Making Progress

 Bit by bit. I’ve got the hard part finished. Goal is to finish before the end of December. By then I’ll have some pieces to pick up at the framers and I can drop this off. 

Current Project

There's a plethora of designs, projects, and classes available online. One I stumbled across this past year is the Stitching Book Club on Instagram. This is run by Kristin Ashley of Sapphire Mountain Handcrafts.

I've purchased a couple of her designs and I just started Frankenstein. 

But Little Women I started with the book club. I'm using the called for DMC floss. And paired them with this pinky/lavender fabric that reminds me of the Scholastic Books edition of Little Women that I bought in third grade. I think it cost 95¢. I always regretted leaving that book behind when I moved out of my childhood home. (Along with about 500 other books.)

Signs

Background 

Back, way back, July of 2020, I was running our EGA Chapter's Zoom meeting and one thing we usually do in July is show our pieces that meet our President's Challenge. And then we announce our new challenge. 

So it being my second year as President, I got to pick a challenge. And I decided that the challenge would be signs. 

I knew what I wanted to do from the beginning and I ran out of time to do it. So instead to meet my own challenge I stitched this Kate Dickerson canvas. 

A little bit of bling, some beads and this totally in my wheelhouse color pallette. Love it. 
 

Framed

 Well, well, well. I let six weeks go by without posting. Here’s my Oh Canada framed by Total Framing.

Sampler Finish

 Charland Designs band sampler finished. The date on the chart is 1996. I think I started this maybe 2 years ago? Sometime after I finished her Irish Sampler.

I love band samplers for the variety of stitches and because they usually are narrow, if you find something that you dislike, you don't have to stitch it for very long.

Two slight changes. Two bands was supposed to be alternating cross and algerian eyelets. That just looked messy so all eyelets.

The second time I did four sided stitch.

It's cute and I love it. 

September Update

JA beautiful for stitching outside. My current Charland Designs band sampler. This is my second one. I have 4 or 5 more. Next up will be the Welsh one. 

And tonight I finished mu Cooper Oaks Swan. Next up, pillow finishing. Not by me, I pay a professional. 

Canadian Primitive #3

 

This little pulled work band is killing me. I can go all the way down and back before I see my mistake. Oof. But it's pretty. 

September and the Light Changes

 Because of a blogger, I discovered the Bloggess right before she wrote about the big metal chicken. I still read Jenny today and purchase her books. And try to absorb some of her hard learned lessons. So today Amazon brought me my first light therapy box.

Because I know I suffer from seasonal affective disorder. I can tell even in August that the light is changing. We'll see if this helps.

On the stitching front, I finished a gift piece. No photos allowed. And I wasn't feeling inspired to pick up any of my current works in progress.

Because I have been organizing (yet again) this Charland Designs sampler popped up. I did not have the right colors of Flower Thread so I'm substituting DMC Linen Thread. I hope this works for the pulled work.

I love these little Charland samplers. Fun stitches, not too big so I don't get bogged down. 

Continuing my UFO Tour

 When does something lose WIP status and become a UFO?

Maybe when you can’t remember the last time you worked on it? 

I started this project in 2006. It’s the Tsunami Charity Sampler from SANQ. Designed by Martina Dey. I was attracted to right from the start. I spent a lot of time changing my threads from silks to overdyed cottons. Everything in here is Gentle Arts or Crescent Colors. The linen is 32ct Magnolia by Picture This Plus.

That motif on the left is the halfway point. I’ve got more than half left to stitch. But there’s no time like 2021!

Threads

What's available now? Anchor Tapestry Wool and six stranded floss. 
Where?This is my local Michaels. I hear JoAnn's has the floss, too, but haven't confirmed it for myself yet.