O Canada

What can I say? It was an awesome game and we won the gold! I am so proud to be Canadian. 

Stitching and frogging and stitching again

Last time I posted an update on Heart of the Valley I noticed that I made a boo boo...

 

Yep, right there, I'm off of one stitch! So I frogged it all out...

  

and started all over again... My battle with silk floss is over, I've won! Now I even like to work with it:

 

It is looking better and better!

Canada thrashed Russia

What a game it was! Before the game Russians were so sure of their win:

“Let's get the guillotine or the gallows out, yeah?” Bykov sneered at Sovietski Sport. “We have 35 people in the squad. Let’s cut them all up on Red Square.”

 

Well... the Red Machine run into our Maple Tree and DIED! 7:3!!!

Heart of the Valley update

It's been a good weekend. So far I studied a little, stitched a little and watched Olympic games a lot. Here is my Heart of the Valley:

 

It is my first time of stitching with silk floss. Flowers inside the heart I stitched with 2 strands  of floss and I was having a battle with the tension. So, the rest I'm stitching with single thread and it is a little easier...

How are you getting ready for Easter?

Yesterday was Ash Wednesday, first day of the 40-day Lent season. Many Christians giving up something for that time and do fasting. I look on that fasting a little closer and according to catholic on-line:

"Fasting: The law of fasting requires a Catholic from the 18th Birthday (Canon 97) to the 59th Birthday (i.e. the beginning of the 60th year, a year which will be completed on the 60th birthday) to reduce the amount of food eaten from normal. The Church defines this as one meal a day, and two smaller meals which if added together would not exceed the main meal in quantity. Such fasting is obligatory on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. The fast is broken by eating between meals and by drinks which could be considered food (milk shakes, but not milk). Alcoholic beverages do not break the fast; however, they seem to be contrary to the spirit of doing penance."

Well, I think it is a good and healthy thing to have smaller portions specially when so many of us trying to loose weight, me included. So I'm all for fasting that goes along above rules (I love it! I'm aloud to have a beer or glass of wine while watching winter olympic games). And I decided that instead of giving up something I will take time to reflect and have a good look at my spirituality.

And I will stitch Jesus. Many of you remember my ebay purchase of a beautiful chart with fucking instruction in Chinese. Well, that project became UFO (unfinished object) because I gave up on those instructions (can you blame me?). But since I joined Kelly's UFO Tuesdays I decided to buy another kit (exactly the same but all instructions in English) and give it another try. Since I do not like to stitch on 14ct aida any more, I will exchange fabric for 28ct evenweave and I think it will look awesome. I will start stitching it right after I finish Heart of the Valley (this year I do not rotate projects to avoid future UFOs).

Do you celebrate Easter? How do you prepare for it?