In which not much stitching is done, but charts are made ready
I haven’t really stitched much since the weekend and I think my fingers are getting itchy! I have spent the time since the online show doing the production work to create chart files and then printing, printing, printing! Over 200 charts had to be printed – that’s the downside of print on demand.
I did have a break over the weekend, though, as we took a short trip to Austin since some relatives were in town for business. We arrived Friday night and went downtown to check out the action on 6th street:
The husband got us tickets to Esther’s Follies, which was hilarious:
Saturday, I made the husband take me to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center since the bluebonnets were still in bloom:
Of course, we saw lots of wildflowers:
Austin is a good bit dryer than Houston, so we saw plenty of cacti in bloom:
I even caught a bee in the act of pollinating!
We had lunch at an interesting cafe where they serve fresh veggies grown in a garden behind the cafe:
And there was a sleepy cat outside:
The afternoon was spent hitting several bike stores in the area. Our first stop was Mellow Johnny’s which is the shop owned by Lance Armstrong:
There were a bunch of Lance’s racing bikes around the store, including a Tour De France bike:
And a Tour of California bike (I love this paint job):
The cross stitch had to go in for a closer look:
This was our third bicycle shop (I forgot to get a picture of the second):
I just wish we’d had our bicycles to ride between the shops! All that walking was hard on my feet! Finally we made it back to our hotel which was close to the bridge that has all the bats.
Unfortunately, we didn’t get a chance to see the bats, so we’ll have to go back!
When we got back, I had to get to work finishing all my printing:
Now, everything has to be sorted and mailed out and then I can get back to stitching!