The 'Old Man' is still tryng!

After a week of beautiful weather - temperatures in the high teens and low twenties (celsius) - this is what we woke up to again this morning!!!!! Is it ever going to end.

It rained all day yesterday and although the snow was in the forecast I was really hoping it would bypass us.

In order to appease my disappointment, I decided to become a Quilt Detective at Quilting is Murder - A Murder Mystery. I found out about it when I read the Sew Sisters Quilt Shop Blog.

I am an avid mystery reader and love quilts (I have a keen interest do do more quilting if only I there was more hours in the day) so I thought this would be a bit of fun. It is an 8-part mystery (1 chapter a week) and if you sign up as a Quilt Detective you have a chance to win prizes by finding all the weekly clues at the 'Killer Quilt Shops'. Right now I have found all the clues but 1 - as per the information I found on the Facebook Page there is a problem with it that they are currently trying to fix.

I haven't done much stitching this week so I have no progress or finish pictures to post. For the next month I going to concentrating on making a crest for a District Girl Guide camp we are having at the end of the month. I was sweet talked into doing it by a my former Guiding partner when I still had a Brownie Unit. I use to cross stitch crests for our camps back then. She loves the ones I did and thought it would be neat if I did another one. Below is a prototype of what I am stitching. It is done on 14ct Aida but I am stitching the actual ones on 13ct vinyl aida.
I found the Monkey pattern here. I used the monkey on the letter "T".

Happy Stitching and I hope you are all enjoying better weather than we are. (I know they are in Germany - my aunt told my mother this morning that she was planting flowers tomorrow.)