It's been a lovely weekend so far. Todd surprised me with a "gourmet dining experience" on Valentine's Day.
It was a privately catered event and the food was excellent! The chef classified his style as 'sophisticated southern.' We were served a four course meal which included a deconstructed Southern Greek salad, seared scallops, braised short ribs, and for dessert . . .
Red velvet cake with a cheesecake center, topped with white chocolate ganache. YUM!
Backing up a bit, I spent Thursday evening with the grandgirls and gifted them with their Valentines.
Edith was particularly enthralled with hers and went through her 'goodies' very carefully, several times! ♥
I've gotten some stitching in, too. I worked up Block 40--Art Square--from Grandmother's Choice.
It went together fairly easily, and I should probably do more than one of these every couple of weeks if I want to actually finish it! I've got SO much of the fabric. I really need to do something with it!
I played around with the new Kathy Schmitz heart printed embroidery I got earlier this week, too . . .
This is really fun to stitch on! For some reason I first thought there was just outline or straight stitching on it, but there are actually quite a few different types of stitches to work out, and I like that!
Finally, I've continued to work on the Peppermint Purple Blackwork SAL piece. Since I had finished week 7's block, I decided to go ahead and work out the block outlines for the rest of the year.
Nine rows down and four rows to go; then I need to decide on borders. It's fun, easy stitching and probably what I'll work on this afternoon for my slow Sunday stitching!
Wrapping it up ... be sure to head over to Kathy's Quilts to check out what other slow stitching is happening today!
Happy Sunday ... I hope you get to enjoy a holiday Monday--I know I sure will!
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What lovely projects! Your stitchery projects look like fun. That Valentine meal sounds yummy!!
What a fun surprise you got Friday! The food sounds amazing. Your GC block is very pretty and that stitchery is so fun.
Oh my...I could definitely work my way around that cake.
Sounds like you had a lovely Valentine's Day! That Kathy Schmitz printed heart looks fun to work on. And the blackwork piece, too - wow! I'll have to go take a look at those links.
What a fun and unique treat for Valentine's Day!
I love your cross stitching... That is very pretty!
Sounds like a wonderful Valentine surprise!
Love that shot of Edith going through her loot. :)
I am particularly intrigued by your purple blackwork.
I really love the blackwork that you are working on. I have yet to try that technique. That Kathy Schmitz heart is beautiful. I can see that there must be quite a few different stitches to work on in between the different colors of that heart. Enjoy that stitching that piece. I like the fabrics in your Grandmother's choice block. Finally, Edith is adorable.
Very cute to see the little ones, especially when they dress alike. Yes caught up on your posts now. I worked a small picture in black work once, many years ago. Yours is coming along nicely and I like the different colour in the squares. I too hate trying to embroider with metallic threads. A lovely Valentines for the two of you...looking so happy there in that wonderful photo.
What a fun Valentine's surprise. The running joke with us was that we'd been dubbed unromantic by the SIT, our Valentine's gift was coming home and just hanging out together. Hope you get in lots of hand stitching time this week. Both of your hand stitching projects look like fun.
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