Areas Actually Completed....

Ink Circles - Modestly Sized Red Ship of Life.  This is 6 of 12 pages completed and 3 skeins of dmc used to this point.  I would say half done, but the bottom row are slightly smaller pages, so not exactly.  But at this point, I'm burned out on this one.  Photo below is where it was when I picked it back up.

This was only one page completed, that bottom right corner. 

Disorganized...

Birds of a Feather - Counting Magpies.  Sometime I will say, I started something but it was not worth bothering with a photo...  this is one of those.  But this is round two, and now it has enough to show.  It's about the size of a slice of Texas Toast.  My feeling when I started this was - I might have stitched this before, long ago.  But I am using called for fancy floss, and PTP Legacy 28 count lugana, one over one, this time.  This was a started maybe this year, or late last year.  I didn't want to find the original one if I have done it before.  I wanna finish this one, and compare them if I have.

Modern Folk Embroidery - MFE2020 SAL - Family Patchwork Sampler.  This one came back out since I still needed to add October, November, and December yet.  At the time, I was trying to save on postage and ordering two months at a time.  Then the end of the year mail was crazy slow, not the Etsy seller.  So I completed each month a little bit, and none of them completely.  But I had this out, and that letter thing out, and one is dmc 814 and the letter thing is dmc 815, and that just seemed like an awful idea and a mix up waiting to happen. So the "C" letter thing got tossed back, and this filled in a bit more.

Growing Stitches

Harriet Salt - Hands Across The Sea Samplers.  Got this far before needing a break. 

Modern Folk Embroidery - The Fruits of Plenty.  Finished month 2.  This is still just an experiment with the colors to see an end result. 

Courtney Collection - Beasties (mirrored).  I filled in some of those empty area boxes, although the kangaroo still has a box to fill in.  I am having trouble seeing those final stitches as I fill in.  Not sure if my lighting needs to be better, or maybe I just need stronger cheater glasses? 

Gigi R - The Letter C.  So this is where I am as I pick this back up again.  I have a couple of these letter charts.  Honestly I'm not even sure which letters I have.  There was never a plan to do them all.  Silly enough, I once liked a boy named Charlie. 

I started the Blackbird Designs - First Winds of Autumn pattern.  I got the floss list off of the photos when it was a limited thing, then had to wait for the pattern to release, which ended up being in the $30 book.  But I had the floss, so I got the book.  I ordered some of Pat's Needles to try.  But needles can not travel alone.   So I got some just white and antique white jobelan.  Then I needed needle holders, so I ordered those and some floss.  I already had most of the colors for two more of the book patterns in my stash.  Then Colour and Cotton had some 'ready to ship' fabric, so I order some fabric.  Cause I can't get her fabric anymore.  I picked up some other already started thing, but I only put a couple threads in it before I tossed it back.  I don't really care which thing I work on, and I am not close to a finish on anything.  I am very lucky in that I have lots of choices.  The trick is to find which one you can grab and make grow.

Stitch or Shovel Snow...

Ink Circles - Modestly Sized Ship.  Filling in.  It has another row of pages going up yet, but it also has a matching border like that bottom section as part of the top row.  The plan is, I have these four things going, and I can just grab and swap as I get tired of looking at any of them.  There are only three photos here, the fourth project is the MFE2021 SAL - and I have January done, and have February yet to start.

Courtney Collection - Beasties (Mirrored).  The kangaroo got outlined and is filling in - except his head.  He has ears and a chin.  The boxes are just solid fill in yet to do. 

This was a new start - Harriett Salt 1866 from Hands Across The Sea Samplers.  It's DMC 550 on Ivory Jobelan 28 count, 1 over 1.  If you boxed this area up - this is two pages, about the size of a postcard.  Finished sized area should be 14.78 inches squared.  This is a use my stash project.  I'm not wild about the Ivory fabric.  But I needed something that was 20 3/4 inches squared.  And I had reds in dmc flosses, but I wanted something different than another red.  It's a wine purple, as are the wine reds I tend to use.  It works, but day 2, I sure debated about just ordering fabric or starting over.  Harriet is a bit tricky, she added a stitch here or there so you have to look at each motif and border sample to see.  And it's fine, she just was not symmetrical.  But on the upside - the little border things are pretty short.  This is two days of stitching on it.  I am trying to do it from the book, no working copy.  I think that forces me to complete two pages at a time and not wander randomly.   Started from the bottom right corner, as I do most things and then working up.