It was a lovely Sunday afternoon; would have been a good day for a stroll around the neighborhood, but I decided it was also a good day to pull out my much-neglected stitching and see what I could make progress on.  I started with Isabella Johnstone and here's where I am:

 The alphabets and numbers are actually going fairly quickly and once I get past those I can get to the fun stuff -- flowers and cow!

I gave in to an attach of startitis and pulled out Sarah Hartley, from Historic Stitches.  I've had her kitted up for ages.  Here's a picture of the front of the chart; sorry for the glare but couldn't quite get rid of it.

The chart calls for 28-count linen and DMC threads; I'm using DMC but decided to use 36-count linen -- "Sand Dune" from Lakeside.  There's a lot of over-one stitching in this sampler, and 36-count is about the smallest count I can handle over-one on.  I started in the middle to work my way out to the border, and here's the progress from a couple of hours of stitching:

 

The stitchy world has otherwise been pretty quiet around here.  Wishing everyone a good week and happy stitching!

Isabella Johnstone Progress

My stitching time this weekend was spent with Isabella, working my way through the upper case alphabet.  There are still 3 rows of lower case alphabet and numbers, and that border goes all the way around.  But I love the colors, so that makes it an enjoyable stitch.  I'm looking forward to getting to the cow.

The weather here this week has been miserably hot, but a dandy little thunderstorm blew through this evening and cooled things down a wee bit.  We have company coming next weekend - the friends who stood up with us at our wedding; this will be the first time we've seen them since then - so I don't anticipate much stitching getting done this week.

Wishing everyone a great week and happy stitching!