Visitor

I really do hope this visitor will stay in the backyard and keep a lot of distance from my stitching!

This morning I got Frosty Knotgarden back from the framer. He did a wonderful job!

Frosty Knotgarden

I have enjoyed stitching this beautiful garden mandala very much. I think it is always a bit sad having finished such a great project. Something like saying goodbye to a dear friend. But we'll meet again when it is framed and hanging on the wall of my practice room.

More stash!

As you can see both my kits for Winter Watergarden and Hummingbird Sparkly Garden arrived! So many beautiful threads to fondle! And the beads and crystals are lovely too! Cindy of European Crosstitch Company always makes great packages of the kits; it is a real pleasure to open the parcel.

I am going to start Winter Watergarden as soon as possible, trying to keep up with the releases of new parts of the chart every month. My plan was to use the scrollbars of the almost finished Frosty Knotgarden for this new start, but they are not long enough! On the longer scrollbars I've attached Peacock Garden and Fairy Flower Garden and they are not close to a finish at all. So I just ordered a new set of 30 inch and I am hoping they will arrive soon.

Part #5 of Frosty Knotgarden is finished. All the missing threads arrived last week, so there is nothing to keep me from finishing the last part.

Spring basket

This lovely basket filled with different kinds of flower bulbs DD gave me yesterday! I was very surprised by this beautiful gift!

And an update of Frosty Knotgarden. Two of the missing threads did arrive last week, so I can stitch everything now except for the darkest colour of the flowers on the corners.

'Hermit and Stitch Day'

It turned out to be impossible to have a 'Hermit and Stitch Day' with DD and DH at home. But I did have a lot of 'Hermit and Stitch Hours' scattered over the weekend and I managed to stitch a lot of Frosty Knotgarden during this hours. I couldn't finish the right corner because I ran out of several threads. I do hope the package of Needlecraft Corner will arrive today or tomorrow. This package includes Blackbird Designs 'Anniversaries of the Heart' #10, the missing threads and some Piecemakers tapestry 28 size needles. These are my absolute favorite needles, but at the moment I only have two of them left.

Now I am going to visit the other Hermit's blogs to see what they have done during their stitching days. Thank you for organizing the 'Hermit Day', Joyce.
Thank you for all your lovely comments; I appreciate them very much.

One Frosty corner

I still have to finish the flowers in the corner. I ran out of the darkest colour :o(
Andie, it isn't my wishlist you can see in the side bar, but all the Chatelaines I am stitching at the moment. I did subscribe to the beautiful Spring Knotgarden too! And I ordered the kit of the Hummingbird Garden. Well, confession time...

Stitching:

• Peacock Garden
• Fairy Flower Garden
• Frosty Knotgarden
• Summer Knotgarden
• Watergarden
• Mini Mystery 01

Charts and kits waiting:

• Winter Watergarden
• True Mystery 2
• Hummingbird Sparkly Garden
• Knotgarden
• Spring Knotgarden
• Indian Summer Reflection

Finished:

• Secret Victorian Garden
• Celtic Maze
• Tuscany Town
• Autumn Watergarden
• Mini Mandala 5
• Mini Mandala 6
• Romantic Rose Garden
• Flower Medallions
• Elizabethan Sweete bag

OOPS! It is quite a long list! A very long list indeed!

172 eyelets

And I start to like them!
Part 4 of Chatelaine's Frosty Knotgarden Mandala is finished. Part 5 will be released on next Monday.

Julius has had his surgery this morning and is recovering in a bench at the vet's at the moment. I am going to fetch him later this afternoon. The bloodtest showed he has an inflamation again somewhere in his body, but like this spring the vet can't find anything that could cause it. He phoned to consider if he should remove the growth today or sometime later and first cure the inflamation. There would be no extra risk to do both things at the same time, so the growth is removed with a little bit of muscle tissue and is sent to the lab. Julius got a shot of antibiotics and will have pills for some time. The prognises is he will fully recover within a couple of weeks. The only uncertain fact is the growth, which could be malignant. Right now I am very relieved!!

Swan Lake again

After some time of serious consideration I have decided to replace 'A' for 'L'. And I am quite content with the final result.


Frosty Knotgarden is back on the frame now and I really enjoy working on this beauty again! There are still only a few cross stitches left to do in the triangles. And a lot of specialty stitches: each triangle contains fourty-three eyelets! These are not my favorite stitches to do, but I like the result when they are done.

Poor Julius is going to have another surgery on Monday. He growls when we accidentally touch the growth on his side, so it will be better to have it removed. I am a bit worried about it, though. After all he is sixteen years old already and has a minor heartproblem.