Mystery Class Lesson Two.........................Curios is continuing with Lesson two.  Area 7 is almost square and has a very interesting border in two colors.  The center is Watercolours and Rainbow Gallery Silk Lame.

 

Area 8 is square and the border is Princess Perle and Very Petite Velvet.  The center design is Watercolours with accents of Rainbow Gallery Neon Rays.  The background is stitched with stranded silk, Splendor by Rainbow Gallery.

 

This photo shows the total progress to date.

Happy Mother's Day!!!.........This can be a difficult time for some of us who no longer have our mothers with us.  My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 29, I was 6 and my sister was 7.  Unfortunately, the cancer was advanced and terminal when diagnosed.  Because of our young ages we were not told much about the cancer so what type of breast cancer we never knew except that it had spread to multiple locations in her body.  Mom fought a good fight but died on February 5, 1973, three days after turning 33. 

This is a photo of Mom in the early 70's, she was very creative, sewed her own clothes and would try any DIY project from the women's magazines. 

Cobalt is finished.................Well nothing went according to plan.  I was unable to stitch for two days so my progress was delayed.  I got the car bug and sold my car to a co-worker so I've been test driving cars after work and in the evenings.  Still have more cars to drive but I found time to finish Cobalt so here it is.

Next I will work on Lesson Two of the Mystery Class.

Almost finished................I finished the third quadrant and well on my way to finishing the fourth and final quadrant.  If all goes to plan tomorrow I can finish the design.

Kathy has posted the second lesson of the Mystery Class - Curios which is only available through the Shining Needle Society.  I downloaded and printed the patterns for lesson two and it looks like we are going to have some stitching fun.  Since I am so close to finishing Cobalt I will finish it before starting lesson two.  Be sure to check back over the next few days to see the progress on Curios as I post new photos of lesson two.