Finish # 8 for 2021

Courtney Collection - Beasties (mirrored).  My 8th finish for 2021.  Stitched on PTP Gingerbread 28 count lugana, one over one. Used 4 skeins of dmc 310.  Finished size is 6.5 x 8 inches.  Fabric colors never show correctly with my camera. 

And just for fun - Showing the original version, and the mirrored version - yep, stitched them both.  Most copy shops will copy a pattern as a mirror image and not charge more.  I know I can do it with a computer and my printer, but it's so much less stressful and quicker to pay the copy shop a few dollars.  It takes a minute cause they are usually a bit confused about which button is mirror image... But it's still way faster than me doing it at home. 

Finish #7 for 2021

Finish #7 for 2021.  The Linen and Threads 2020 SAL - Friends and Family.  PTP Gingerbread lugana 28 count, one over one, dmc 154.  Used 3 skeins of dmc with a bit leftover.  I changed one motif, added a random alphabet to fill in.

This was what it was when I picked it back up.  Mostly I just didn't like a motif, and it took me a while to find something, then kinda just made one instead. 

Courtney Collection - Beasties (mirrored) - finished two more pages.  Again, PTP Gingerbread and dmc black.  Two pages left and the frog hanging from the birds mouth. 

This is where it was when I picked it back up again. 

More Completed Pages...

Modern Folk Embroidery - Fruits of Plenty.  MFESAL 2021.   The 3rd block completed, and I have used one skein of each of the two colors at this point. 

Courtney Collection, Beasties (Mirrored).  Filled in, and actually completed areas.  Four of the nine pages completed.  I still have the frog hanging from the bird's beak or it would have been another page done.  There is a bird with a snake on the right side yet, plus then the top row three pages. There still is a whole camel to stitch yet. 

This was where is what when I picked it back up.  It only got two days of stitching this time.  I have some other things I need to do.

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. 

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.