Turtle Trot - February 2015

This maybe my turtle trot post but life seems to be at the hares’ pace lately.  So I am quite surprised to be able to report how much progress I have made on two of my ten pieces that I selected to work on for this year’s turtle trot.  If you are unfamiliar with the Turtle Trot, it is a SAL (stitch-a-long) that is hosted by Claudette on her blog, BAP Attack's.  Each month on the 10^th (sometimes a couple days late), we post our progress on the ten pieces that we selected at the beginning of the year. Click here to find the current participants that have linked their progress to Claudette’s blog.  There are some great stitchers out there if you have time to take a peek at their blogs too. 

The first piece, Bent Creek’s Patriotic Row, is one that I have changed up (fabric and floss colors) to fit my taste.  As I was stitching I had to remind myself that if I kept going and finished it then I would not have a project that did not place on my stitching stand. I love my stand except it is really hard to get it set right when I am sitting in my favorite chair (our 24 old La-Z-Boy recliner). 

You will notice that most of my stitching time this past month was spent on my Paula Vaughan’s Good Neighbors piece.  It is hard to tell from the photographs but the sky area between the porch posts is now filled in with half stitches.  I was so happy to have those stitches finished and be able to move onto complete stitches. I would get a nice rhythm going and next thing I would know it was time to fix dinner or go to bed.  I had thought about changing to one of my others pieces but I was challenging myself to get to the house.  The black and gray is the roof, which is not as far as I wanted but quite an accomplishment. 

Since I am a bit late on posting this and it is now Thursday, I thought I would give you a throwback for Throwback Thursday.  When preparing the before and after photos, I found that I had taken a picture of the PV Good Neighbors exactly ten years ago on the 10^th.  Not sure if this makes me sad or excited that I am finally getting closer to having it stitched. Sorry about the quality, I think I was still putting my pieces on the scanner bed and scanning them since I don't even think I had a digital camera at that time.  Oh my the times have changed. 

Thank you so much for reading my post and hope that your Valentine’s Day is splendid. Hopefully out new couch will arrive.  Now I have to get busy and shampoo the living room carpet.  We had to buy a new shampooer since I wore the old one out.  Not sure what that says but it was six or more years old.  

Happy Stitching and Quilting!