Pansy Pincushion Started

 Hi all -

I hope everyone is doing well! It was another slow week for me, craftwise. We had another long power outage this week -- this time from Thursday morning until Saturday night. This time it wasn't a planned outage so the length of the outage was a surprise. They kept saying the power would be back in a couple of hours, then they would extend it or switch back to "assessing the damage." It was very frustrating! But the power is back now and I didn't have to throw away very much food so things are good.

I decided to make a start on. my Pansy Pincushion designed by Sue Spargo. It was a good hand project to work on in lower light. I got all of the pieces cut out and appliqued to the background.

Pansy Pincushion

Then I got the embroidery done for the first flower.

Pansy Pincushion - Flower #1

This flower has a Bullion Rose stitch in the center. This is my first time trying this stitch. It looks fine, but could be improved. I do love trying new stitches!

I also made some progress on my Atween shawl designed by Laura Nelkin. 

Atween

This week I made a start on the third trapezoid. It wasn't a lot of progress, but any progress is good!

Nancy