Is It Done or Not

Modern Folk Embroidery - Forget Me Not.
On Colour and Cotton - Camelot 28 count lugana - which was the January 2020 fabric of the month.
Dmc 938  - used 5 skeins to do the main motifs, one over one. 
There is also an alphabet and numbers, but they are on the pattern as one over one. 
That means I have to find a substitution or alternative.  I have alphabets, but none have felt like they should be on this.  I did get a substitute for the heart I didn't like - found it in minutes, stitched it in. 
And I can't decide the color for that alphabet - so at this point - this is as far as this one goes. 
Done?  For now.  Started it February 6, 2020 at this point on April 28, 2020.

I almost stopped with just a half of a motif left - literally four strands of floss and I finished it.  But I had out another new start, and I had the first thread going... and decided to not finish this was insanity.  So I put four strands in and was done.
My goal this month was to buy very little.  Then at some point - lots of things made me stress out.  And I knew flosses were getting harder to get, and it was gonna get worse.  I had some mask material I wanted to order on sale - so I got stuff I wanted.  But they were running out of stuff even as I was still putting things in my cart.  So I was stuck with still needed a few flosses - so hello order number two...

She was adding this pattern to her site as I was on it.  So I ordered it, and the two main flosses I was gonna need, and a few other colors the first place was already out of.  And because this seller lives in my same postal substation area - it was crazy fast delivery. 
Then I knew there was other just harder to get flosses - but they had dmc suggested version I could maybe get - and there was a sale...

So I got 107 more dmc floss that I thought would be the correct substitutions.
But today I was looking at a chart that uses one of those impossible to get greens - and the designer suggested some other dmc number - and I look at a different color - same thing not the same suggested numbers I bought.  So maybe half of these are just wrong.  I have some of the original versions that I can compare dmc to and decide.  It's fine - it was all 40% off.  A bunch of it is for specific things and is the correct numbers. 
But I was still short a couple charts and one floss - so I ordered that.  The one floss was the last one I needed of a list of discontinued Weeks suggested flosses.  I had got the dmc to do the chart - but it would look very different with the called for - the Weeks called for were very multicolored.  So much that it might be fun to stitch it both ways.  But you can only do that if you buy that final hard to get floss.  So I did.   But mostly this shopping shows I hit my stressed out level.  And I know some things are gonna be harder to get for a while.  I have stuff to stitch - I have already started stuff.  And compared to most people - I should not be stressed.  This is kinda my normal life - home, not going out - buying just stuff I need - never in a restaurant - never out with other people.  The mask is new - welcome to my world. 

Closer and Closer

Modern Folk Embroidery - Forget Me Not.
Measures 10 inches wide by 12.75 high.
15 of 20 pages completed.  Although there is a heart motif that falls across two pages that isn't stitched.  But I am not a fan of hearts, and that heart has to be replaced with something else.  And of course, the letters and numbers are not on here yet. 
I am wondering if because I went to the side edge in the middle, if that was a stupid thing to do.  So I just checked, the edge thread does line up with what is the completed edge at the top.  I have not had any problems with anything not lining up, like when you check alignment of something already stitched.  But there have been a couple of those motifs that sure felt never ending.  Once you get through them, you kinda forget that part.  Below is the photo of where it was when I picked it back up again.

This before photo is pretty accurate as to the colors.  You can tell I was trying to fill in and complete motifs.  

Pages and Pages...

Forget Me Not - Modern Folk Embroidery
Finished 3 more pages, so 13 of 20 are completed, except initials.
It is approximately 10 x 12.75 inches.
Into skein four of 938 dmc.
After seeing the two color version that Stone Street Stitchworks was playing with -
using dmc 3021 and 300, I bought skeins of that to maybe stitch this again.  When I saw the floss I thought - really? - and considered that maybe I would like it if it was one shade more or less than those numbers.  But I liked the photo example, so I bought those colors.
Trying to consider what to make the letters and numbers, something lighter seemed like a maybe, but I don't think it would show.  Considered 3371, which would be the one darker than 938 but it looks basically too much like the 938 that I don't think it would show.  A deep brownish ruddy red might be nice, no clue what that number might be, but I have a color card.  Actually, that would be that 300 number again probably.  Which, see ---  that is a loop back to that other color way that makes me think - sure, let's stitch it twice.

Jenny Bean's Halloween Sampler - Shakespeare's Peddler.
This was an impulse to start, on the suggested fabric, with the suggested alternative fancy floss. 
Okay, long ago, a stitcher named Susan talked to me through this blog.  And she sent me the specialty thread pack for this.  Now I have also gotten the dmc suggested, and the alternative fancy flosses.  And heard Pam say, not enough black in two skeins...  she's right... which is why I will finish the border with the two Black Crow first. 
This is another one that is not my normal stitch.  It's 36 count linen, tried one thread, nope...
so it is two over two, and this is most of the first skein of Black Crow.  I have one 6 strand length yet, but I am corner to corner.  But it does mean I will need another or run short doing the center area.  Which is why I was not wanting to use the hard to find original suggested thread pack to do this one on a first try.  And I have enough fabric to do it twice if I am careful, and I was.  The challenge of course is - will the borders meet. 
It's started, but went back into the pile of now started things.   

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. 

Quakers and more Quakers

 Modern Folk Embroidery - Forget Me Not
5 of 20 pages completed.
2 of the 4 corners completed.
2 skeins of dmc floss completed.
At this point, I need a break from it. 

Oh, the color is way off on this photo. 
Linen and Threads - 2020 monthly Mystery Sampler. 
It's PTP Gingerbread 28 jobelan or lugana with dmc 154.  One over one
This was a new start - and it was the break from the other quaker.  It took two days total to complete January and February.  It is another piece that looks very different in different lighting.  That dmc 154 is a dark purple wine color.  This will finish at under 9 inches square when done after 12 parts.  

A Bite At A Time

Modern Folk Embroidery - Forget Me Not.
First skein of dmc used at this point. 
2 pages of 20 completed. 

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.