Page 12 of 12 - Finished !!!

Courtney Collection - Knightmare.
It's done !  Hooray !  12 pages completed.   Stitched on Dove Gray Jobelan 28 count, one over one, using dmc 3799.  It took less than three full skeins.  Finished size is 8.5 inches high x 9 inches wide.

This is what the next version of this will look like, but I'm sick of it at the moment.  So it won't get started next, or even soon.  But I have the pattern ready, the fabric and floss will all match. 
My goal is still to finish things I have started.  I will toss the new thing into the mix just to save my sanity.  But I rarely stitch something from start to finish.  This took me 24 calendar days, and I did not stitch every day.  There is one extra stitch - but everything else matches the pattern exactly.  I will consider it my 'fear of God' stitch.  

Eleven Pages Done

Courtney Collection - Knightmare.  Eleven pages done.
One more page, and so many stitches yet to do.

Ten Pages Done

Courtney Collection - Knightmare.  This is 10 pages done. 
The second skein of floss was finished - and what is in the center is the third skein started.
I finished a page on Saturday, and finished a page on Sunday.  I went right up the middle to make sure that things lined up, and it does.  It is starting to get hard to stay with this, but I am so close. 

Nine Pages Done

Courtney Collection - Knightmare.  Nine pages completed. 
Page nine took just a single day.  Three pages to go. 

Eight Pages Done

Courtney Collection - Knightmare.  Eight pages completed. 
Starting up from the bottom again.  Mostly because that page feels very anchored.

Seven Pages Done

Courtney Collection - Knightmare.
Seven of the twelve pages completed.  Five more pages to go, and you can see where they fit now.
I have really slowed down on stitching it.  When you stitch a house, or a border, or a motif, it has outlines that make sense.  This is more like water stains on the paper, random flows of stitches.  Lots of well respected stitchers have talked about that at some point they just get off somewhere, and have to just fudge it till it works...  So far, I am still good, but I can see how that could happen.  My goal right now is to finish page one.

Today is blood platelet donor day...  let's all laugh knowing this has a hundred different ways of going wrong. **update - I went, passed everything except my temperature was too high, so I got deferred.  But I am fine with that, maybe I am sick and just don't know it yet.  I had errands to do - so not having to sit in a chair for two hours...  kinda okay by me.   

Fill It In...

Courtney Collection - Knightmare.
This is actually 6 of the 12 pages completed.  It's also just the first dmc floss completed. 
Some of the completed pages had very few stitches, but the pages left to do are much more solid. 

Something New Again...

Well, I slowed down on this...  started working my way up on multiple pages.  Just all signs I was burning out on this.

So decided to start Courtney Collection - Knightmare.  The knight's helmet.  It is smaller than the Pelican, it's only 12 pages total.  It is three rows, four columns.  This is the fourth column done - three pages completed, and the width of a top page is completed in the third column.
It's on a 28 count Dove Gray jobelan, with dmc 3799 floss.
Like the Pelican, I still plan to mirror image this one too.  I went yesterday to a copy shop, and for $4, now have the pattern pages mirrored for both these patterns.  This one is the smaller, it should finish at about 8.5 x 9 inches.  I can't say it's my favorite color combination, but it's using my stash.