Slow Sunday Stitching - October 3, 2021

 Things were reasonably calm this week, other than having to take my car in for a $2K repair (ouch).  The more bells and whistles, the more that can go wrong and computer chips in automobiles are EXPENSIVE!  But I'm back on the road and good to go.  I do want to replace this vehicle at some point, but not yet.  I'd like to get a couple more years of no car payments.

On the crafting front, I have remembered why a timed rotation works for me.  If I set a goal for a certain amount of stitching instead, it leads to stitchy procrastination!  Back in July/August, I set a goal to finish the right side frittelaria and parrot motif on Dutch Beauty, and it took me until THIS WEEK to get it done!  There were weeks where I didn't put a single stitch in.   I deal much better with my 10 hour chunks.   I've (re)learned that lesson.

I restarted my rotation with Dutch Beauty as the first 10 hours.   I still had one big flower and one parrot to do when I started on this rotation slot, and getting the motif done took me a bit over three hours.   I moved the qsnaps and am now working along the bottom border that remains (three pages worth), filling in the quatrafoil leaves and buds.  

I did take a break from Dutch Beauty over the last couple of days for the monthly Blackbird weekend SAL.  Still working on Moon Garden.   I put in some time on this one yesterday and will be working on it today after I check out the SSS crew (link to current roundup).

#LunchHourCrafting continues to be Lucy Boston's "Patchwork of the Crosses".  Still so much to do.  Here's the second of the connecting blocks.  Like I said last week, they all look the same.   I figure the only way to show progress is to take pictures of all of them.   

Got several inches done on the Sock Yarn blanket, about 12 inches (30 cm) to the next corner.  I've used two of the seven balls/cakes of yarn that I made out of the leftovers from the woven coverlet.  There were two balls and two cakes that were about 50 grams each, and three balls between 25 and 35 grams.  I'm using them smallest to largest.  

I sourced all the materials for my brother in love's Christmas Stocking.  (He's a 'Brother in Love' instead of a 'brother in law' because they aren't married yet.  Kimi says there's no hurry since they won't have any children.  They've been together for ten years now, which is longer than some marriages last!)

The colors are deeper than Kimi's Christmas Stocking - burgundy instead of bright red, and pine green instead of bright green.   The base color is as similar as I could get, considering that the one I'm 'matching' is 40 some years old!