Country life and a stitch-in

So last Saturday was the guild's all day stitch-in and I woke up to this in my driveway!  Yep, you know you live in the country when there's a combine, that doesn't belong to you, parked in your driveway.   This seriously does not happen in the burbs!  LOL!

Actually, it's owner did ask permission to leave it overnight. Apparently it threw a fanbelt and was overheating. Our driveway was big enough for him to pull it off the road so he could investigate the problem.

I had been sitting on the couch stitching when I noticed headlights reflecting on the wall in the foyer.  So I got up to see who was out there.  I knew it was too soon for my honey to be coming home.  When I first looked out I thought it was my neighbor and didn't think too much of it.  He's been running corn lately on another farm. 

Turns out it wasn't my neighbor but another farmer from down the road.  He asked to leave it since it was too hot to work on it at that hour.  So yep, I woke up to a new "vehicle" in my driveway.

Thankfully he was able to pull it over far enough for me to get my car around it and still keep it on the concrete without wrecking the yard.  I sure wouldn't want to have that get stuck in the grass!  It's always some kind of unique excitement when you live in the country!

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We had a good turnout at the stitch-in.  I always like to try to go if I can.  We have an amazing group of very talented folks in our guild.  I always look forward to getting together and seeing what everyone is working on.

I took my Ellen Maurer-Stroh BAP.  I was able to make some pretty good progress on my November's "assignment."  It's almost finished and hope to wrap it up this weekend.  I'll be sure to post about it when I get it done.  One more month and it will be complete!

Let's look at some of the wonderful Show and Tell folks brought.  I'm always so inspired after these get togethers!  We really are a talented group.

This one is so pretty.  I love it!

 

 

This is one of those that the more you look at it the more you see.



This one was done by my peep, Marsha.  It turned out so nice!

I've not seen this one before!  I've always loved this old church song. 

This was one of the guild's class pieces from this year.  It's a Mexican sampler by Ellen Cross.

My dear friend, Nicole, made this one.  I had to shoot it from an awkward angle since it was so big! She likes to do really large samplers.  This piece is almost as tall as she is!!!  It's amazing to see in person.  EDITED:  I found out this is the first phase of Dutch Beauty.  Nicole didn't want to stitch the whole thing so she just did this part and filled in a few spots with random motifs.

I hope you enjoyed seeing some of the things I saw.  I wish I would have taken even more pictures to share with you.  I get caught up visiting and forget sometimes.  Imagine that?!

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Well, I'm going to go back to my stitching.  I hope you are able to get some couch time this weekend too.  Thank you for your sweet comments and for your visits with me.  I really do enjoy our time together.


Until next time,

The Inspired Stitcher