Two new starts

Yes there are two new starts. I will get to them, but first I want to show you my progress on my WIPs. First is Charming Santa. His face and beard have all the cross stitching completed. Now I am working on the beading.

Windows into my World....which I am thinking of calling Having a Ball, because I am when working on this, has 6 blocks quilted now. Number 7 is partially done.

Now for the two new projects Cinnamon House is mostly kitted up. Some of the floss colors need to be retrieved from Three Boats.

 Hubby and I will be traveling some over the next month or so and I wanted a small craft to bring with me. 

Close sewing at night has become difficult as I have gotten old, so I have also been looking for a nighttime, TV watching craft. I've been itching to feel some yarn in my hands too, but I don't want a big project. As I was sorting through some knit and crochet pamphlets to decide whether to keep or donate them, I came across this one. 

The granny square baby blanket is perfect for using scraps of yarn and I even have a large skein of white yarn to use. As you can see I have many little balls of orphan yarns to use up. This will eventually be gifted or donated. There is no intended recipient at this time. A few of those pamphets were put aside for donation too. When there aren't any patterns that you feel the urge to make someday, it is time to part with the excess. 

Hubby and I enjoyed a night out this week. We had an excellent dinner at the Harbor House American Kitchen in Northport. Afterwards we saw a production of South Pacific at a local theater. 

I remember my mother having the original Broadway cast album so I knew all of the songs. The production was good, but the show itself is somewhat dated now.

We had an unexpected big purchase this week. Since the warm weather seemed to finally be here on Monday (it has disappeared the last 3 days), we decided to uncover our outdoor furniture and Hubby washed it. As he is washing our bar cart, one of the wheels just disintegrated. At 25 years old, finding a part....or even being able to remove the rest of the wheel, was not happening so the cart was trashed. Then, Hubby was taking a break and we were enjoying a cup of coffee around the now clean table. As I went to get up from the chair, the mesh seat split. Now we started with 6 chairs several years ago and were down to two. We also knew that we needed a new umbrella for the table. It was time for a new purchase. Maybe on of the new polymer table and chair sets. On our trip to a local backyard store we made the discovery that those sets are quite heavy to move around, even just the individual chairs. Lo and behold, the store had a new version of our old metal and glass table with mesh chairs. That is what we bought. It was delivered on Thursday and it has been cold and rainy since. Sigh.... I still have to find a new bar cart as there wasn't a matching one. 

I will be joining Kathy for some Slow Sunday Stitching, Frederique at the Quilting Patch and Alycia at Quilty Girl. Make yourself some tea or coffee and pop on over to their sites to see what other bloggers are stitching. 

Thanks for stopping by!