More Than Halfway This Time.

Teresa Kogut - Newcastle Bouquet.   I finished the right hand side completely.  At this point, I need a break from it, but I got way more done than I expected to get done this time.  I need to fill in just a bit more so I am not confused about - was I using the fancy floss or the dmc floss.  But just adding a few more threads solves that.  

As for real life stuff...  I sent off my response to the IRS, and they suggested it would be there on a Tuesday...  It was due Wednesday.  I was mailing it the Friday before at 4:30pm at the main post office.  It had lots of pages, it needed to be weighed, it had a due date.   So I was asking how to make that happen for sure.  They said Tuesday arrival.  I could just pay that, or, get Tuesday with tracking for $11.  Or I could overnight it for $28.  The IRS is closed Saturday, overnight seemed silly, and expensive.  But tracking did sound like a good idea, gave the $11.  Later I was told by the next postal employee, ALWAYS put tracking on anything to the IRS.  

Last Friday it was still between Salt Lake City and Ogden Utah.  Handed off on Sunday, to go 38 miles between those two places.  But on Friday it was still not there.  As of today, after 10 days, it still has not gone that 38 miles.  And the due date was a week ago.  I call the number for that IRS location just to see if they can say if it ever arrived at all.  And it had, it was scanned into 'their department', last Friday.  I  just wanted to know that it got there.  Nothing more.  I've gotten things in my hand that said they were not delivered yet.  I know postal tracking makes mistakes.  That it was possible it was there.  But with the IRS, that is not a game you wanna play.... maybe it got there.  You just have to wait long enough to give it time to be in their system, but not a month, cause you might be resending everything if it really is lost.  There is always something weird in my world.   

Working on the Right side...

Teresa Kogut - Newcastle Bouquet.  Finished filling in the border.  Just filling things in on that right side.  Lots of things going on.  Nothing bad. Well, the letter in the mail from the IRS asking me to explain something from my 2021 taxes was a new learning experience.  But I keep everything, and I knew I had proof.  There is always something that needs fixing. 
 

From the Started Pile of stuff...

Teresa Kogut - Newcastle Bouquet.  Pulled back out, and it sure won't get to the end this time either.  Finished the basket, and started the leaves, flower, and then the bird.  Decided to fill in the upper border section that was missing as a break from the center section.  My goal is to finish the border this round and enjoy stitching on the center section.  The border is dmc, the bird is dmc, the leaves are fancy floss. I noticed I have the Cayenne red called for, but I have the Classic Colorworks version, not the Weeks Dye Works version that is called for.  And I don't seem to have it in my stash, so that is why I used the dmc version for the bird too.  I know I picked dmc for the border so I would not run out.  At this point, I wanna finish things as I go along, not leave a half done leaf and wonder if it is fancy or dmc floss.  I did write what I was doing in my stitching notes on the blog, but I was not smart enough to write it on the pattern.  The designer has lovely patterns, but having now started several, there sure are LOTS of stitches to stitch in her patterns. 

 

Photo showing where it was when I picked it back up again.  It was May? of 2021 last time I worked on it at all.  And just to give you an idea of size, it's about the size of a legal sheet of paper.

I also finished stitching the block borders for Shores of Hawk Run Hollow before it was tossed back in the pile.  No photo, but it was an entire day of stitching to get that completed. 

Five of Twelve blocks completed.

 

Carriage House - Shores of Hawk Run Hollow.  I did the house in the top row, then finished the moon block in the corner.  Five of twelve blocks completed.