There isn’t much in life that I would give up starting off my day watching a baseball game! This morning is the Patriot’s Day game played in Fenway Park with the Red Sox facing their opponents at the same time as the Boston marathon takes place. The one thing that I will give it up for is spending a day with Susan Portra at Newport Needlepoint stitching on my panda. I feel empowered just sitting in her prescence as I attempt to finish the bag!

I did stitch on this most of the day yesterday as I worked out lots of the detail…such as their eyes, compensating stitches in the panda’s face, finishing the tassel on the lantern, starting the gold beading around the blanket, starting the snow that he is walking on, working out the blanket too with all those wonderful compensating stitches and adding the center stitch of Kreinik in the pavillion diamond giving it a wonderful quilted effect!

Finishing this canvas has moved up to the top of my list as my goal is to enter this in the American Needlepoint Guild exhibit this year. Figuring in framing time, I have about a month left! Sounds like allot of time? but really isn’t! So I will hit the road in about an hour and stitch the day away. and until next time…keep on stitching