Good Morning Sunday-Slow Stitch Progress

 Good morning Friends,

   It has been very windy here, so not working outdoors this weekend. Today we warm up to the 80"s but still windy.

  Congrats to the KC Royals baseball team for making it into one of the wildcard spots for the year's championship. They have had  some injuries, lots of new players, were so close to getting in and then they started losing lots of games-so I stopped watching them. over the last couple of weeks. Watched the game that would get them in and they lost-ugh, but another team lost so they got in haha.  First in 10 years since they got in the playoffs.

  I think I have more time in pinning my slow stitch project than sewing so far. I had bought some short applique straight pins as the instructor I am following really likes them. So, I was online hunting some down-they are hard to find.  I did find some I really liked and two online shops had them-but for both the shipping and taxes were higher than the pins-ugh. So I scoured Amazon-found one company that had them the review was good.  When I got them-I liked that they were short, but these were Not sharp at all-so no good for this project.

  I went back to the silk pins my Mom bought me years ago-they are thin and veryyyyy sharp and long pins-perfect for quilters.  I started to sew and kept getting  stabbed by these sharp pins that will draw blood as well. So ok now what to do??  I went through my bag of sashiko items that I bought two years ago-and found two little boxes of small no coil safety pins. These are sharp and will work-but what a job to change it all. These will be a pain to move around as I sew, but at least I won't get stabbed and the patches are now secure.

I changed the pins after sewing this little bit.  I had to keep taking out my stitches as they were too small-being used to hand quilting stitches. Not even, but I am not going to worry about that-as this project is to be fun and hopefully relieve some stress I used a stick of white chalk for a rough line to follow.

I did finish up the second wolf block-stitched it per the pattern this time. But instead of everything being one color-I used different colors for the outline stitches. I think I am liking this better than the first block. I may just turn these into pillows. I am thinking of a tea or coffee dye to get rid of all that white though. Those of you that have followed me for awhile-know I do not care for white. I have not rinsed out the blue pattern as of yet.

  I did search online for a good price for Melania's new book. I watched an interview about her book, and decided I wanted to read it. The prices are all over the place along with shipping added. This morning I checked out Thrift Books-they had the best price with free shipping. It pays to "shop" and look around for best price.

Happy Sunday and have an awesome new week.