sweeps week

most of the slow stitching going on around here lately has been on this broom...

last sunday

the pattern is from Calendula Patterdrip's Cottage 
and is reduced by 50% with permission from Crab-apple Hill Studio
and
the fabric is a pale poison green that is utterly misrepresented in any photo i have taken...

after another week of sweep sweep sweeping

 anywho...

it's kicking my butt even more than sweeping real floors 
not that there's been a lotta that going on...

linking with other slow stitchers on Kathy's Quilts blog for Slow Sunday Stitching...

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston

rule bender

every sunday

 Kathy at Kathy's Quilts hosts Slow Sunday Stitching with an InLinkz for other stitchers  to link up posts that show their slow stitching ... i have been following those links every sunday for a few years ... i always make sure that my Kindle is fully charged on saturday night so i won't miss anything ... and i have always INTENDED to actually write a post about my own slow stitching

 and then link up...

but...

yeah, THERE it is!!!

i haven't...

what USED to hold me back was that i didn't make my slow stitches on sundays

cuz that's what every other day of the week is for...

but...

there it is again!!!

 when the regular NFL season started, i realized that i DO stitch during Bronco games

 and that Bronco games are usually on sundays

 and i COULD post about slow stitches that were actually taken on sundays...

so...

before the first sunday game, i took a picture of what i was working on...

it was a Shepherd's Bush stocking and i needed to stitch and finish it before the end of november so Super Sam could hang it in time for a visit from the Man in the Red Suit on christmas eve...

easy peasy - this should take no time at all ... NOT!!!

but mmhmmm 

i didn't get around to writing the post...

before the next sunday, i realized that my stitches were in the wrong places and, by the time they were all undone and redone, i didn't write a post...

that's better

i kept taking pictures...

this does NOT look like a shepherd to me

and not posting...

he looks more like a wizard

and taking pictures...

even with the sheep, this is NOT a shepherd

and not posting...

over hill

et cetera...

over dale

et cetera...

it takes a village

et cetera...

is that ... KRYPTONITE?!?

et cetera...

T Rex and Superman and a Wizard ... weird

and by then it was time for the machine work

- which is still slow stitching for me cuz i hafta rethink how to make piping and how to make a lining with the shiny side out and how to turn a handle -

and it was too late to post about the slow stitching...

merry christmas, Super Sam!!!

cuz that would be breaking the rules...

or maybe i could bend them a little bit

 and post all of it at once...

yeah...

and so i am linking with other slow stitchers on Kathy's blog

Harry was speechless. Hermione was the last person to do anything against the rules, and here she was pretending she had to, to get them out of trouble. It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets.

J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone