A weekend of finishes

Happy Dance! Happy Dance! Happy Dance!

Country Seaons: Autumn
Designer: Prairie Schooler
Fabric: 32 count Lambswool Jobelan
Threads: DMC

Last night, I placed the last stitch into Prairie Schooler's Country Season's Autumn. This is the 2nd in the series of 4 which I have stitched. Loved the colors all together but at times it felt like a lot of stitching in brown, brown, brown! This is my first finish of 2011 and I'm hoping to start the next season, Winter, soon.

Original plans was to complete this piece into an ornament but I never made it to the fabric store to pick up the "perfect" backing. I am waiting on the backing fabric to attach the beads because this may change the choice in bead color. Hopefully the upcoming weekend I can spend some time finishing off some ornaments to be packed away for next year.

Another finish was my first book of the year: "A Thread so Thin" by Marie Bostwick. This was the final book in a trilogy called the Cobbled Court series Have you ever read a book you hated to reach the end? Ms. Bostwick's characters are so well developed, the plots (usually several of them) so well planned that the reader feels like the characters come alive in their minds. I love the fact that the book addresses several common, everyday situations that women find themselves involved in and shows how friends pull together to support each other through them. I would recommend this series to anyone who would enjoy a good read.