On Wednesday nights I go to a class at Town Ho Needlecrafts. Barry is the owner and instructor. Brilliant man. Gifted in the use of color.

As I was sitting there one night several years ago I noticed an Adirondak chair with a pumpkin in it. My daugher and I like adirondak chairs and I thought that was really a cute one. Barry explained that it was one in a series of 4. There was one for each season. Sure didn't take me long to say "I want them". He placed an order with the artist for two sets of them. One for him and one for me. They are hand painted on canvas and work well for traditional needlepoint BUT....... Barry likes to do Creative needlepoint....... Different threads....Different stitches...... Each week I would do exactly what he had done. I worked along slowly. Barry got bored with them and put them aside. He promised to get back to them soon. I have two completed and they are at the framers. If I can locate the picture of them I will post it later. I wanted to finish them last year but that did not happen. I wanted to finish them by the end of spring 2006. That did not happen. I do not want to go into 2007 with those pictures still incomplete. They are taking TOP PRIORITY now. They are moving into the FAST LANE. It really is hard to tell from the picture but the sky is complete (but not the snowflakes), the chair and basket and the red ribbon are complete. I am now working on the green pine leaves. I have the thread for the snow man, the snowflakes and the water. That is my goal for this week. Then if all goes well next Wednesday I will learn how to do the snow on the beach......................