This and That

 I made steady progress this week on "Love Birds", a counted cross stitch picture I am making for C and M for their wedding which took place late in 2020. My goal this past week was to finish the leaves and start the next large blue flower.  Mission accomplished!  

Here is a closer up view of the section I worked on this week. 

It may take a week or two to finish the blue flower.  There are a lot of stitches in it!

My friend, A, celebrated a birthday this week so I made her a zippered pouch using some gardening themed fabric from my stash.  She is an avid gardener and was pleased with her bag.  The lining is a polkadot fabric. 

This week, I finished my "make a mini, make a friend" quilt for my swap partner in the Modern Quilt Guild, part of QuiltCon Together 2021(a virtual event this year due to COVID-19).  My partner lives in Texas and I asked that she make a mini quilt for me that tells me something about where she lives.  The quilt she sent to me arrived this past week but she has not received the one I made yet.  Once she has it, I will reveal both quilts here.  I did some colour blocks as my leaders/enders while making the swap quilt. These four blocks will be for quilts in future months.  The yellow and gray blocks are the last four needed for the February quilt. 

I am in the midst of prepping for some workshops at QuiltCon and if everything is ready early, I may have time to work on the February Colour block quilt this week. Two of the workshops are hand stitching--one is a hand quilting class with Sarah Fielke and the other is a hand embroidered quilt label class. I should have something to report on my classes by next week's blog post for Slow Sunday Stitching. 

I picked up two framed cross stitch pictures this week. The Frank Lloyd Wright window has been stitched for quite a while and the multicoloured blackwork was finished before Christmas.  As you can see below, both are now hanging on the wall!  The woman who does my framing does a great job!

As usual, Finn provided loving support during my daughter's stitching time this week.  There is a good reason that we call him the "Velcro" dog.  This is a stitch-along from the Barmy Fox on Instagram. 

Here are a couple of pictures taken while I was out for a walk one day this week.  The red berries are high bush cranberries. 

As usual, I will link up with Kathy and the gang of Slow Sunday Stitchers in the morning. Have a great week!