My French Garden...

Here is my progress so far with Mystery IX - The King's Vegetable Garden by Martina.  I know it isn't much, but I am getting there.  I still have about two and a half weeks before installment #2.  Some ladies are already finished--speedy stitchers!  If I dedicated my stitching time exclusively to this I would be much farther, but you know I always have several things going at once.  It is a bit strange for me as this is stitched with silks and we are using two plies rather than the normal single ply.  As this is 32 count, it has a much fuller look, I guess with two plies.  I am so used to Drawn Thread and Shepherds Bush--they both use one ply for this count, so I have to get used to this.  The only problem so far are the very few little stitches on the bottom that are in blue that are using perl (silks).  They seem very bulky to me, and I think I will post to one of the Mystery groups and see if I am doing this correctly.  I am sure perl is used as it comes off the spool or card.  I may change that--we'll see.  I hope to work on this a bit over the weekend, but I have several things calling my name--I told myself I would finish up PS-January into a cushion, also the Victoria Sampler online class started today (so I need to go and download or print out the information), and I also need to work on a couple of Valentine's Day projects.  I have yet to start those!  The end of the month is coming up faster than I think, and they both need to be mailed.  I guess it is a good thing it is a three day weekend!