Progress Continues

2020 - Finish #5
Blackbird Designs - Their Song.
Fancy floss, on a white jobelan 28 count.  Changed a few things.  The bird at the top got fixed.  I made the words - blackbirds and cherries - the entire word the color, not just a few letters as suggested.  Left off the initials and year suggested.  

This is Peace and Plenty - a new start from Blackbird Designs - Sisters booklet.
Fancy floss on ivory 28 count jobelan.  Part of the stuff I bought at the LNS closeout. 
Just tossed into the mix - something new, something not too big.  If I wanted to give up, or switch to something else, I would put a few threads in this as a moment of break.

Picked this back up - Needle Small with Magic Pow'r - Dutch Treat Designs.
This might take more than one round of adding to it again.  I changed the word - pow'r to power, in the text.  But it will be tight. 

Another one off the list...

 Scarlett House - Samplers.
Finish #4 for 2020.  On PTP Ale, 28 count jobelan, one over one, fancy flosses.
I changed the barn gray suggested to dmc darker gray.  I liked the sheep better than the dogs.  The bird in the letter L was done in that barn gray - changed it to red.  The side building next to the house is ecru fancy floss, it doesn't show very well, and the flower tips and the rabbit next to the S were supposed to be that, changed it to the fancy white instead, changed the rabbit to the chocolate floss.  Changed the QR to the darker gray. 

Blackbird Designs - Their Song. 
This looked like there really is not that much more to do.  It's on a white evenweave, fancy flosses. 
But this is what it looked like when I picked it back up. 

Progress adds up eventually...

 Another finish.  #3 for 2020.
Christmas Ornament 2004 from an old Just Cross Stitch magazine, and by Blackbird Designs.
On Colour and Cotton Haunted using some fancy flosses.
It's about 2 inches square, and the tag is just to show the size.  Used dmc for the two colors in the bird.  Below is the photo of where it was when I picked it back up again.

Part of those, start a bunch of magazine things.  But a finish after round two, and just  hours of stitching.  The pattern has the word Noel in the left corner, I just added another star.  It also has little star snowflakes backstitch things - but again, stitching one over one - they would have been just blobs. 

Honestly, I wanted a new start, but could not find the floss I gathered for it.  So grabbed Samplers by The Scarlett House as my next - finish up stuff I already have started.  Decided the gray in the Q R needed to be something darker than the Barn Gray, so went to the darker gray, 3799, used in the bird pattern, and it works better - that will show up in the next time photo.  Decided to make a few adjustments in colors.  It's on the suggested Ale, but lugana 28 count, 1 over 1, so it's the width of a piece of paper , and 2.75 inches tall, about the length of your index finger.

A few days later...

Tombstone Angel - Kathy Barrick.
Enough that you can get a good idea of what the final result will be.  The fabric is more the color of yellow cake mix ready to pour into the baking pan.  The wings and flowers are a deep green, and the side leaves are an olive green, the circles get filled in with a steel gray.  I still like this, but I need to stitch on something else for a few days.  This was round two, and how far it got this time.  Otherwise, I just slow down and stitch less everyday.  And I am to that point on this. 

A second finish...

Erica Michaels - We the People.
Colour & Cotton - Sampler Gold probably.  With words in dmc 3781 and 829, and red and blue fancy floss.  My second 2020 finish.  What I changed:  Dropped the date at the bottom, cause it is stitched one over one - and I already stitch one over one, so that makes the date something I would have to alter and I do not see the point. The dmc colors worked better for the words.  It looks nicer in real life than the photo.  I changed some of the spacing in the words.  Extended the banner lines to match the length of the longer word at the bottom. I made the 'We the People' the dark dmc - it was charted to be white...  which felt a bit too much like -We the WHITE people...  and it tends to disappear into the fabric.
I started a bunch of stuff at the same time - and then got confused about what the fabric was - it's Colour and Cotton - but I used both Sampler Gold and Treasure Map - I think it's Sampler Gold jobelan 28.

Then started the Modern Folk Embroidery 2020 SAL monthly thing, Family Patchwork Sampler.
I used just the basic 28 count jobelan in Antique white jobelan and dmc 814 red. 
Went beyond the pattern, based on the photos - so not sure yet.  I enjoyed doing the 2018 one - so this took about 3 days, and since I just used stuff I already had - if I crash on it - not a big deal.

Tombstone Angel - Kathy Barrick - from an old Just Cross Stitch magazine. 
Picked this back up - had just the bottom circles and a leaf plus a bit more started.
This is Colour & Cotton - Sampler Gold 28 count jobelan - and dmc flosses. When I started a bunch of random smaller things from magazines - this was part of that - things that didn't really get a photo the first time round.  It's part of the - it's started, try to finish it plan.  This actually was fun to pick back up - and the colors are a great combination.  Maybe I was having a good few days of getting floss and fabric to match and started a bunch of things.  

New Starts, A New Finish

A new year, new start, and finish.
The Trilogy - Beatrice.  It's about the size of a playing card.  Used the fancy flosses mostly, and on PTP Sand, one over one.  The kid in me has always liked the tongue twister series that Trilogy did, and so during that closeout sale, I got this one. 
My first 2020 finish. 

Plum Street Samplers - The Beekeeper.  My new year, new start.
A crap picture.  It's maybe the size of a postcard?  Fancy floss on Colour and Cotton - Spellbook.
I started this, stopped and did Beatrice, then went back and added more to this.  Always liked this pattern as a kit, but not my thing to buy kits.  They are almost always on a fabric I would never stitch on, which I understand.  And as just the pattern it was on the fence, to order or not...  On sale, it got ordered with another pattern that was a fence sitter that turned up in the same sale.  

I was able to give blood platelets yesterday.  The first time for 2020.