Really it is! I kid you not! Today is the national ride your bike to work day. These days I don’t have far enough to ride my bike to work, but I love the idea. It is a great way to exercise, diminish the traffic and a way to help the environment by diminishing the emissions.

This new canvas by Alice Peterson was quite the hit at the Dallas Market! Even though I have already showed you this canvas…it is so wonderful that I am using it again. I am anxiously awaiting my canvas as I have put this on my must need to stitch sometime in this lifetime list. There was another new bicycle too and as soon as I have it in my hot little hands, I will share it with you too…but my picture of it was not ready for prime time publication!

So instead I am stitching on this one! canvas by Alice Peterson. I swear I think I have every teal, aqua, fuchsia, red/pink thread and bead out of my stash and strewn about in my stitching area…and I bought several new threads too. I was convinced that Kreinik 024 Fuchsia was the color, but there really is more red in it, but yet not a true red, so I am going to try 421 Azalea. You know it is scary when you talk in Kreinik numbers! I have Silk Lame´ Braid to try, the new Sulky Holoshimmer and ooh so much more.

This will get all of my stitching attention this weekend as I am getting this ready for a very special date! A date to teach this bicycle at the Enriched Stitch in the latter part of July along with the Trick or Treat piece of Raymond Crawford’s.

Another great bicycle to ride to work would be this wonderful one by Melissa Shirley Designs. I love this…now just change that canvas to a little black kitty in the basket and I would stitch this in a heart beat!

AlleyCat was the great escape artist and looks like she was just craving the sun, so I let her be for a moment or two. By the time I came back to the front door…guess who was waiting for me?

Such a silly girl! and until next time…keep on stitching