It was time to give it a try, and start it....

A Peacock, A Unicorn and a Badger - Scarlet Letter.  A new start, one over one, on 25 count white lugana, dmc flosses. I have a bit more done, trying to fill in where I have started.  This is the bottom row to the center flower, the center badger at the bottom of the tree.  I am enjoying stitching it.  So far everything has matched up, which makes it fun to stitch.   This was actually one of the last patterns that I have purchased, and it's been maybe a year since then.  I ordered the fabric, kitted it up, and it has been waiting for me.  It was time to give it a try. 

Autumn on Lazy Bear Mountain - Kathy Barrick.  Picked this back up thinking it feels like fall, but all I got done was to work on that upper right corner, and I did finish that part, those pages.  Below is the photo where it was when I picked it back up again.  I just burned out quick on it, and decided to start the new project.  But I was pleased to get an area done that I know is completed on this. 

And I do still have to fill in some orange on that border bottom to complete it.  But I completed the moon and I'm not wild about the owl in the moon center, I'm thinking I'd rather go more plain.  Once you start changing the pattern, you need to either do it and commit to it, or change projects.  I started the new, but a classic pattern, instead. 
 

Pick it up, Put it back...

A Bird's Eye View - Kathy Barrick.
Finish #14 for 2020.  
On an MCG 28 count evenweave - dmc flosses. 
Below is what it looked like when I picked it back up again.  It's not very big.  It will never be my favorite, but I did finish it.  And I do like it more now that it's done.  

It got quite a ways before it was tossing into the started stuff pile.  It only took two days to finish it.

 I knew what I wanted to stitch from the pile, but I couldn't find it.  Eventually Olga from Plum Street got started last night - fancy flosses, on Colour and Cotton Spellbook 28 count.  But I was still wanting to stitch on that other design I couldn't find...

 First I had pulled Christmas is Coming back out from the started pile before starting Olga...
I finished the border, thought I can power my way down from the top filling in the missing parts...
Did the holly, added the missing words - Christmas - the - and flowers - and started the fence and house area  - and felt like, nope.  Still wanted that missing already started thing...

So I went on at fourth look to finally find what I wanted to try to finish next... 
Long Dog Samplers - The Token.  And I found it - and here is where it is when I am picking it back up.

Tombstone Angel - Finished.

Kathy Barrick - Tombstone Angel
From the Just Cross Stitch magazine - October 2008
On Colour and Cotton Sampler Gold 28 count jobelan? - dmc flosses.
And finish #9 for 2020
Omitted the large block date numbers.  Otherwise, mostly as charted.

Finished the March section of the Linen and Threads 2020 Mystery Sampler.
This is top to bottom on the left side completed. Minus the initials.
PTP Gingerbread and dmc 154.

This was a good mail day.  The patterns were for flosses I got cheap at the LNS closing.  Flosses for 2 of the market charts I wanted.  And then flosses to fill in things that were nearly kitted.  .

I had a stitcher make me feel like crap.  She is a flosstube person, she had a pattern that was incomplete, and she was asking for help.   It's an OOP, kinda rare pattern.  I said I could probably help.  She emailed me, I emailed her the part she needed - and she could not be bothered to say - anything.   It was a person that I just randomly watched once, I don't value any interaction with helping or not helping her.  If I hold a door open - I expect to be acknowledged as another person in the world unless you are severly impaired.
I am just kinda sick of hearing about how wonderful this community is - it's really not for some of us.

A few days later...

Tombstone Angel - Kathy Barrick.
Enough that you can get a good idea of what the final result will be.  The fabric is more the color of yellow cake mix ready to pour into the baking pan.  The wings and flowers are a deep green, and the side leaves are an olive green, the circles get filled in with a steel gray.  I still like this, but I need to stitch on something else for a few days.  This was round two, and how far it got this time.  Otherwise, I just slow down and stitch less everyday.  And I am to that point on this. 

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.  

Let's Try a Bird...

Okay, a new start on something else. 
A Bird's Eye View - Kathy Barrick.
On 28 count white evenweave - using called for dmc floss.  One over one.
From my stash.  I got it when it first came out, then I somehow decided I didn't really care for it all that much.  But at some point, you either decide you bought the stuff, and you should just stitch it, or you decide - crap, a waste of money.  I decided to see if I would just enjoy stitching it.  It is different from the other things I have been stitching lately.  The bird just needs that yellow section filled in.  There are three buildings around the bird - one of which is started in this photo.  It's has been okay to stitch.  I do not hate stitching it.  It will never be my favorite.  I added the photo below with the skein of floss on it - just to show the scale of what I have completed so far against something that we all know the size of.  Just so we all get to say - oh, that's tiny.  Much smaller than it looks like in the top photo.