However, I have discovered this isn't as straightforward as you would think. When I tripled the #4 braid in my needle, the three strands twisted and knotted themselves and the tent stitch looked messy. So I am stitching with a single strand of #4 braid and stitching three tent stitches per hole. It takes a while and is annoying but it works and saves me from having to put this piece aside until I can obtain more #12 braid. After all, I am rushing to get this done ASAP so that I can start on the project I plan to stitch for my mother for Christmas.
By the way, the photos are scenes from Chilly Hollow this week. We had lovely weather all week (although today is blustery and raining like March weather) and I took some photos of the leaf color facing the Blue Ridge Mountains and of the two yearlings that are eating grass right outside the front door.
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6 comments:
Fall is definitely beautiful there is Chilly Hollow, and the "deerlings" are precious. Yes, I know they love feasting on roses and other such treasures, but they are still welcome to browse. Thanks for sharing this lovely scenery, I especially enjoyed gathering bittersweet when we lived in Maryland. Hope your stitching goes well today.
I missed you too Jane. I was ready to call the needlepoint police and have them check your house to make sure you were okay. The pictures you posted are beautiful. I cannot imagine living in an area like that. I envy you. My wild life consists of squirrels, toads and daddy long legs.
I hate it for you! I could have mailed that from my stash--one I did have!! The pictures are lovely....every one is in the Blue Ridge mountains enjoying the color! It should be gorgeous there Sunday as it was lovely here on Saturday!
Pat, between our stashes we could open a store! LOL
Our weather Saturday was crappy--very windy and rainy, just like blustery March weather. Hopefully today will be a little sunnier as there is firewood to split and stack for winter. The heavy rains brought down lots of leaves so I am not sure we will enjoy much of peak color. Unless you want to come look at the leaves on my driveway or the tops of the acorns the deer have left on it!
Nancy, we have toads and daddy longlegs and squirrels, too. It's just there are foxes, rabbits, weasels, snakes, raccoons, groundhogs, birds of all sorts, and occasionally a bear or wild cat. We have salamanders and turtles and butterflies and moths as well. So far it is a healthy ecosystem but we have the advantage of large blocks of woods around us that are uncut so that there are probably 200 acres or perhaps more of forest for the critters to live in.
It's a beautiful place but we have very few services and when the power or phone goes out, we are the last to get a repair. Plus it is 100 miles a week to go downtown to buy the newspaper, pick up milk at the grocery store or hit the drugstore.
Madonna, there used to be bittersweet over the ridge from us on Mr. Dickey's land. I'll have to pick some the next time I am over that way.
I don't like the deer close to the house as they carry ticks which have Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. The dogs have had both and I had the typical bullseye spot from a tick bite last year but tested negative for both then. They are fun to see but really are a nuisance, especially as they also draw poachers towards our house and I have no confidence those guys know a thing about gun safety.
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