Sunday Afternoon with Anna T and the Steelers

Mimi and I spent most of the afternoon on the sofa with stitching and football. She was more interested in snoozing than in either of those but that meant she wasn't messing with my thread or trying to lay on my lap while I stitched, so that was okay.

Well, so the Steelers lost but it was a pretty good game anyway. They played the Baltimore Ravens and the two teams were pretty evenly matched, so it was a good, close game. I don't like run-aways.

Here's my progress on Anna Thies:

Today's progress was the leaf to the left of the red rose. After I finished that bit, I moved down to the bottom of the wreath to start on the third of the four roses. It won't have as many color changes as the other roses so I hope it won't be as fiddly and will stitch up a little faster. Once I finish this wreath, everything else should go a little more quickly.

We got part 2 of the mini-SAL that Eva is doing on her blog; there are more Algerian eye stitches and we start the roses. The roses are done with straight stitches and look simple, but they'll be very pretty. I'll try to do a little bit this week but...

There probably won't be much stitching -- or anything else -- done this coming week; we were told on Friday at work that everyone has to put in 10 hours of overtime this week to help clear up some of our backlog. I've never been a fan of mandatory overtime but at this point all I can do is grit my teeth and do it. I think if I get up 15 minutes earlier each day I can probably put in 1/2 hour in the morning and 1-1/2 hours at the end of the day and still get home at a half-way decent time. Grrrrr!

Everyone have a good week -- happy stitching!