Whippy Wednesday

Hoping you like my WIP's

for this month.

 

Let's start with Quaker Block.

Instead of using one color,

I chose to use three.

I changed out the crown at the top.

Inserted the date 1656.

Any clue on why I did that?

What is the significance of this date?

Let's play Final Jeopardy with the theme song.

Do Do Do Do 

Do Do Do

(Not even sure if there are words to the song) LOL

Any hoot the answer is:

What is the date the Quakers arrived in the US.

So since this is a Quaker block...why not add the date

they came to America.

Am loving the colors I chose for this stitch.

No rhyme or reason. 

Just picking as I go.

Turkey Trot is next.

When last I showed this one,

I had the first turkey finished.

Added the remaining acorns on top,

plus another motif.

Finished the top border.

Started on the last turkey.

This is my lunch stitch. 

Laura Vorgensen 1853 is the pattern

I chose to add my parents name,

and their wedding date.

while also adding the name of the church and town.

They were wed in a church on a hill.

This is where I left off the last time.

If you remember I wanted to see all of the letters.

Then when I picked it up again, did not want

it to be all of this blue.... 

So I frogged out the letters "E" and "F" 

in blue and went back

to the ghosted color.

I am only going to stitch two or three rows

 of the alphabets, instead of the six rows.

Decided this because it is such a large piece.

I need room for my personalization on this one.

Now this second row is very time consuming because

there is lots of confetti (color changes).

Each one of these letters takes me 

over an hour to complete. 

On the pattern this row is actually the last one.

Notice there are no letter "J's" in these.

The first row is the entire alphabet and numbers.

Next row I chose ends with the letter "W". 

I work on this one most Saturdays and Sundays.

Although very time consuming this piece

is very relaxing to stitch as I dont have

a timeframe on completing like the 

big Halloween one.

Speaking of Halloween...

Finally block 11 is completed on

Halloween At Hawk Run Hollow.

YAY!

I love the ghosts  coming out of

the locomotives smokestack.

I did change the color of the sign.

The pattern called for the lime green

of the grass, however the picture had

the gold color.

Me thinks this was an error in the pattern,

so I went with a gold floss that was in the mix.

This is my go to stitch nightly after dinner.

Left side.

Right side.

One more block to go.

Once this piece is finished,

I wont frame it right away...

but I do want it framed eventually.

I also have the pattern for 

Houses of Hawk Run Hollow,

but I am in no hurry to start another big

project right away.

Have something else planned for a monthly stitch.

Plan on starting this in October or November.

Just not sure yet when.

Stay tuned on that.

It will be a Sunday start at some time. ;-)

In other news,

yesterday was the worst fog ever.

I could not even see driving down my little street

to the main road it was that foggy.

I almost turned around.

Could hear the freighter in the river,

but could not see it...and they usually

turn on all of their lights in the fog.

Got better as I got closer to town which is a mile.

Hoping today is not the same.

 Chef Bob made Lamb Stew for dinner last night.

For those of you who like lamb,

this was his best recipe to date.

Bob is half Lebenese on his dad's side.

He made it just like his dad would have.

It was awesome and I am glad I have some to 

take for lunch today.

We have been going to a local meat market

monthly now to get our meat.

This market has monthly specials 

and for $100 you can pick from 5 meats.

This month one of them was lamb.

Let me tell you, the meat is always fresh

and it lasts almost a month for us on what we pick. 

We have been doing this for 4 months now.

Am spoiled now.

I dont want to go back to grocery store meat.

You order the day before and it is cut fresh.

Well have to get ready for work.

Hope everyone is enjoying their week thus far.

Please take a moment today

to remember those who lost their lives

this terrible day on 2001 when at

8:14am our great country was first attacked.

May we never forget.

God Bless The USA.

Happy Wednesday Blessings To All,

Janice