June Stitch Day

Kimat Designs hosted a stitch day on Friday at the Lemonville Community Centre. I met Barb at Vandermeer's, parked my car, and she drove us there. 

The room is pretty big and in addition to the big, east-facing windows, the lighting is good. The air conditioning did a pretty good job at keeping the temperature tolerable in the hall but I brought a hoodie just in case it was going to be blowing on me (as had been a previous complaint in that space). Good thing I brought it because I was sitting right under it. Next time we'll tell whoever gets us seats to stay farther away from the back wall.

Of course, I brought both Ernest and Thomas to the event. They were admired by many.

Also at our table were MaryK, Judy, Jeanette, Joanne, and Jennifer (Joanne's daughter).

I bring the 'Newcastle Bouquet' sampler to every stitch day and work on it for a bit.  I completed the eyelet 'v'.

and brought the wool felt flower pot 'bowl filler' to show off.

The blanket stitch around the bee hive hole is a bit wonky so I'll redo it. The heat-erasable drawn lines are for the flower stems. 

A couple more rows were completed on the sashiko cherry blossom piece. One side has a bit of a pucker so I'll have to fix that.

Continuing to plug away at the Mystical Lanterns crochet project back at home whilst watching TV in the evenings, 67 'lanterns' have been completed so far. The pattern calls for 158 of them plus a dozen half lanterns for evening out the top and the bottom. I'm not even halfway yet. 

After the loop start, there are only 4 rounds - with colour choices completely at random. The kit came with 12 colours of Stylecraft DK yarn. I'm also using random bits of yarn left over from the Persian tiles blanket.

Assembly will likely be with a whip stitch with an off-white yarn. However, I could also do the mattress stitch to just butt one lantern against the other without the off-white showing. Will have to do samples of each and see how I like them.

I did some stealth sewing yesterday, It took all afternoon and I'm not happy with the sewn double-fold binding I did. I'm probably going to re-do it which will probably take another whole afternoon.

Wednesday is our June Trillium Guild meeting. I have two items to put in the Trillium Annual Themed Award (TATA). Both had been mostly stitched for a couple of years but I finished stitching and assembly this year. Neither will be award-worthy but I'll be happy to have them on display with the others. Photos will be shared after the meeting. Our stitching Saturdays will continue through the summer.

Today is a gloomy, rainy day. Not fun for anyone camping but our gardens are loving it. I'm thinking of having a nap.