Kinda Weird Looking

This is a new start.  Hands to Work Designs - This is the Day.
From Cross Stitch magazine.  Using fancy flosses.  
It suggests Autumn Gold linen - which would be all these oranges on golden yellow.
I changed it to Colour and Cotton - Haunted - 28 count lugana, one over one.  It's more of a mottled gray. 
My local needlework shop is closing soon.  I got fancy floss at 20% off to help them, and to help me while they still had most of the colors.  Today I went back thinking they would not have much left.  It's all 40% off now, and they still had lots.  Patterns were 55% off.  I got more fancy floss to retry the Blackbird pattern that I trashed last time.  I got a Blackbird Designs book and the the floss to do a couple of the patterns in that. 
I went and gave blood platelets.  The employees say the management is screwing with them, and also irking the donors by calling them constantly.  I cancelled a couple of appts at 3am, when I got up at noon, they had already called and left a message asking me to come and give blood.  It had not even been 12 hours since I cancelled.  When I was going weekly - they weren't happy.  And when I stopped going weekly, they called saying - can you give this week?  I can see where that irks people.
At this point - I just am just doing what works for me.  

Knowing when to quit...

This is Blackbird Designs - Midnight Watch.
This is now a fail - and a tossed in the trash project.  I like the pattern.  I tried it on mushroom evenweave 28 count.  But some of the colors just crash on this fabric.  On the right side, there is a star that shows, and another that disappears.  The moon floss I changed three times?  It's just not working for me color wise, and I just keep beating my head.  I am done beating my head. 

Lizzie Kate - Wouldn't Life Be Great.
A Finish.  Stitched on 28 count Ivory jobelan.  Camera sucks once again. 
This was 15th finish for 2019.

Fun Stitching...

 Prairie Schooler - Christmas Sampler from Christmas Samplers 2.
A finish.  Changed the front of the house to the red - the floss called for matched my choice of fabrics.  The holly around the Christmas letters was supposed to be a mint green - which was just not good.  Used the same green as the rest.  Skipped back stitching the windows - over one - it would have been a blob because I stitch one over one on 28 count. The windows are three wide, needing two vertical threads, plus one cross thread.  Possible - but it would just blacken out the windows.   
I was excited that I had a finish, the first one since making my list of started things.  But on my list - I didn't write down this one.  And I knew the list wasn't a complete, live or die by it list.  I added it. 
And then wrote down a finished date.  But kinda sad, kinda funny, that even my list sucks.  At least I can laugh about it.

Lizzie Kate - Wouldn't Life Be Great.
Called for flosses.  This was the missing photo from my binge starting.  Need to finish just a couple of words in the lighter brown, and this half will be complete.  I am enjoying it. 

Progress then ....

 Plum Street - Friends of the Hart.
Above is where I picked it back up.  Below is what I got done before it went back in the pile again.

Then I just  grabbed other stuff to start...

Heartstring Samplery - Simple Living Sampler.
Fancy flosses.  But the colors are not my taste.  I like the sampler, I'm trying it in the suggested flosses, you never know.  Antique White jobelan 28 count.

Stacy Nash Primitives - Hallowe'en Jack Sewing Roll.
Colour and Cotton Jazlyn 28 count in Steel.  Dmc 310.

With Thy Needle and Thread - Fruit For a Song CS49.
Uses all dmc and nothing fancy.  Photo sucks.  On Colour and Cotton - Alabaster 32 ct jobelan.
Trying it 1 over 2 - which I rarely try.  But with the large grass area, and using dmc, I can try a hunk at a time.
** And I did see I also started another Lizzie Kate - Wouldn't It Be Nice....  forgot that one...
Today I switched and grabbed something from the stuff I have started.  I have started way too many new things lately.  I need a finish.  I was really happy with the top one and the progress, and then just went off the rails. 

Add it to the pile...

Lizzie Kate - ABC's of Parenting.
Doing it on a Light Gray jobelan, 28 count, one over one.  

This was my new start.  It came with the flosses.  But mine came with the alternate Weeks flosses, not the original Classic Colorworks suggested.  So I bought the original flosses too. 
Above is both versions side by side. 
I was only able to get two of the word color flosses, so I had wanted to start this and see if that was gonna be enough.  And I am more than halfway, so it should be.  
More than half in just a couple days - more than happy with that.  But also burnt out on it.

All over the Map...

With Thy Needle and Thread - Spring Fling.
This is that Rabbit head with flowers on a suggested pink fabric.
The first thing the instructions say is to dye the pink called for fabric darker with a red wine.
The short version is - I changed fabrics.  Color and Cotton, 28 count in Storm or Steel evenweave.
It's a blue/gray.  As usual, the camera flash makes it nothing like the photo.  White rabbits and pink flowers will pop off the darker gray nicely.  I bought wine and will try dyeing the suggested fabric in future.  But it was such a long story of re-starting this, that I am done for a while.  

Courtney Collection - Mermaid's Folly.
I tried to continue, even up to last night.  But my progress has slowed to almost nothing. 
Went along the bottom 4 pages to get me to the corner.  I finished the corner page. 
So 13 of 24 pages completed.  Planning on a different stash project start next.