Weekly Cross Stitch Update #15

Greetings from my Cross Stitch Citadel!

How's the social distancing going? Is anyone getting any stitching done?

Sorry for not posting in awhile! I wanted to give Kanagawa an extra week, because I hadn't stitched on it much during the first week.

For the past few days the weather here has been really dark and dreary. But the temperature is cooling down too, so that's nice. This is such weird weather for the end of March.

Progress on the Great Wave off Kanagawa

I apologize for the poor lighting in these pictures, but like I said; it's a really dark day outside!

Here's what it looked like the last time you saw it:

before

And here's what it looks like now:

after

"But wait!" you're saying, "What about the page finish you were talking about in the last blog post?!" I know, I'm asking myself that question too. But at least I made some progress on the sky!

Next in the rotation is...

Drum roll, drum roll, drum roll...

Contemporary Flag!

Wow! It's been a bit since I've stitched on this one. Ok, for real this time I'm shooting for a page finish.

Stay safe, keep stitching, and I'll see you next week!

Happy Stitching!

Marisol

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