Busy Meeting & Stitching

This morning, I was up and found Patrick was thinking ahead of me. I wanted to drop off the garage sale stuff for Colleen. He had it on the table before I even walked out in the living room. Then he put it in the car for me. What a sweet fella! 

He headed up to Olympia for his blood tests. I told him I would pick up his coffee from Starbucks since there was a free on. He couldn't get his usual, but I did get him the Pike's Place coffee on my way home. 

Went to the grange to visit with Geralyn. We had our "group" meeting today but both Sandy's couldn't make it. So, I worked on the bonsai tree. 

It really does need to get done. I put the one next to the strands in. I have one more after this and then it's done as far as the moss goes. I will work on the rest of the tree once I finish this. 

On the way home, stopped to get Patrick's coffee and then went to Colleen's. Dropped of 2 boxes of garage sale stuff and 2 quilt tops. We chatted for a while and found her sister has another quilt done. I told her I was waiting on the fabric Debbie has for the border of the one I have on the wall. Plus, I really want to get my cross stitching done. She gave me my quilt back that is ready. 

I really like how she quilted it. It is a different kind of quilt too. 

Came home. Found a package waiting for me. Sarah Bower made another quilt for us, but it's small. Will try and use that for wheelchair or smaller veteran. Every little bit helps! I won't look a gift horse in the mouth!

Got myself settled and played games for a bit. I received a call from Rainy Dazes Quilt Guild to see if I would do a presentation on Brazilian Embroidery. They had May or September dates available. I decided on May. That is always a good month for me. I was surprised they found me. Guess they called mom and asked for my phone number. Which reminds me, Lisa, Theresa Anderson's sister, called me before I left for BE. Theresa isn't doing will and is expected to pass on soon. Lisa is going to try and make it back on Wednesday. I seem to keep getting bad news when it comes to friends and their health. Sandy went to her doctors today to find out about her surgery on her shoulder. They told her it will be 6 weeks to 3 months of not moving her shoulder. Depending on her damage. Then another 3 months of behaving. Should be interesting with her. 

 Okay, enough bad news. Once I got off the phone for the presentation information, I decided to play my games till the shows of "Jeopardy" and "Family Feud" were on at night, I pulled out my cross stitch to get a few stitches in. 

I worked on the beard and added more red. I did the green yesterday, so I really only did about 400 stitches tonight. It's looking good. Now tomorrow may be another story, since I have a quilter coming over to get some material for a quilt. AND Patrick wants to go to the casino since we won't be able to the rest of the week. Looks like it's back to once a week. He gets bored and this is one way that keeps him busy. 

I was able to work on two projects today. Both are fun to work on, so it was a good day of Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!