A new project and cross stitch progress

Last night I had a suprise visit from my nephew who has the band. He was on my side of town to buy an bass amp. He brought it to me so I could make a cover for it.

He brought the cover I had made for another one of his amps so I could make the new cover the same way except for one minor change. He wants a zippered pocket for the cords, picks, and tuner. That will be easy enough. I used the car cover fabric, put a layer of batting, then backed it with flannel and quilted the pieces before I sewed the cover together.

We use to have to bring our own PA system to some gigs. Several years ago after we got caught in a horrible storm, my brother wanted me to make covers for the PA speakers. I made one, but shortly after that we were not booking any gigs where we had to furnish the PA system. Michael brought me the one cover I made for the PA speakers to cut up and use the fabric for his new bass amp. No sense in wasting all that fabric! I figure this will be a project for this weekend.

I made great progress on the pastel deer pillow cover. This is so much more enjoyable to stitch than the black one was. I was so bored stitching black thread. Here is where I was on 9/9/2021 and where I am today.

Here is a close up so you can see the color better. I am using one strand folded in half so the colors blend most of the time, but there are times where I get just pink stitches or just lavender/periwinkle stitches.