© Tracy Kreger – Stitches ‘N’ Stones; Vivian Bales – Northern Needles; The Cross Stitcher Christmas Special December 2004

Things have been moving pretty slowly around the stitching frame. My arthritis has flared up as per usual at this time of year. Well, considering it is December and still so mild we received freezing rain yesterday, not so normal. It is a sad state of affairs when you think longingly of – 20C and freezed dried air to relieve the pain!

I completed the stitching on Silent Night and am very pleased with it. It was very addicting – I found myself putting aside my other stitching to work on it. I would really like to sew it up into a bell pull complete with a red tassle, but with so much on hold the past month I’ve lost my creative/sewing/to grow out of area. I can’t believe the piles that piled while I was patiently –not!! waiting for the pain to subside.

A note on the daily walking, I have been making it out around the field four or five times a week. I found it pretty boring to keep taking pictures of a watch and not much else. It would be interesting to have a record of the passing seasons though. May-be I’ll do it once every couple of weeks. Here is what Holly would sooner be doing . . .

especially on days when the north wind is getting under Rottie feathers!