Still Moving Forward

our little camping cabin

This weekend our family took a little trip up north to the mountains. We met up with my husband’s brother’s family and had a nice time hanging out around the campfire. Thank goodness that the rain that came through on Saturday morning lifted just after lunch and the kids all went down for a rest.

The leaves in our part of Virginia haven’t started to turn yet, so I will have more of this sort of thing to look forward to in the near future. Fall has to be my favorite season.

stitching on the screened in porch

While the kids were napping, I took the opportunity to try to get some cross stitch practice in.

Not sure if you can see them well, but the tree on the right has little groupings of French knots.

I have no idea what the size of this even-weave is — it’s just a remnant that I had laying around. It’s pretty small though. I’m working just with one strand of floss. The tree on the right I started from scratch, and it’s only about halfway done. My shoulder held up for about an hour or so before it just got too sore. I am sure stitching in 50 degree weather wasn’t doing me any favors.

Still, I’m working my way through a few things and hopefully will be making some progress on working up a pattern of my own sometime in the near future.