!)
Taking a look at what I accomplished this week, the FFO first. I finished the knitted hat. Peppermint Candy LOSY Hat (link to my Ravelry page). The color is a bit dulled out in this picture because the light yesterday was terrible (see note on winter storm above). Colors in last weeks in-progress picture are much closer.
And even though I didn't do much in the way of travel stitching out and about, my grandson and I did watch a couple of movies this week, so the current Mill Hill Santa is up to 730 stitches. 14 count perforated paper means I do not need magnification to stitch, so perfect for TV watching as well as car stitching.
And the first item up in the first 2025 Rotation is the Blackbird Designs "Blessings and Kind Wishes" Loose Feathers #31. I was going to work on more of the border but decided I probably should put in some of the lettering on the left side just to be sure of my count. I am glad I did; I ended up having to fix a couple of the leaves, which would have thrown off the bottom of the wreath. All fixed now and I'll alternate lettering and wreath for a while.
When I got to the big star, I was disappointed to notice that my skein of WDW "Basil" was more grey/green/brown than the cover photo showed. It had very little purple at all, so for the star and the grapes, I'm substituting WDW "Amethyst". The brighter purple makes me happy.
Linking up with the SSS Crew (
current round up). Stay warm (or cool depending on what hemisphere you are in) everybody!
Stitching and knitting with supper in the crock pot…a perfect way to pass the time while the storm rages outside! Gail at the cozy quilter
ReplyDeleteBeautiful knitted hat and lovely cross stitch projects
ReplyDeleteI love my crock pot too, for winter cooking. But its summer here, although you wouldnt think so, wind and rain for several days. Pretty stitching.
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