Progress on Winter Quakers

Life has been busy but still finding time to stitch.  

Since I last shared here much has happened. Eight of us in our family traveled together to Norway to see our (both mine and my husband's) ancestors’ home area. It was an amazing trip! I would happily return there on a regular basis if life allowed that sort of thing to happen.  

We rented two cars and explored the western part of Norway.  What a peaceful, clean country full of lovely people. I have always been drawn to crystal blue lakes next to tall mountains, and that is definitely how it was in Norway. Of course though there are fiords instead of lakes!  

There was an abundance of driving through long tunnels that cut under mountains, oceans, and fiords. What an experience! It was precious time spent with family, which is the best of all.  

Later in the summer we came upon a very flooded home (plumbing) after we were gone a few days. Our home sustained a lot of damage. At this point we are still out of our regular sleeping area, but at least the work is nearing completion. No complaints, just disruption. 

Even with our home upset at hand, I always seem to find cherished stitching time. I recently had a small finish which will be shared later.  I now have less than five WIPs!  I did start a new piece in October which I will show later. 

I have been enjoying time recently working on Winter Quakers from Rosewood Manor.  The thread is all the special Valdani pack for this piece, except where I have used some WDW and DMC. I was running low with certain Valdani threads, but that was easily solved with my "on hand" threads.

On the bottom right motif I changed it a bit from the pattern. Instead of inserting my initial in the middle of the "diamond" motif, I instead stitched a little design in the middle. I hope this coordinates well with the whole motif. 

At this point I just need to stitch part of another motif that is not shown here, two small motifs, a few more birds, and a few dozen (or more?) snowflakes. I actually haven't counted how many are left.  

I am certainly enjoying this piece! I have seen that some people stitch the snowflakes with two threads instead of one. By the time I saw that method, I had already stitched too many snowflakes to go that route.I did like the denser look of the snowflakes, indeed. At this point I can appreciate these lighter looking ones as well. 

Thanks for stopping by today!