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. 

Added another skein of floss

Pandemic - Long Dog Samplers.  Three skeins of DMC floss used at this point.  About three pages completed.  I am skipping some of the backstitching, some flowers, mostly because I'm not sure how much a hoop would pull at those motifs as I move the hoop to stitch other areas.  It's still just the bottom half of the entire pattern. I am just picking pages that I feel have parts I want to stitch, or more likely would be easy to stitch.

The Linen and Threads 2020 monthly SAL - for August.  I skipped a basket with a huge bird that was from July, I'm gonna replace it with something else.  But I can't really do that until the end, till I see what the other motifs are.   

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.

The April Section is Finished

The April block finished for the free Linen and Threads - 2020 Mystery Sampler.
Also known as Family and Friends by Fox and Rabbit Designs.
Weirdly, the camera is pretty close to correct on this photo.  Gingerbread 28ct lugana, dmc 154.
154 is a wine purple, and this is just a few strands over the first skein of dmc.