If you don't enjoy reading about personal issues, you can skip down a few paragraphs. But for anyone interested, I was diagnosed with Grave's Disease about a year and a half ago. Graves is a form of hyperthyroidism, which means my body makes too much thyroid hormone. It's sort of like my body's thermostat is permanently set too high.
Anyway, long story short, I've tried a few different treatments, gone through a lot of tests, and my doctor and I came to the conclusion that either my thyroid needed to come out, or it needed to be killed. So at the beginning of the month I took a large dose of radioactive Iodine 131 isotope, which left me in quarantine for 5 days. I'm still kind of dealing with the after effects of that, which is why things have been slow in the stitching front.
So personal issues over.
In other (more happy) news, our little kitten is getting so big. Her official name is Bitty (as in itty bitty) because she was so tiny when we found her and we decided that it will be ironic when she's full grown. She and Brownie have finally decided they kind of like each other. I snapped this pic of them being all sneaky and sleeping together in the same cat bed when I was in my 5 day isolation.
On the stitching front, I finished my portion of the Gingerbread Lane project for the second to last round of the Frosted Pumpkin Round Robin group on Facebook:
Sadly I forgot to take a picture of the whole thing as it looks so far before sending it off, but it was a super cute project that I might stitch myself one day.
I also started on Autumn Sampler, which will be my last project for the Frosted Pumpkin Round Robin (except finishing my own project, of course). This pattern was temporarily discontinued, although the designers brought it back after popular demand. I bought the winter version of this in February or March, and I'm liking this one so much that if they also decide to re-release the spring version, I might just also purchase autumn, spring, and summer so I have a full set.
For my piece I'm stitching 2 of the 25 boxes the sampler is divided into. I've finished one, a night forest landscape with a big harvest moon, and have started on the second, an acorn with oak leaves. Here's what the forest looked like when I finished with it:
I also finished my first project for the Sampler Round Robin that started in September. This is what my portion of the Jane Austen sampler I showed last time looked like when done:
And here's what it looked like as a whole before sending it off. It's really cute, I bet it will look great when it's all done.
Next I need to start my second sampler project which I just got in the mail. That one will be a quilt block style sampler if I remember correctly (still need to pull it out of the envelope). The sad thing is, I still haven't started up my Christmas gift stitching, and I really need to get that done if I want to finish in time. Hmmmm...
