Crabby

I continue to work on the crab canvas. I have finished adding the extra stitching around the bottom half, and along the right side of the canvas. This extra border will give the finishers enough stitching to finish it properly without loosing my polka dot border. I've got the second half of the left side and the top to complete and then this baby is done. I haven't had alot of time this week to stitch but was glad to see that I made decent progress anyway. This canvas was originally painted to be a dog collar but I am going to have it made into a pillow. Since it is a long thin canvas, it will end up looking more like a bolster pillow than a traditional pillow. I can't wait to see what PFOS does with this one. I don't know if you can tell from the picture but all the crabs and dots are stitched with either a metallic or a sparkly thread. The whole thing just glows and twinkles.

MJ and I slugged our way up I95 through summer vacation travel traffic and pouring rain to visit Waste Knot in northern VA yesterday. We each took canvases from our stash so we could pull threads. We particularly were interested in the new Vineyard Wool. I've never stitched with it but it got rave reviews from folks in the shop. The colors are great and the feel of the wool is soft and lush. Not at all scratchy or itchy like traditional wools. I will give you all the details of our shopping trip in a later post. It was a wonderful day spent playing with threads, looking at new canvases and sharing a day with a buddy. We both came home with lots of enthusiasm for projects old and new.

Prior to heading north yesterday, I stopped in at my Farmer's Market. These are the flowers for this week. I got them from a new vendor who says she "just grows flowers in my pasture"!!! They were the most incredible flowers I have ever seen. I walked around and picked stems from several of her buckets. This is by NO means all the choices she had - just the ones that struck my fancy at 8:00 on a Saturday morning.

Happy Father's Day everyone.