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First baby quilt is almost completely quilted. Second baby quilt is completely pieced. I have a design for the quilt that will showcase the national park cross-stitch pictures (links below behind the cut). It will be a triple Irish chain done scrappy in a limited palette (dark blue, brown, teal, green, rust, burgundy, black, maybe gold). The pictures will be in the blank squares. And I have several yards of a taupe on cream (tone on tone) fabric with a Yellowstone theme (bears, geysers, waterfalls) for either a border or the backing. I won't get to start it until after I get the crane quilt pieced and quilted, which probably means not till after Christmas, but planning ahead never hurt anyone, right? Maybe when I get home tonight I'll post the picture from EQ5.
In other creative news, Chapter 27 is being vastly improved by a bit of epistolarity (is that a word? -- well, it is now [g]). Anyway, Charley and Emma are corresponding while he's in the Park for the summer. And it's really making a big difference in the tone of the chapter. Besides, writing Emma's letters in particular (we don't have her POV otherwise) is just too much fun for words.
Oh, and I'm still smelling lavender after this weekend. Wow, that was fun. *And* I saw two new-to-me wildflowers on the road back from Hurricane Ridge. White bog-orchid (http://tinyurl.com/zyuv5) and coral root (http://tinyurl.com/fn6pg). Wonderful stuff. Oh, and the six-point buck on the Ridge was nice, too.
Rats, the way the website is set up it's impossible to link, so here's the website -- www.kindstitchworks.com, and here's the names of the patterns (go to the state, then click on the pattern), if you care enough to look at them:
Mt. McKinley, Alaska
Grand Canyon, Arizona
Yosemite, California
Mesa Verde, Colorado
St. Mary Lake (Glacier), Montana
Crater Lake, Oregon
Mount Rainier, Washington
Mount. St. Helens, Washington
Old Faithful (Yellowstone), Wyoming
In other creative news, Chapter 27 is being vastly improved by a bit of epistolarity (is that a word? -- well, it is now [g]). Anyway, Charley and Emma are corresponding while he's in the Park for the summer. And it's really making a big difference in the tone of the chapter. Besides, writing Emma's letters in particular (we don't have her POV otherwise) is just too much fun for words.
Oh, and I'm still smelling lavender after this weekend. Wow, that was fun. *And* I saw two new-to-me wildflowers on the road back from Hurricane Ridge. White bog-orchid (http://tinyurl.com/zyuv5) and coral root (http://tinyurl.com/fn6pg). Wonderful stuff. Oh, and the six-point buck on the Ridge was nice, too.
Rats, the way the website is set up it's impossible to link, so here's the website -- www.kindstitchworks.com, and here's the names of the patterns (go to the state, then click on the pattern), if you care enough to look at them:
Mt. McKinley, Alaska
Grand Canyon, Arizona
Yosemite, California
Mesa Verde, Colorado
St. Mary Lake (Glacier), Montana
Crater Lake, Oregon
Mount Rainier, Washington
Mount. St. Helens, Washington
Old Faithful (Yellowstone), Wyoming