Five Days of Stitching

 Ink Circles - Modestly-Sized Red Ship of Life.  New Start for the swearing in of a new president.  Using the same stuff as the Big Red Ship of Life, which is never ending.  This is 5 days of stitching. 

This was the point of the first skein of dmc completed. 

 I was curious about the size comparison.  This is the patterns together, on top of each other.  It's not all that much smaller.  I guess the boat is smaller.  And it's not nearly at tall.  The stitch counts are 299 wide by 269 tall on the Modestly-Sized version, and 345 wide by 422 tall on the Big ship version.  A wonky photo, but you get the idea.  The Modestly-Sized version 12 pages, I do have that bottom corner page completed.  Big ship is 16 pages.  Kinda fun, if you get bored, you just switch to a different border or area.  It's on 28 count China Pearl jobelan, one over one, dmc 938.

Stitching Away...

 Marie Lucie - Muriel Brunet.  From the book.  Random pull from the started pile. Below is what it looked like when I picked it back up.

Back it goes into the pile.  But I was pretty happy to get that much more added.  I just want something different for the political day.  With so many things started, I'm happy to just make progress.  Everything needs progress.  Basically trying for a few days on anything, doesn't really matter. Then toss it back, pull another.  So the projects showing up here, are gonna seem really random. 

Started Seeking Refuge from Scarlett House.  On PTP Legacy 28 count lugana, one over one.  Fancy flosses and dmc black.  I wanna say - Legacy is PERFECT for this.  What I loved is the verse, and it certainly fits a pandemic.  But I want to modify the design to just the verse, and the bottom border, then flip the bottom border upside down for the area above the words.  It would be lovely as a drum...  mine will never get that far, but I wanted to see the start of the plan, so it became a new start.  Omitting all the top parts of the pattern.  The fabric has a perfect hint of the same tones of green.  This is the first page, and a fair start.  

Can't Seem To Just Settle In...

 

Courtney Collection - Beasties (mirrored).  This is one skein of dmc completed.  What a mess.  I sure can not seem to complete even an area or an outline.  

Ink Circles - Big Red Ship of Life.  Made some progress on this.  Trying to complete a section when it gets picked up.  Below is what it was when I picked it back up.

But this was actually the end of 2020 stitching.  And I was still altering things, which if you drag that out over years, it takes a bit more time to think - 'what was I doing?'.  And yes, I did buy the two other ship patterns.  I even have enough material to stitch them as a matching series.  But I'd like to finish this one first.  It's dated already, 2014...  clearly that didn't happen.  At this point, I think the lower half is completed, or a couple motifs short on that right side of having half done.  

This was the new start I wanted last time.  Nantucket Girl Sampler.  I found fabric that worked. Didn't get very far.  So it got started and tossed into the pile.

I tried picking this back up - I am not sure about the fabric... I like the idea, just not the results.

This is a Midsummer Night pattern called Prim and Proper Sampler?  It got started.  It was just too fussy to hold my attention.  

I am stitching, I just can't settle.  So a little gets stitched, and then it gets tossed back and I try something else.  The only thing I have come close to staying with has been Beasties. 

Couple of New Starts...

Modern Folk Embroidery - The Fruits of Plenty.  MFESAL2021.  The first month is complete.  I took the suggested colors of blue, then figured out the approximate version in red, then went to the store to get floss hoping they would have enough of the same dyelot for something.  What I ended up with is the suggested light blue and my alternate dark red.  Decided that might be lovely, or at least different, I was hoping for something kinda Oval office, patriotic, red-white-blue. 

Courtney Collection - Beasties (mirrored).  I am still on the first skein of dmc.  They are separate, but using the same floss and fabric.  Nine pages total, two pages almost completed.  I try to outline and fill in back to solid anchor points to make sure I have not goofed.  Makes me end up with boxes to fill in.  I tried to just work on things I had already started.  I grabbed at least 5 things, and I just could not settle into any of them.  I finally decided to just try this new start, and finally I settled, able to work on it for several days. Today I woke up and just need to start something new.  I thought I had something kitted, but no material.  So I am grabbing something else from my stash.