Stocking Update

I spent a little bit of time a couple of evenings this last week working on the stocking. I spent a lot time on Friday, Saturday evening and today in the evening. This part took a lot of time! It is complicated and took a lot of back tracking to fill in all the areas. But it is done!! Don't worry it only looks like I'm not straight. The stitches do line up, it's just a little stretched on the frame.




Look, I only have a little bit left to do!! Not much at all. I hope I can get it done by next Sunday night. That would be so awesome if I can. My quilting machine is calling me, some of my fabric is calling me. I want to get this done so I can work on other things.

Stocking Update

I spent some time on Saturday & today making progress on this here stocking. I'm on the last section of pattern, I'm so glad. I do have two different colors on that very bottom part. Because I changed a couple of color to fit the kids taste, I wasn't sure if I wanted to use one of the colors so I played with two other colors. I'm not sure I like it. I might go back to the original color, but I might have to unwind the whole thing to see what color will look the best. I need to do that earlier than 9:30 PM, so maybe tomorrow after work I'll look again to see what I like. Not that the kids will notice.

Man Cave Update

Today I have lots of pictures of the man cave. Lots was accomplished this week, now that the evening are longer. Richard has had more time to work outside, the down side of that is it is hotter now. This first picture is the new hole in the wall. He drilled through the wall in the hobby room which is only 2 yrs old and through the foundation to the outside of the room. The reason is so he can thread cable, phone & Internet out to his man cave. Not that he needs it but just in case. Well it will increase the re-sale value of our home if it is all wired and it is easier to do it now then later. I wasn't too happy about this idea, and of course the hole is bigger than planned, it is suppose to be covered by outlet plate. It looks like he has some fixing to do here. He was happy to see light. In this picture the tubing is already inserted.



Then he gets to the other side of the wall, outside and I hear this 4 letter word for it didn't turn out like it should. His hole came out a little high and he had to break away the rest of the cement. He is going to re-cement it. So why did he push all the dirt back?? I'm only a girl but what do I know. If any unwanted critter's craw into my house because of this hole, plug your ears!





The air conditioning unit was completely installed, and he even turned it on. Since there is no insulation he couldn't tell how well it cools. I won't tell you how hot the door knob was to this man cave, it faces due West and I wished I had an oven mitt to open the door when I went in to take this picture.

Stocking Update

I made a lot of progress on the stocking, or it seems like I did to me. I had to rip that big N out. I was three stitches too far to the left, of course when I noticed I was just about done with it. I was determined to have that one letter in there tonight, so I took it out and re-did it. That red trim was very time consuming.

My copy of EQ7 has arrived and I done some playing in the program and I'm very pleased with what I see so far. It is very similar to EQ6 in it's layout and functioning, which will make upgrading my classes easier. I have drawn a block and designed a little wall hanging.

Man Cave Update

There has been progress made on the man cave, and here is the man in his cave. He was just tightening down the screws that hold in the casing for the air conditioning while I was out there taking pictures. Last weekend we were out of town, but the weekend before that he pulled all the wire from the main box to his cave. The nylon rope he was using broke 5 feet from the end closest to the cave. He had to cut the pipe to get to the wires. Then patch the pipe at that point. The Monday after that he pasted the electric inspection.

Saturday he worked on the inside wiring and mounting the air conditioning.

Stocking Update

I finished the top of the stocking and since I had to wind it up onto the top bar, I decided to unroll the whole stocking to see how the how much progress has really been made. This was taken on Wednesday May 19th. This is about 2/3s completed.










This pictures is from last night and this is what I finished over the weekend, the letters and the start of another vine. As you can see by the green stitches I have started the work on the toe area. I'm very pleased with my progress.

Ann's Thanks You Email

Mary -

I am checking my email and I am jumping up and down right now here in St John - I am sooooo.......... excited that I won!!!

Wow - this has really made my day!!!!! Thanks for hosting the give-away!!!!

Oh!!!! I am going to post a huge thank you on my blog tomorrow!!!! I am off to a celebration dinner tonight!!!

Thanks again,
Ann

Watch her Blog tomorrow.