Lots of Pics Gifts, Round Robins and Puppies

I have lots of pictures to share :-). First is my PIF from Su, it's gorgeous. It took the long way around to get here, Su mailed it weeks and weeks ago. I love it, it's so pretty and delicate.

I also received a wonderful gift from Annemarie. It's a floss holder. She is just the sweetest person and I am so happy to have something she made for me.

I've been busy working on round robins, my goal is to get caught up so I can work on other things. I have two more to go. I think in the future instead of waiting until close to the mailing dates I am going to kit up the pieces and finish them right away. This piece is Lynn's, she's a part of the Welcome to Our Neighborhood group.

This round robin belongs to Cathy. We are doing the Hello Neighbor Group 3 round robin together. She asked if we would stitch something with things significant to where we live. I did lots of pine trees and my favorite birds, bluebirds.

Also on the round robin front, I did finally get my other neighborhood round robin back from Lauren. A day late and a dollar short but at least it is home. At this point I am not sure what I am going to do with it, I've already started the second one and it's the same as the first so using it for another group isn't an option. I have made up my mind that I have done enough round robins. I've enjoyed every one in spite of the little hiccups here and there but I have a lifetime's worth of stash to stitch. I am going to start being a bit selfish with my stitching.

I've started ATS again, for the third time. I decided to go ahead and put ATS back on the scroll bars. I thought it would be a good idea to damp press it, the dye ran :-(. In my defense I had done it a couple of times before with no problem. I thought it might work if I put a teeny, tiny bit of diluted bleach on a Q-Tip and try to fix it. Not so much, I totally ruined it. So I have officially started over once again. I must really want to do this piece a lot. My other projects are one the BBD loose feathers and the new Toccata Four. My friend Karin and I are going to do a stitchalong on Toccata Four. We are hoping to be finished by the end of the summer.

I will leave you with a couple more pictures of our puppies. They have so much energy, they are lots of fun. Hope you all are well and getting lots of stitching time :-).