Another New Start....

 Rose Quaker - Stickideen von der Wiehenburg.  Another new start from my pattern stash.  Watched a random floss tube - she talked about stitching it, and I pulled mine out to start it.  This is only three days of stitching on it, and I have the side laid in.  Yeah, not complete, but just the one to fill in a bit more on the edge.  Using the suggested dmc flosses on a 28 count antique white lugana, one over one.  I had not started it before because I was not thrilled with the floss colors.  And doing it, it would probably not be my first choice.  But it's not awful, so I am just rolling with it.  I like quaker, so that part of it makes me hang in there with it, and got me to just start it, rather than debating.... should it all be darker?  All just one color?  The pattern is from when my local needlework shop was going out of business.  It is 8 pages, and I have no pages complete yet.  

Ink Circles - Quaker Geometric Puzzle.  This is basically the first skein of dmc completed.  I'm kinda random, but now I'm kinda trying to keep the light areas light, and the darker things dark.  Again, the camera photos are not great.  And I am not gonna fussy cut to get the colors to land.  And if you have wondered, is there any logic to where I start and stop stitching in any of these things?  At the moment, I'm sometimes trying to complete the skein of floss.  Or the page, or the thread.  Sometimes trying to complete the thread leads me slightly over into the next page.  But that is never a big deal, it is whatever happens is fine. 

I placed another order for stitching things.  A couple patterns, and the flosses I would need to do those, and another pattern I have from a magazine, and I know I have it started, but having the pattern might make it easier.  But no pattern could travel alone.... 

Two more pages, and a new start...

 Modern Folk Embroidery - Winter Kaleidoscope.  Completed the two pages for March.  16 of 20 pages completed.  I love it, but I will be glad when it's done.  Each time I get a bit slower at completing the two monthly pages.  

Ink Circles - Quaker Geometric Puzzle.  A new start.  9 pages.  An older stash pattern that I just knew I wanted to change the colors somehow.  This is dmc 111 varigated floss on black 25 count lugana, one over one.  It is nicer than the photo, my camera sucks, and the flash is blowing out the colors.  The pattern says the stitch count is 225 x 225, but as soon as I finally started stitching, the count on the pages is more like 235...Not a big deal, but enough to remind me I should double check numbers against the pattern.  I have had it pop up on other patterns in the past, it happens.  I have done other Ink Circles patterns on black with Weeks floss in Whiskey.  But then Whiskey became more like Tiger's eye....which... dyelots change.  I think I have some of this dmc in my stash, but it was easier to just order more from 123Stitch.  I was ordering the fabric and a couple market patterns, and the cookbook anyway.  The hoop is sbout 7 inches.  The finished design is 9.4 inches.  I always start bottom right corner, unless it's something really weird.

5 of 24 pages

 

Courtney Collection - Mermaid's Folly (Mirrored).  This is 5 of 24 pages completed.  That bottom row is a third of a whole page.  I have done a few jigsaw puzzles lately.  As of now I am back stitching my two pages for March on the red Winter Kalidoscope design.  Got a couple patterns from market, and the cookbook.  A few flosses, and some cuts of black fabric - so I could do a pattern from market, and one from my stash.  Got all the stitching copies made, they are kitted up.  But I am enjoying the red one, once I finally pick up the needle.