Monday, May 20, 2024

8 pages of 20 completed...

Long Dog Samplers - Act of God.  Finished 8 of 20 pages at this point.  Finished the 5th skein of dmc.  The rows are five pages across, so I'm in the middle.  The top row shows the width of the middle page, so I have some done on several of the middle pages, where the last couple pages on each row have nothing done, except the bottom where I started at.  It certainly is a lovely design, and I am enjoying it.  I started with 12 skeins of dmc, same dyelot.  I wanna take a break from it, I never stitch something this large from start to finish.  But nothing has been calling my name. 

Monday, May 13, 2024

Six Pages of Twenty Completed.

Long Dog Samplers - Act of God.  This is 6 of 20 pages completed, and 4 skeins of dmc used.  Three corners completed.  I do like stitching on this.  It's not symmetrical, so it is something you have to watch carefully.  I had the corner of a motif that I was suddenly wrong on, so I took it out, and then restitched it exactly the same wrong way again... so it was 3 tries to get it correct.  I don't get very far before I realize I am off, but I would not want this to be the first pattern from this designer that I tried.  It is 12 inches square, stitched 1 over 1, on PTP 28 count lugana.  Actual measurements. So framing it might be easy, but I am a long way from completing it.  But I have not had the feeling that I want to stitch on something else.  But now that I have said that... all bets are off.