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.

This, That, Those Other Monthly Things....

Blackbird Designs - Small Token
A new start and a finish - #20 for 2020
Stitched on Doubloon 28 ct lugana, one over one, using suggested fancy flosses.

This photo is just to show the finished size. 

Jeannette Douglas - Alphabet Annie
On that same PTP Doubloon 28 count lugana using the suggested fancy flosses.
Again, a new start and finished in two days.  It's 4.25 by 2.5 inches. 
Finish #19 for 2020.  I caught the pattern on sale when I ordered something else...  There are lots of designers that might not be my overall style, but I like to try at least one of their patterns.

Started the Blackbird Designs - Summer, Autumn, Winter set.
On Doubloon 28 count using suggested fancy flosses.  I had one and three, and started to redraw it with just two birds, I was not all that fond of the middle.  I got as far as re-drawing out the alphabet to fit over two birds, not three birds, and just had not started it.  Then the design was re-released, and it was just easier to order the middle missing pattern.  But I had the flosses for it, and decided to start it, in the three birds, three pattern version.   But I'm still tossing around that I'd still like to maybe try my two bird version.  Mostly it just shifts things, leaves off the date and initials so the alphabet spacing works. 

And again, till you see something you already know, it's hard to tell the size from a photo. 
But it's tiny.  The middle pattern on the way, along with the couple of extra colors of floss it uses.
Once I saw it's not very big - then stitching a couple extra birds to try the two bird version seemed more reasonable.  Doing the alphabet twice seems like the more painful chore. 

Added the May section on the Linens and Threads monthly SAL.
Called - Friends and Family -, and designed by Fox and Rabbit Designs.

Finished the May section of the Modern Folk monthly SAL, and added more than the patterns have shown so far.  Called - Family Patchwork Sampler.

April Block Finished

Modern Folk Embroidery - Family Patchwork Sampler.
Finished the April block.  Dmc 814 on antique white jobelan 28 count, one over one.

One Designer - Two Designs...

Modern Folk Embroidery - Family Patchwork Sampler
March plus a little more finished.

Modern Folk Embroidery - Forget Me Not.
10 of the 20 pages are completed - except the alphabet letters. 

Stitches and more Stitches

Finished the second month of Family Patchwork Sampler SAL - Modern Folk Embroidery.
Yeah, I added the rest of the diamond area stitches.  It's used up one skein of dmc at this point.

 Put in more stitches on this - and I am almost done with the top part.

This was my new purchase - and I started it.  It's dmc 938 on a Colour and Cotton fabric of the month called Camelot, in lugana 28 count, one over one.  The fabric is one that seems to look very different in different lighting.  I was looking for a more masculine feeling for the finished product. 
Most places this was a download - but Homespun Samplar on Etsy was selling printed versions of several patterns by this designer.  I expected just single printed sheets of paper - but this is a booklet, with center staples and it was REALLY worth the maybe $2 more for the printed version. 
The alphabet in this is one over one - but that means I will have to replace it since I stitch the pattern one over one.  I have lots of alphabets - it's fine, and won't get done till the end. 

A second finish...

Erica Michaels - We the People.
Colour & Cotton - Sampler Gold probably.  With words in dmc 3781 and 829, and red and blue fancy floss.  My second 2020 finish.  What I changed:  Dropped the date at the bottom, cause it is stitched one over one - and I already stitch one over one, so that makes the date something I would have to alter and I do not see the point. The dmc colors worked better for the words.  It looks nicer in real life than the photo.  I changed some of the spacing in the words.  Extended the banner lines to match the length of the longer word at the bottom. I made the 'We the People' the dark dmc - it was charted to be white...  which felt a bit too much like -We the WHITE people...  and it tends to disappear into the fabric.
I started a bunch of stuff at the same time - and then got confused about what the fabric was - it's Colour and Cotton - but I used both Sampler Gold and Treasure Map - I think it's Sampler Gold jobelan 28.

Then started the Modern Folk Embroidery 2020 SAL monthly thing, Family Patchwork Sampler.
I used just the basic 28 count jobelan in Antique white jobelan and dmc 814 red. 
Went beyond the pattern, based on the photos - so not sure yet.  I enjoyed doing the 2018 one - so this took about 3 days, and since I just used stuff I already had - if I crash on it - not a big deal.

Tombstone Angel - Kathy Barrick - from an old Just Cross Stitch magazine. 
Picked this back up - had just the bottom circles and a leaf plus a bit more started.
This is Colour & Cotton - Sampler Gold 28 count jobelan - and dmc flosses. When I started a bunch of random smaller things from magazines - this was part of that - things that didn't really get a photo the first time round.  It's part of the - it's started, try to finish it plan.  This actually was fun to pick back up - and the colors are a great combination.  Maybe I was having a good few days of getting floss and fabric to match and started a bunch of things.