Great Day!

   I couldn't figure out why I'm so stressed and tired all the time. I'm every bit as tired now as when my little nestling was a newborn. But then I stepped back to take a look and - I'm busy! Embroidering, Correspondence school (guess I haven't mentioned that yet!) adjusting to a new schedule in a new house. Fixing things around the house...oh and all the regular things too. Raising a 3 year old, keeping house. Never mind that pesky insomnia!

 I've been hearing a lot of criticism too. When you follow the God of the Bible you will more often than not go against the things of this world. People don’t understand that so they attack. Follow Christ anyway. Not a God of your own making but the God of the Bible. 

So, for the last couple days Husband and I have taken a step back to remind ourselves that we serve an audience of One. We took the time as a family to read the children's book "You Are Special" by Max Lucado. and started telling each other how much we appreciate about the other. Everyone has shortcomings. No person is any better than another. Everyone has faults. But we love each other "warts and all". It's such a refreshing exercise in truth and reaffirmation of why we got married. Marriage represents the relationship between Christ and the church.

I don't have any embroidery to share today. I have a pillowcase kit started. A beautiful gift from my Mother-in-love. In fact I have lots of projects started and one I may revisit soon is a crosstitch verse that I started some time ago and really need to find and finish it(I think we'll be unpacking for the next 10 years!).

In the mean time, I challenge you to talk with your spouse (or God if you are not married) about all the ways you may compliment each other in what may appear to others to be flaws.

P.S. I'm sharing this post in a link up over at Wholehearted Home, you might want to pop over there and look at the other great links that glorify God! 

Hey! Why the change?

There is an actual place called Sparrow Cottage. I didn't want to plagiarize that name so I changed my blog name.
I hope I didn't mess anyone up to badly!

Burgundy Rose

   Once again this is a Trish Burr pattern. This time however I didn't alter it in any way.  I think there are a dozen or so colors in this rose. I finished this one in a 4" wooden hoop. Backing the piece with cream flannel. It needed a little something but since it's a gift for a man I needed it to still be masculine. Rope worked! This is the kind of rope that you might use to hold your drapes back. and a crisp green bow and loop for hanging and covering the hoop screw. 

   My Mom is putting the binding on my dear friend's baby blanket but pics of that may be coming soon. My next big project (I think) will be a monogram piece. I'm just now in the brainstorming phase though. 

  I'm thinking about using a Sajou design for the Monogram. Speaking of which I'd like to thank Ramzi for his generosity in putting so much time into getting these antique patterns to all of us and for sharing them with all of us. Once I decide on a monogram pattern there is the question of what to put it on. Pillow cases have been suggested and they are a real possibility. The only exception to that is if I decide to use metallic threads.  I was looking at my own monogram today and realized that there is an un-filled dot that I never noticed! I'll probably do another one...someday!

   That's it for tonight, now scoot over and look through Ramzi's monograms!

May God bless you