December Day Twenty-Nine

I think I've finally crashed. It's been go-go-go here for Months and today my brain is telling me there's no room for anything more.

I arranged a date in The Palace (aka my sewing room) this afternoon and had absolutely no idea where to start. No it's not the messiness that slowed me down but a total lack of direction. 

I looked through my blog to see what I've been working on this year that I can easily pick up and play with - it seems most things have become tops - which I guess is a good thing but they need quilting, and that's not what I feel like doing just now.

I have no current Leader-Ender project which is often a good pick-me-up.

I have a quilt for the shop I need to start but that needs more thinking before I can sew.

I guess it's post-Christmas holiday mode!

The Chookshed Chatterers are doing a wee challenge this year to help us work through our UFOs (etc). We make a list of 10 projects to work on and each month one is randomly chosen to work on. So I got thinking and started my list, then went and joined Mum upstairs. She's been doing some cross stitch. A Loon design she bought as a souvenir when she was in Canada. There are lots of different shades of grey and it's going to be quite stunning when done —

I attempted some stitching but Miss Tammy wasn't having a bar of it. I had to shut her out of the room!!

Tonight she snuggled down and let me stitch and I finished another design on my new Christmas project —

(Haha Mum's is definitely the more sophisticated stitching!)

ED and family came out again today to get some calf shed shavings for their garden. Vinnie the Greyhound came for a drive too - we kept him outside. Here are he and Tammy meeting each other.

I'm pleased there is a pane of glass between them; he was a little too alert at times.

'til next time,

happy stitches,

Raewyn

December Day Twenty-Seven

Another one of those cruise-y holiday mode days, with leftovers to eat and the Christmas rush behind us.

ED and Lily came for a visit this morning; I took them up to the Ramble Block where YD and I have been planting and they inspected the dahlias and the kumara and jumped from the stumps onto weeds, just to help me out.

We've had over an inch of rain in the last few days, which was very welcome - unfortunately it's not just the plants we want that have had a great growing burst.....the waist high weeds are now chest height...!!

I had a bit of Zoom time today with the Chookshed Chatterers. It's the first time I've been on for a while so it was nice to catch up. I knitted a little - I haven't touched this prem baby singlet for a month and it grew nicely while I was chattering.

I've been turning a blind eye to 'things' taking over my vege garden but this afternoon I had to face reality and stop ignoring the giants within —

An hour or so later I'd made some yummy zuchinni pickle - I used only a fifth of what I harvested as I ran out of vinegar. I might chop some of the zucchini and freeze them for soups etc.

I've made a start on a Christmas stitchery I signed up for at the start of December through Hugs and Kisses. Each day we were sent one Christmas design to fill in a square with. I marked out all the different sized squares last night and started stitching tonight.

Who knows, I may have this done by next Christmas!

'til next time,

happy stitches,

Raewyn