Monday, November 14, 2016

I had a great weekend on Texada – good friends, good food, and lots of stitching.

On the 40 minute ferry ride over to Texada we watched a couple of hump back whales as they were making their way south, perhaps to Hawaii. They were huge! I’ve seen Orcas quite a few times, but these were my first hump backs. The ferry ride home was a completely different adventure. The winds were howling and the rain was pouring and I wasn’t sure the ferry was even going to run, but it did. The waves were huge out in the open water and they were crashing over the windows of the upper deck. Apparently some vehicles were moving around on the car deck but nothing hit anything so we were all able to drive off when we docked in Powell River. Although I didn’t feel any motion sickness, it was definitely the roughest crossing I’ve ever had.

I can’t show you any of my weekend stitching as it was all Christmas related. I finished the tops of four cards on Friday and I did a bit of cross stitching Friday evening. Saturday I worked on a series of five gifts, which were all finished to the point that I needed my better machine for the appliqué. Sunday was another cross stitching day but we packed up shortly after one so it wasn’t a full day.

I have, however, had a full day of cross stitching today and I’m doing my happy dance because I have the centre panel stitching all finished. I’ll take it to the bee tomorrow and see about adding some borders and a backing. I still have charms left to do but Stacia, Deloise and I thought if I got the centre done I could send packages of charms as they were completed, as long as I had more charms done than the number of days before Christmas. I still have some work to do concerning what is going into the Advent Calendars this year; I’m aiming for something completely different so it may take longer than usual to get that sorted.

I’m off now to get my bag packed for tomorrow’s bee.