Turtle Trot October, a finish, a start, EE-I-EE-I-O

I have a Turtle Trot finish!



This is Dead of Night by Funk and Weber Designs. On 32ct black linen. If you look at the last time I posted a picture of this, you'll see that weird line of stitches that was above the cats back. I ripped that out and stitched it better. I'm glad to have this one done. I was over on the HOE Exchange site checking out the rules for their new Halloween I exchange. I came thisclose to joining that! I know! Monday is the deadline to sign up. I'm ready to move on from Halloween.

Here's another Trot WIP that I finally dragged out. All it had was the heart and most of the house



What a horrible picture! It looked bright enough when I took it! Here's what it should look like done


I hope to have it finished for Christmas 2014! There's a lot of backstitching on this. Vonna from the Twisted Stitcher brought up tossing a WIP that she lost interest in. I'm starting to feel that way about some of my Turtle Trot WIPs. I know of one that I just dread working on. I have a few stitches on it. I'll make a decision on it soon.

So I had a hankering for a new start



Sheesh! Another bad pic. The color of the house on the chart soo not matches what I'm stitching. I think the discrepancy is from the camera flash when the picture is taken for the charts. Not much I can do. Another thing I've noticed is the finished measurement is so much bigger than what I have! I'm using the called for linen count. It's a mystery to me!

Seeing as I've been a good girl not buying oodles of stash lately, I treated myself to these two



LHN Exodus 20:16 on the left. I snagged this on eBay. On the right is Little Lamb Sleeping by the Drawn Thread.

It's looking like I'll finally have my ONS order sometime this coming week. On the invoice it says if you have not received your order, wait 14 days to contact us. So I contacted them. They emailed me Friday to say my order is on its way. You know, with 123Stitch I never have this problem of them having to backorder anything. Besides, they let you know when something can ship out right on the item page. I like them a lot.

Since Diana has not gotten a hold of me concerning her giveaway win, I'm giving her until this coming Friday to contact me. There's no way to get a hold of her. So, if I don't hear from her then, Saturday I'll draw another persons name on the Giveaway post. So be sure to check this blog this coming weekend.

Well, I gotta cook dinner. I see I'm up to 108 followers. Welcome! Thanks for commenting and visiting, appreciate it!


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Playing catch-up!

Today, I had to put some stitches into my 5, 6, and 7 starts to say I'm caught up! Thursdays is when my 10 hour days start to catch up with me and we got home at 7 p.m. that night anyway, already dark and not good picture-taking light. Enough of the excuses! Here's #7

This pattern is from an old BH&G Christmas issue, 2001. I've had this project kitted up for a long time; time to make it! Do some of you long time stitchers remember Linaida? This is 14ct with DMC threads.

#6 From the November '08 issue of Cross Stitch and Needlework magazine. On 28ct Lambswool Jobelan with DMC threads.

#5 Unofficial title is the Ark Sampler. On 28ct tea-dyed linen with just 4 DMC colors! I like this one! From a JCS '88 issue.

I planned on starting PSS's Queen's Crowns for my 13th start. However, I've been unable to find the 36ct Vt Maritime from LL at a decent enough price. So I"m moving everything up on my CJC list and I've picked Candy Corn by With thy Needle & Thread in place of Crowns. I ordered the Gold WDW linen from eBay so I should receive it in a week.

Well I'm hanging in there. Still haven't heard whether the insurance company got the test results. I'll be doing some calling on Monday. I'm really hoping they'll see that I need surgery. Fingers crossed!

I'm going to sit and stitch on the mitten while watching the Phoenix Coyotes vs New York Islanders hockey game. It's already dark out here! You all have a great evening!