Another new start

I like to cross stitch,  I have been doing it for almost 40 years.  I have quite a bit of stuff I have bought over the years to stitch and even paid more then I should have for some of the projects I have.  One of the ones I probably paid to much for is Queen of the Needle by Just Nan.  I have made several of her charts over the years and even entered one in the fair and won a ribbon.  It is actually two samplers put together.  Last Stitches and First Stitches.  One was finished the end of the last millennium and the other was started the first day of the new millennium. 

                

So I started a Stitch a Long with a long time stitching friend, Mayte Bermudez-Garcia.  She is a wonderful stitcher.  I started Queen of the Needle after ordering all the silks and such it called for.  It is such a unique piece that it just called for the silks versus the DMC alternative. 

Here is my progress so far.  I have done the left side of row one

I will be posting regular updates here and over on Instagram Maryskup

Enjoying the quiet

 It's nice and quiet here today.  No having to run around picking up this and that. just a nice quiet Sunday at home with my doggies and hubby.  

I have been a 15+ year player of World of Warcraft and today while sitting around waiting for a rare mob to spawn I got into a conversation with a couple of folks over of all things Craftying.  One was working on a SAL black work project and another was working on knitting a scarf for a friend while they wait.  Sometimes we could sit around for an hour or so waiting for this current rare to show up, and you will have to do this for 6 days to get the reward at the end.  So bringing a craft project to your computer seems like a great way to pass the time.  I will have to find something small and easy to do while I sit here tomorrow and wait for the rare to spawn.

Hope you all have a nice quiet Sunday too :)

Order Of Golden Fries Scavenger Hunt 2021

 Theme: Opposite - Each clue contains at least one word that is the opposite word of what item is needed.

Jandressa, Boomkin Orebalist here, reporting on the Order of Golden Fries 15th Anniversary celebration! This sure is shaping up to be a wonderful celebration! Here is a list of just a few of the highlights! 1. An interesting fact I learned this year: the guild shadow priests like to season their soup with poisoning pepper, but the holy priests preferred the opposite and chose _______ ______. 2. Portalot brought Millhouse Manastorm by for a visit. Millhouse started sneezing due to this familiar powder; it sure lit him up! 3. Yulila thought Hecate could use some help in battlegrounds and provided a homemade concoction that she could use to slip away unseen. Unfortunately, it ended up being appearing dust instead! You can imagine how well that went over... 4. Thankfully, the Fries have a lot of great hunters that avenged Hec quite nicely! When fighting Horde, hunters definitely need to walk softly and carry a light wood mount. 5. While they were all PvPing, Caritha thought to prep for raiding by making some flasks. It didn't work out that way because the alchemy lab caught on fire! That's just what happens when you're cheap and use plastic beakers! I secretly think the fire was set by Arsoness, but as of this reporting time, I haven't been able to find any proof! 6. After everyone was done PvPing, Marwen had limited supplies and couldn't darn anyone's clothes the normal way. Instead, she had to use smooth sinew from the creepy legion hounds. 7. The picnic started up soon after. It was all fun and games until Dadderz brought sour goat juice to the party! 8. Lugging around heavy pressed wood pulp wasn't exactly what Patchulli had in mind when Jitters asked her to take notes on healing strategies instead of playing picnic games. 9. Everyone was asked to bring something fun to the picnic. Lidstrom missed the memo and brought sluggish tin racers instead. 10. Thankfully, the Fries had a fantastic picnic where everyone shared crackers and dry Azsunian goat cheese, followed by Zerlena healing them all from food poisoning. They then finished off the festivities with an amazing parade that made all other guilds jealous!

 Wow I have been a very bad blogger, it has been almost 3 years since I have posted any kind of update.  I have been busy the past little while.  

Of course 2020 was a fun year for most of us and of course I waited the entire year to get Covid-19,  hubby and I got it over the Xmas holiday and I managed to pass it on to most of my family.  I'm sorry for that but thankfully we are all pretty much healthy again and doing well.  Been trying for the past week to find out about the shot and can't get through on the phone to our local public health dept.

Any how, the quilt that was shown in my last post back in 2018 is actually finished and off to my sister. 

I am working on a couple quilts for my grand daughters, I am trying my hand at quilting them on my home machine, I will post pictures here when I'm done. 

 I pulled out and oldie but goodie cross stitch pattern to work on for a bit.  I have decided to try and work on a few UFO's this year.  I don't have any cross stitch patterns that are screaming at me to start it now.  So I will try to work on some older ones and try to get a few finished I hope this year.

