Slow Sunday Stitching - March 9, 2025

 Back from church, with bells playing this morning.   The rehearsal was a disaster, but the actual piece in the service was the best we have ever done!   Better that way than the inverse😁!!!

Have had a bit of a setback on the vintage crewel eagle piece.  When I set up earlier this week to start on the pine needles, the pine green yarn just shredded to bits in the needle.  While it visually looked fine, it broke as it was pulled through the ground fabric into bits only a few inches long.  Since the pine needles are a combination of long and short shading plus very long straight and couched work (plus some bullion knots), I absolutely could not fudge it with the compromised yarn.   

Luckily, there are two very good needlepoint shops in Kansas City, so I mailed off a sample of the yarn to the one that I have used several times to replace materials for various vintage kit issues and they had a very close match in Colonial/Paternaya needlepoint yarn in stock.  Basically, it is just a dye-lot difference.   And a hank of that yarn should be here this week.

But in the meantime, I called Rotation #1 done and moved on to the Blackbird Designs piece that is in my "Historic Sampler" slot.   I put in a couple of hours on "Blessings and Kind Wishes" and got the stork's nest and a good bit of the first of the two storks finished.

This isn't a great photo, in real life, the pale grey and cream show up much better on the mottled linen.  I'll try to get a picture with better lighting next week.  

For now, though, I'm going to take a nap - between the shift to Daylight Savings Time and getting up early for church, I'm exhausted.   Linking up with the SSS crew (current link party).