Two Versions of One Stitch

I came home from Auburn all fired up ready to put fall out and it went kaput by Tuesday afternoon. I did enjoy a cooler morning on Tuesday, but the heat is back in full measure. I took the dogs out last night around 9:10 and the heat hit me in the face. Any breeze had died down so I pulled out my phone to look at the temperature. It was 87, but according to the app the real feel was 96. I thought to myself, "Yep! that is about right."

I am going to create fall in the house starting this afternoon. I am going to put out some fall colors in the foyer and a change out a few of my sunflower stitches in the kitchen and just pretend it is fall.

I probably won't pull out all of it until around the 20th or so...just, whatever day around then that I have time, but that will be here before I know it. I don't think the cooler temps will be here by then though.

Let me share some stitching with you. I am still working on my Christmas stockings and that is what I took with me over the Labor Day weekend to Auburn to stitch on. I have three more, so I will share them altogether when finished.
Just before I left I picked up an old October 2015 Just Cross Stitch magazine. This is a wonderful edition. It has tons of fall ones as well as Halloween. These pillows were in this edition as well as the jack-o-lantern I did recently.

In this edition this caught my eye

and I reached in and grabbed a piece of 32 count linen which was called for in the pattern. I didn't have all of the called for colors, but I had the squirrel color and some DMC, so I just looked at the picture and grabbed some colors to match.

I have ended up stitching two of them. The piece of 32 count was so dark. I had thrown it together quickly so I wasn't thinking. I stitched the two squirrels and they seemed fine, but then I reached for the acorns and leaves and began thinking they weren't going to show up so well. I put it aside until I got home. This week in the evenings I pulled out some 28 count lighter and started stitching again. I just kept stitching on both trying to decide which I liked better until I had stitched too far on both of them to stop.

Here is the darker version on 32 count Weeks Tin Roof linen. Up close it looks good, but far away it is a little harder to see the colors.

Here is the lighter version on a 28 count evenweave. The same colors of floss were used.

I can't choose a favorite. I plan to finish both and then use one as a gift. I don't think I will finish them the same way though. The lighter one might get something like the picture in the book, but the darker one will be just a round OR that is what I am thinking.

I need to get busy finishing.

I did get my kitchen light back up.

The picture is right after we finished so no cute scenes in the background. I was just finishing supper and hadn't even finished the dishes, so try to ignore the background and look up!!!

I saved the day because it the light was made for a fan and even though we had found matching chain and a new socket we hadn't counted on the tops being different. I had an old chandelier that I had taken down but saved so we were able to use those parts to hang it anyway. I am good with the results. 

I had our Bible study group over Wednesday night and no one even noticed anything. I guess that means it was only noticeable to me.

Well, that is about all going on here, so I will get busy paying attention to Tucker who is rolling around in his pink walker and terrorizing Gus. Lemony has sense enough to get out of his path. Gus not so much:o)

Enjoy the weekend,

Sandy