Words are Hard!

Hello blogland and Merry Christmas!  This will be my last post  until New Year's so I hope you all have a great Christmas!  Things have been slow stitching wise.  I only made a little progress on Magical World.

The reason I've had so few progress is because of a combination of the holidays, my work schedule, my mom having surgery and getting things ready for Paradise for my cousin's wedding I'm starting on the first as my piece for the new start 2015 SAL (link on the right). 

My mom ended up having to have emergency surgery to have part of her intestine removed.  They weren't sure what happened but discovered later that she ended up swallowing a tiny piece of bone which ripped a hole in it.  Luckily the surgery was successful and they didn't have to remove as much as they thought.  But she's supposed to get out of the hospital tomorrow and still isn't able to process food very well so we'll see how it goes.  And she's obviously still in a lot of pain but she's trying to use the painkillers as little as possible.

And finally getting ready for my SAL is taking forever!  I've started the grid on my fabric which I dyed several weeks ago.  I'm actually using a pen for this instead of floss because it kept getting caught in my stitching floss.  I didn't think it would take that long but I think I'm being heavy handed with it since it's my first time using it and my fabric is blue.

It's easier to see in person.  But the thing that's taking the most time is creating my quote to go on the top of my pattern.  My cousin loves beaches but since it's for her wedding I wanted to put a life quote on top with their names and wedding date so it was more meaningful.  The pattern is so big that I couldn't use any free pattern makers and didn't like the fonts they had for the pay ones so I utilized my hubby's computer/photoshop skills.  He created a grid for me (without the darkened 10th line) and used a font I liked to start the chart.  Then I uploaded it to MS Paint, added the darkened grid markers and numbered the lines so I could stitch easier later.  Then I finally had to go through and remove/add spots around the letters so there were no partial stitches in the design.  I didn't realize it would take so long but I'm finally finished so I'm all set to start on the first!  I'm going to be going back and forth between the two charts so I hope I don't confuse myself.

Sorry about the long post my next one will be before New Year's and will mostly be about Christmas since I probably won't get much stitching in with my crazy work schedule.  I work at a theme park so I'll be working both Christmas and New Year's.  Drag.  And all of my off days are taken up by my DH wanting to go to see Christmas stuff around the parks.  But our Chanukah so far has been great.  He's Jewish so we celebrate both holidays.  It ends this year on Christmas Eve.

Well that's all for now hope I didn't bore you all!

Until next time,
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!  Hope they're filled with friends, family and fun and you all get lots of stitching supplies!