Friday, January 24, 2025

An extra page done this month...

Modern Folk Embroidery - Winter Kaleidoscope.  Added an extra page this month.  This makes 12 of 20 pages completed.  I tried just starting something else from my stash, but it is silk flosses, and I just kept pulling the needle off the thread.  It did get started, but it was just sad so far.  So I went back to add another page onto this. 
Today I grabbed several things from the piles, and not sure what will be next.  The one I want to grab is 24 pages...  it is one I want to start a mirror image of the original pattern.  I have the original pattern completed.  But starting something else big seems crazy.  But the plan to do two pages a month does seem to be working for me.  And that plan would take a year..... ugh... 

Saturday, January 18, 2025

Stitches and more stitches...

Modern Folk Emboidery - Winter Kaleidoscope, 11 pages completed.  My two pages for January.  Top to bottom, and side to side. 

Working my way to the corner,

Dasher and Dancer - Hobby House Press.  Working on the center christmas tree looking area.  Just stitching areas I like, or want to stitch next.  Not completing pages or being logical. 

Saturday, January 11, 2025

Finish #1 for 2025

 

Finish #1 for 2025.  Ink Circles - Squirrels of Sumatra.  On Fiber on a Whim, 28 count lugana, one over one, and the color is Brown Sugar.  Used almost exactly 4 skeins of dmc 3371.  Start with more than four would be my advice.  It's about the size of a piece of paper when finished.  The photo has a flash on, so it's prettier than this photo. 
Long ago I did the little corner area with the suggested flosses in color.  It has a photo date of April 2019, but I don't know how accurate that is.  It is included with the pattern, and is called Squirrel's Garden to be specific.  

I grabbed back up the red one again to do the two pages for January.  I have almost a half a page done so far.  I thought that I would get this one finished before year end, but it was slow going, so I was 9 days into the new year before it got finished.  But any finish is fine, and it did not get tossed back, it did get completed.