Stitching to Nashville and Back Again

If you read my previous post, you will know that I attended QuiltCon in Nashville last week.  From where I live, it is a day and a half of driving to get to Nashville.   Christine and I and our husbands made the journey in our car.  My husband did the driving and Christine and I sat in the back seat cross stitching (me),  knitting and embroidering (Christine).

Near the beginning of our trip, this is what my Frank Lloyd Wright cross stitch picture looked like:

I was soon rounding the corner...

And working on the last corner...

Christine made a cowl with some pretty Burgundy yarn.  Casting on...

And knitting away...

On the way home, I finished off the cross stitching on my picture and started the outlining with gold metallic thread.

Christine and I both bought embroidery kits at QuiltCon.  She worked on hers on the way home as I cross stitched.

It was a sunny day so the lighting was perfect.

Here is my kit...I will work on it when Frank is done.

I worked on FLW again this week at home and here is how it looks now.

This will be tomorrow's project again for Slow Sunday Stitching with Kathy.  I am using Thread Heaven on the metallic thread to keep it from tangling up too much. I know from experience that the outlining can take almost as long as the cross stitching so this will be in my hoop for a while yet.