A Day for Slow

We've seen the most beautiful sunrises here in Pahrump, and yesterday's was especially pretty.

Smitty looked the way I was feeling yesterday morning. I'd been three nights in a row with not enough sleep, and I could feel that weariness in my eyes. I vowed a nap right after breakfast.

We were waiting for Erik and Mae to join us for free waffles here in the park. In the meantime, I stitched up the day's inchy...a needle pulling thread. We'll be stitching the thread in the needle after we've made our way across the next few squares.

Erik and Mae arrived about that time, and we had our breakfast. They took off for a day in Las Vegas, and I made good on my threat to take a nap. It felt good, and I felt a lot better afterward. With so much energy, it seemed like a good time to do some slow-stitching. I stitched and stitched and stitched the day away. We took a break for some grocery shopping and to fill our propane tanks, but by day's end, the embroidery on the fifth snowflake was finished.

It still needed its beads.

After those were sewn on, I washed out the Sticky Fabri-Solvy and then pressed it for its picture. Ta-Da!

These are the five I have so far. The others have been folded in a zip-lock bag, and so they have a fold line down the middle.

Now they're all tucked away again, and I have the sixth one made up and ready for stitching. I'll do this one in the aqua blues too. All along as I've been stitching these, I've been bothered that the instructions suggest "straight stitches" for some of these short straight lines. Some of them (the one below, as an example) seem too long to leave just one uncouched stitch.

Then I realized I'm doing the largest of the snowflakes, and it really doesn't work for them. The pattern gives four different sizes, starting with 3 inches. Straight stitching might be fine there, but I'm doing them at 6 inches, and so twice as big. For most of them, I've done a back stitch or a stem stitch rather than the suggested straight stitch. I'll probably do this sixth snowflake all in stem stitch.

It was a lazy day for me, aside from slow-stitching. We had breakfast at the RV park, and then we got fast food for lunch while we were out grocery shopping. Then, for dinner, Mike cooked us up a mean leftover macaroni and cheese. He's a keeper, for sure. There was no cooking at all for me yesterday.

Erik and Mae are taking off for home this evening. I'm not sure what they have planned for their last day here, but we are meeting them at a cafe for breakfast this morning. Aside from that, we have no plans for our day. I'll probably get back to my hand quilting today.

Since I haven't shown Sadie on the blog for a few days, I'm offering up this proof of life photo. She's alive and well, running around, trying to eat the hummingbirds, and generally acting like the cat that she is. Here, she's practicing for her newest centerfold gig.

The day's inchy should be posted in about an hour, and that's where I'll start the day...after finishing up here, of course. Checking in with you guys is always my first priority. I believe we have our next stop planned. We're here in Pahrump until the 17th, and then we'll probably be driving north to Caliente, Nevada, where there are two state parks within a half-hour's drive of one another. I'll say more about that as the time draws nearer.