Another finish for SOLAK

This morning I finished my third square for SOLAK. The pattern is "Black Bear" by the Stoney Creek Collection. I also started working on the pattern "Fox" by Jeanette Crews Designs. Not that you can see the fox yet, just the log it's standing on!

So, that's my work for today! Thanks for looking. :)

Black Bear, Almost Finished

Just another quick update to show my progress on the Black Bear square. Hoping to finish it tomorrow. We'll see! This is what I have done:

Black Bear

Just a quick post to update my progress on the Black Bear square. This is what I got stitched today.

Still frozen...

Today was no letdown in my recent series of adventures. I had my second shift at work, and when I got out at 2:00 the car was acting funny. I managed to drive to the middle of the parking lot, just far enough to get stuck in the middle of an intersection. AAA took almost three hours to get there from Manchester.
Which left me ample time to witness the rotten nature of humanity. People were SO rude and flat out nasty... As if I planned to stall my car on a whim. Yeah, I had nothing else to do with my afternoon except break down. It got to the point where if one more person honked or flipped me off, I was going to lose it. And the worst part is that it was mostly old ladies! Who knew senior citizens were so full of rage? Finally a young guy stopped and helped me push the car out of traffic, so at least there was one human being in Nashua today.
When the tow truck driver finally got there I could have hugged him. Partly because he was there to pick up the car and partly for body heat. It was 24°F out so you can imagine what that felt like.
Anyway, the car is now in the shop, hopefully to be fixed soon.
For stitching, I decided to start the Black Bear pattern for SOLAK. This is my work for the day.

Another finish

Tonight I finished my second square for SOLAK. The design is "The Hunter's Pace" by the Stoney Creek Collection. I am pleased with how it came out; I think it will be a nice addition to Tom's quilt. I haven't decided which square to work up next, so I'm off to look at my patterns now.
Thanks for looking!

An experiment

So I got my new phone today! In celebration of that, I am writing this post from the phone! Pretty cool. Anyhow, I worked on The Hunter's Pace and got quite a bit done. This was my progress.

A finish!

I had trouble posting last night; my text kept getting deleted/sucked into the internet void so I eventually gave up. However, I finished my first square for SOLAK yesterday. This is "Golden Retriever - Barney" by Country Cross Stitch. It was a lot more backstitching than I am accustomed to; I usually stitch HAED patterns which are all cross stitch! But I patiently stitched in every last blade of grass (in three shades of green, mind you!)
Then, I started working on the next square for Tom's quilt. It is a pattern called "The Hunter's Pace" by the Stoney Creek Collection. I am having to trim about 20 stitches off the top and bottom to fit the 4" requirement but I don't think they will be missed. You can see the tree, the deer, and the rabbit so far.

Sorry about the shadows in the picture. Hopefully the less than desirable picture quality problem will be over soon; I found out I was eligible for a phone upgrade so I just ordered my new phone which has a 5 megapixel camera in it. Which I thought was pretty awesome until Nate informed me his HTC Evo has a 12 megapixel camera. Whoopee for him. :-P

The waterfall in my bedroom has slowed but has not been resolved. Maintenance finally decided to show up this afternoon to take a look. They threw down a couple of trash bags and a new bucket (hooray, I can have my trash can back), peeled the popcorn layer off the ceiling, poked a hole with a utility knife in both rooms and called it a day. Apparently the apartment above us is vacant and was flooding with water pouring down the walls and "nobody called maintenance." Really?? Cause I'm pretty sure I called maintenance on Saturday night when I had the Poseidon Adventure in my room!! Ugh. According to maintenance, there's nothing they can really do until the snow melts. Today was therefor good and bad because it was sunny and (slightly) warm, so the snow was melting. Theoretically that should be a good thing, clearing the roof and running off. Unfortunately there is a veritable glacier on the edge of the building so instead of running off, the water is running down into the flushing and onto my bureau. Delightful. Supposedly they are waiting on a contractor from Pennsylvania (not exactly close to New Hampshire!) because there are so many homes here in New England having the same problems that no one local has time to do the work. (For those of you who don't live around here, we have had one massive snowstorm after another and there is well over a foot of snow and ice caked on the roofs.) So the saga continues.

Anyway, that's all I've got for today. Take care and thanks for reading!