Cross stitch and grout

No quilting yesterday, but I was plenty busy! I was digging up plants that will be going to Wanda and my neighbor arrived home. We talked a bit and he was going to mow his grass. I was looking at mine and it definitely needed a haircut too so instead of quilting I mowed and trimmed the front and side yard. After that it was a load of laundry and making another batch of black bean soup. I dried the cross stitch fabric I had dyed. It turned out good except the upper left was suppose to be more blue. It is still useable. I can always dye more and try again! Dyeing this Lugana/Monaco fabric closed up the spaces between the threads so it will be interesting to see how this fabric now stitches.

I made some great progress on the Birds of a Feather cross stitch. Here is where I was last Tuesday and where I am now.

I was running out of the dark olive green thread called caper. A trip to the store for one skein of floss - ugh! I was looking around and found some floss I had hand dyed a few months ago. I was just playing around and cannot remember why I was dyeing it, but the olive green I had dyed is a perfect match to the caper! How about that!

Another stroke of luck was that when I went to the Home Depot to see if they had the grout I had used before for the tile floors in the bathrooms was still available. Yes, it was and they had little containers of the color I needed! Some of the grout came out of the joints in one area of the upstairs bathroom and I need to fix that. The grout that was leftover had gotten hard and yucky so thus a new container was needed. I think I might have gotten too much water on the floor when I was cleaning up the excess grout. This needs to be done as part of getting this bathroom finished. I will show pictures once I do the work.  I had taken a picture of the old grout container before I pitched it so I would get the right color. 

Now that the weather is cooling off I will be walking instead of stitching at lunchtime. Meanwhile, I had a big day yesterday walking when I went to Home Depot and Walmart to pick up a few things. I always park way out from the entrances so I get some walking in. The cheddar dot is where I parked.

So with all those steps I got in yesterday, I received my Fitbit Russian Railway badge for walking the length of the Trans-Siberian Railway. I haven't been walking that much this summer; it has been just too hot, but it was fun to get this badge anyway.