This one is Lady of the Flag an OOP pattern by Mirabilia, Nora Corbet.  I have the one designed by her mom on the go as well and will probably pull that out as well.   

I did also manage last year to finish a long standing UFO, over 20 years I'm thinking, by Just Nan, Lady Scarlett's Journey 

My journey starts today

So, my journey begins today.  I have had a weight problem all my adult life, and that is pretty sad to say because next month I’ll be 62 and I am just now coming to the realization that I need to do something and do it now. 

My father in law passed away last week at the ripe old age of 93 and my mother in law is still around at 91 while my parent are no longer here.  My mom took wonderful care of herself but passed away at 69 due to cancer and my dad passed at 80 due to a brain bleed.  I would like to be around longer then this and to do that I have to change things, starting today.

I have been going to Weight Watchers for a few years but kind of paid lip service to the whole thing.  If I had taken it as serious as I should have I would be a life time member by now.  That ends today.  I am going to lose the weight, I am going to get moving more and I am going to become the person I want to be from this moment forward.

So, day one:  Tracked everything so far, have only had breakfast but counted it, tracked it.  Took the dog for a walk, not as far as I plan on going but a good start (and the weather here is beautiful today), and I am drinking water, I learned in a WW meeting yesterday that 70% of Americans are dehydrated.  I drink coffee at breakfast, usually 2 cups, one diet coke with Splenda at lunch, milk and coffee with dinner that that’s about it.  I maybe one of the 70%.  Time to change that.  I do like La Croix water but I seriously don’t think I can drink 5 cans of carbonated water a day so I will have to drink other water as well. 

A day in my Quilty Life

One of the things I have become addicted to over the last several years is Quilting.  I love turning scraps of fabric into a Quilt, big or small doesn't really matter to me at this point, I'm still trying to learn to be better at it.  I have had issues with points matching but I keep plugging away at it.  I look all over the internet for tips and tricks on how to be better at it.  Man are there a lot of tips and tricks.  I got my hubby to buy me a new machine for Christmas to learn machine quilting on.  Nothing fancy with tons of bells and whistles but so far it's working for me.

I also started working on planning my sewing time to try and get more done.  I got the The Quilters Planner to help me get more organized in my sewing and daily life.  There is a Block of the Month challenge going on with other folks who have the planner and I decided to join.  I mean after all you have an entire month to do one block and at the end you will have a quilt.  I am seriously working on the first block.  I found some cute fat quarters packs at Hobby Lobby here in town and got 2 just to be on the safe side.  

 So this is the fabric with all the piece cut to specs

And this is my first ever Split Square Triangles.  I thought they were going to be a pain to figure out but they are easy :)  

On the flip side, still friggin cold here.  We won't warm up until mid week next week.  I know I know I don't live in the North East so I only have to contend with cold, not snow and terrible winds etc.  but there is a reason I stayed in the south :)

Baby it's cold outside

Woke up this morning it was 20 degrees with a windchill of 12, now most of you would think for winter that that would be pretty normal but I live in the south, in the Middle of Georgia to be exact.  I don't think it's suppose to be this cold here.  Anyway it kind of put a monkey wrench in my New Years plans to walk the dog everyday.  I'm sorry I just don't do cold, I will have to find other ways around the inside of my house to get my steps in today.  I have a fabric room that needs cleaning, floors that need mopping so I'm sure I'll get them in.

On the stitching front I have started a new cross stitch, this one will be for my sister Kelley when it's done.  I am working on "The Letter S by Nora Corbett,  She wasn't a fan of the K for Kelley so we went with the last name instead.  When I have more the 10 stitches in I'll post my progress. 

On the quilting front I have a couple of things going on. I fell in love with this Riley Blake fabric a few years ago and bought a few layer cakes.  I finally found a pattern I thought I could do and got distracted by life in general.  When my son and daughter in law told us they were expecting a new addition after the new year I was excited, when they told us it would be another girl I got really excited, now I could use that cute fabric.  Started working on it and our little Haley Belle decided to come 7 weeks early.  I am so not ready for this.  Squares are half done so now I have to kick the sewing into high gear to get this done, hopefully by February when we plan on going up to Chicago to see the family.This the the quilt I'm working on, Disappearing hourglass, this makes me wish I had a lap top instead of just  tablet or phone to follow along with.  Again more pics to follow in a day or two

Hope it's warm where you are and that all your stitches and such are true :)