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. 

Songs About Glue...

This is the Linen and Threads 2020 Mystery Sampler.  This is as far as it get for now.  I need to find a replacement for two motifs.  One was the vase with a HUGE bird, and the other was the HUGE fly.  I heard someone say something about the Bee on it, I'm still going with it's a fly.  And weirdly enough, 2020 and a huge fly on it - TOTALLY FITS.  I looked a little for replacement motifs, but nothing jumped out as perfect to fill in.  So it's done, but not done.  And the skeins of dmc off to the side show scale.  Done with PTP Gingerbread 28ct Lugana, one over one, dmc 154, kind of a wine purple. 

This is Little House Needleworks - Battle Hymn of the Republic.  This was a new start, and a finish. Finish 23 for the year 2020.  Done on 32ct jobelan Colour & Cotton Treasure Map, one over one.  Treasure Map was an early Fabric of the Month, and the scrap I had left was perfect to use it all up.  The suggested dmc threads were fine.  When I was a small kid, still fit into the grocery cart seat size...  I used to sing this.  But being a kid, the chorus for me was....  Lori, Lori, Can I glue ya...  My mom told me years later that people looked, but she decided she would rather have a singing kid, than a crying kid.  So she let me sing.  I have no clue why this song, or where I would have heard it.  I can not carry a tune in a bucket, although it took a long time before somebody finally told me that, so I was probably not much better as a kid singing this in that shopping cart.  But I was happy, not screaming.  It was just a silly thing to stitch for me, but only because I have a slightly different version in MY head.  I do remember getting most of the other words of this correct.... I think he was 'trampling on the village'...,  but that chorus...  not so much.  Maybe I should add, we were not religious, so that H word was not part of my world, but my family did use glue. 

One Skein At A Time

Long Dog - Pandemic.  This is 6 skeins of dmc used.  Seven random pages completed except for some backstitching tiny things.  The pattern is 20 pages, 4 rows across, 5 pages per row.  I worked on bottom row middle page, and am gonna add a few more stitches to that yet so I can finish the page since it is silly close to completed.  Also the second row first page is now complete.  Rather than just get completely sick of the area, I skip around, work in a different area, anything so I can get to the end of the skein of floss.   

Linen and Threads 2020 SAL - finished October.  Actually I think this also flipped to another skein during this month.  I think I have started the third skein of dmc.

Stitch and Re-Stitch...

 

Courtney Collection - Mermaid's Folly.  Six skeins used at this point maybe.  Six pages left of 24 total.

I tried to make the borders meet, and I actually thought they did, till I realized I was one thread too low.  So put a pin in to show where I skipped a row, and then I removed back to that pin.

This would be the before photo.  Finished the page around her head, and filled in the border so it joined.

I finished the August and September monthly sections on the above pattern.

 

And finished the September monthly section for this one.  That silly tiny treee had to be removed and restitched, I stuck it in the wrong place.

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. 

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.

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.