Half the pages - and sorting...

Courtney Collection - Mermaid's Folly.
12 of 24 pages completed.

With a skein of dmc floss to show scale.  I have seen people stitching this and it can be really big.  And it's lovely really big.  But mine isn't big.  Saying I have 12 of 24 pages completed gives no scale.

This year has been my - stitch on the stuff you already started - plan.  This is not a brag or anything like that.  It was MY mess, but I really had no clue the size of the mess.  The photos are after my sorting and organizing.  I would buy a tote bin and put stuff in it.  And then get another bin.  Buy stuff that seemed to be going out of print, or was out of print.  These photos are same stuff, different angles.  I counted my started things, I wanted an approximate number.   That number is 75.  It's not the real number, there are more started things on a sewing room table pile.  In the photo are a bunch of kitted but not started things.  Not 75 more, but I didn't count those.  It is not my other patterns, or finished patterns, or fabric stash.  That is in stackable plastic totes. There are not things with just a hundred stitches, or a dozen stitches.  They are real projects I have multiple stitching days on.  

I was honestly wanting to order some pattern.  A bit like a junkie to be honest.  I was looking at something from market...  The first handful of stuff I grabbed out to sort - had the market pattern I was gonna order.  Meaning I do not know what I already have.  And exactly WHY I needed to sort and organize what I already have.  And I used to have an excel spreadsheet with designer and pattern names and stitch counts of all the patterns I have - but eventually, you don't update that anymore.  Seeing what I already have - I don't need MORE.  I want to stitch the things I have.  In all the patterns I handled while sorting, I did not reconsider a single one.  And I don't want to order more. 

Almost Half...

Back to Courtney Collection - Mermaid's Folly
Above photo is where I picked it back up.
28 count PTP Brash, dmc 310 black.  One over one.
The pattern is 24 pages, my goal was to fill in and to get to the point of half the pages completed. 
I had 9 pages completed.

Filled in the centers of two pages, giving me 11 pages completed now.  Some pages just have longer runs of stitches, and those grind on me.  I am trying to do just a grid block at a time, anything to make sure I don't count wrong.  Those long runs of thirty stitches, skip one, twenty more, skip one....
I just have to take smaller bites.  

It's Finished - Hooray.

Courtney Collection - Pelican.
On 28 count PTP Doubloon.  One over one, used 7 full skeins of DMC 938.
Finished at 13 x 10.5 inches.  20 pages.
This is sort of accurate for color.  Actually, it kind of changes with the lighting. 
I am glad to be done, and happy with the result. 

19 out of 20 completed

Pelican - Courtney Collection.
19 out of 20 pages completed.   So close. 
Under 3000 stitches to do now. 

18 of 20 pages completed

This was the weird new start - Escher - Heaven and Hell - Cross Stitch Collectibles. 
It's 12 pages - and I completed 5.  It's solid.  One over one on 25 count.  It should finish at 8 inches in diameter.  Haven't done an Escher in a while, it's not gonna be my favorite, but it fit on the scrap of 25 count that was in my stash, and I had the pattern.  It was certainly different from the other things I have been stitching.  The angels are a light gray, there is a bit of white, and a bit of black, but mostly gray scale. 

And I said after a break, I would come back to Pelican - Courtney Collection.
Finished the page in the second row.  Now just have the first two pages.  18 out of 20 completed so far.  Just finished the sixth skein of dmc.  One over one on 28 counts PTP Doubloon.