A Day for Slow Stitching

While I had every intention of machine sewing yesterday, the Resident Electrician had other ideas. In fairness to him, he was finished with his work around 2:00 p.m., but it seemed late in the day to drag everything out by that time. Instead, I spent the day on slow-stitching.

First up was the day's inchy. This one took a little longer than the rest. It's stitched in backstitch, cross-stitch, French knots, and double lazy daisy stitches.

After that, I worked on finishing up the fourth snowflake. I needed to finish stitching around the outside edge...all stem stitch with one strand of floss, and so those are tiny stitches. The pattern had them in the lightest of the three blues, but I wanted to use something darker.

After that, it was time to sew on the beads.

And then to rinse out the Sticky Fabri-Solvy. Now it is pressed and finished.

While I was rinsing it out, I made up the fifth snowflake, and I'll probably get a start on it today.

Up until now, I've done them in the same three shades of blue. The next one will be done in aqua blues.

We've been enjoying the hummingbirds. This one here is the thug hummer. He's been sitting in a nearby tree for two straight days, chasing off any other birds who come by to feed.

Although he seems to consent to this one other hummer...possibly a sibling or a mate? Who knows why.

Nevertheless, he keeps a weather eye out for other intruders and chases them off whenever they come near. Sometimes they ignore him. Yesterday there were four lined up to feed from the two holes. He was stamping his little birdy foot with wild abandon, but nobody was listening. (Sorry for the dirty window, by the way.)

And now can we all pause with a moment of silence for the terrible life of the RV cats. It's all sunbathing...day in and day out...how is a cat supposed to get a moment's peace?

 As for the Resident Electrician, he was busy doing some re-wiring yesterday. When we're dry-camping, meaning no water or electricity, we run things on battery/inverter power. However, there are only about three plugs in the whole RV that will operate on battery power. He re-wired the RV yesterday so that *all* the plugs will operate on battery power. It's an important and convenient change. It meant that the power was shut off to all the plugs yesterday, though, and so no machine sewing for me. I'll get back to it today. We have a couple of errands to run in town, but I'm confident I'll be able to sew the Tiny Tuesday quilt into a finished flimsy by day's end.