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I did get in a couple of days of beading but it's hard to get remotivated after having laid off the needle for so long... My May butterfly is progressing but clearly won't be done in May! The June Crazy quilt block is "built" but not stitched on,

This week's stitch took me a while to decipher but once I experimented with the double chain, I worked out what to do and here is my attempt at a Buttonholed Double Chain: What I discovered is that a) you have to watch to be certain you don't twist the

Better late than never, I suppose, and the colors didn't work out quite like I had hoped ( was aiming for daffodils but the oranges didn't quite mesh), but here is my May butterfly:

I finally got in some stitching this week. My eyes sort of lose focus after a couple of hours, though and so I couldn't do long stretches of stitching. But the flashing and aching eye muscles appear to be a thing of the past (knock on wood). Besides

And in only two days! The Casey Buonaugurio design, "The Taco Sampler", on 32 ct pale yellow linen with DMC floss: The major problem --- the white (Sour Cream and Onions) is too close in value to the linen to show up well.

Crested Chain Stitch: I had trouble keeping the stitch straight and of the same width down the chain but at least I figured out how to do it (after frogging it three times!). I could see using this as a crazy quilt seam treatment if I can ever get it

Besides catching up with TAST, finishing the piece for the fair ("The Taco Sampler") and taking nine finished pieces to the framer on Saturday, I did squeeze in some stitching as well this past week. I managed to get the main part of the outer borders

The stitch for this week was the Bullion Buttonhole stitch... My take on this stitch is here: It LOOKS like a buttonhole stitch with bullion knots on the vertical spines but... not totally sure I did it right. Oh well... This week is a break week so

This month's themes were: Designer – Teresa Wentzler, Style – Summer, Colors – Black and Green ... and again, I don't have a single piece in progress that fits in with those themes. Also, I still seem to be in recovery from that eye surgery as my eyes

I did stitch this weekend... I finished Stitch 71 for TAST on Friday and the June block for the Crazy Quilt Journal Project on Saturday. Then I started on the 12 x 12 block I hope to enter in the county fair next month in the category called "Pink"...

A week of attempting to catch up *and* get ready for the fair. It helped that this weekend also coincided with WIPocalypse and International Hermit and Stitch Weekend for June... so I got two things completed (TAST #71 and June Crazy Quilt Journal Project