Slow Sunday Stitching - May 25, 2025 AND 2025 Rotation #3, Slot #2 (Not Counted Thread)

Another decent, but not outstanding week.   Lots of end of the school year stuff, graduations and promotions that cut into the stitching time.  Including Alexis being promoted from 6th grade to middle school.  Yes, she's still in the boot from her broken foot, but it's a lighter walking cast now.  At least she's done with the crutches.

I'm managing to keep up with the Temperature Stitches Daily Log and the Mead Dragon - I'll have month end pictures of both of them next week.

The travel project/charity knitting is coming along.  I'm about halfway to the crown decreases.   

And the big news is that the Eagle is DONE.  See the Finish post for all the details on the piece and its history.  

This means that I will be moving on to a new project in the 'not counted thread' category when this slot comes around again in the rotation.  I have a number of projects that are candidates for a new start - two kits, two more of the 1940s buttonhole cutwork projects that I inherited from my mom, a vintage needlepoint kit that my mother-in-law brought me back from Germany (along with THREE German knitted lace books) and a miniature carpet in silk gauze.  But I think I'll start a project that was gifted to me by a co-worker about a year before I retired.

Wilma, my co-worker, came from a family of needleworkers; she is a quilter, and her sister did all kinds of embroidery.  When her sister passed away, she inherited her sister's stash.  She didn't need all the DMC threads, so she offered them to me at yard sale prices.   Of course, I said 'yes, please'.   When she delivered them to me, she had put all the threads in a nice fabric tote with a stamped embroidery design unworked on the front.   

The stitch guide was tucked into the bag.   I like the suggested colors, and I think I'll line it when it's done to protect the stitches and make it a little sturdier.   I need to dig out one of my hoops for this project and finish getting the floss into Floss Away bags so everything is set up and ready to start when the "not counted thread" slot comes around again.   

I give credit to the SSS crew for all the cheerleading on the Eagle.  You folks got me off high center on that project - big hugs to everyone.   Here's this week's link party to see all the great projects that people have on the go.