A week later...

 Teresa Kogut - In Command.  It almost got tossed back in the pile, but I decided to fill things in a bit more.  I still don't have any of the four pages completed yet.  The light directly on it makes it look pretty harsh with my crappy camera. 

 Decided to make myself an under the bed box of completed things.  But flipping through them, one of them seems like it has water stains on it.  Something I completed at the end of 2018 - Courtney Collection - Garden Fair.  Tried a first pass at cleaning it, but that didn't clean it totally.  But I looked back to see how much floss I would need to stitch it again, but it says I bought double the floss cause I was gonna widen the design.  Then I ended up just stitching the pattern as is.  So I must actually still have enough floss to stitch it again.  It is done in silks, so I was glad I wrote down what I used.  I might need to order just some antique white jobelan or lugana, but I might have that too.  That is the only thing I have ever had that ended up with some weird water type stains.  But that is why I needed to get them protected inside of something.  Luckily, I have stitched several of the Courtney Collection patterns twice, so doing that one again would not be something awful.    

And I got the response back from the IRS.  It said I owe nothing.  That what I provided was enough to end what it was they were questioning.  Which is why I keep everything. 

Let's start this....

Teresa Kogut - In Command.  A new start using the suggested PTP Mystic and dmc flosses.  This is Mystic lugana, 28 count, one over one.  Again, it's maybe the size of a postcard?  The pattern is four pages, and I've completed one page at least by this point.   There are 43 colors, some of which I haven't used yet.  At this point I am trying to start to fill in colors to be able to get to a page actually completed, but it is very shotgun to fill in sections.  I started the bottom right hand corner, and mostly worked to the top to finish the wing, which isn't actually finished.  There is a color called for that is the color of the material basically.  Stitching the lights on the fabric is not bad, but stitching the colors very close to the fabric color is something that seems like it should be final fill in, not a first color to grab randomly.  It's been a while since I did a piece like this, full coverage, but I have now started so many of her patterns, I'd like to finish something of hers, but I don't see that happening.  This was a pattern that I picked up as a stitching store was closing out. 

This week is now a year since my breast removal.  Been a weird year, that's for sure.  Because of my cancer type, my cancer feed off of my estrogen, so I now take an estrogen killer pill.  Which on a scale of possible cancer things.... this is nothing.