Finish #3 for 2021

Ink Circles - Modestly-Sized Red Ship of Life.  Finish #3 for 2021.  It's on 28 count China Pearl jobelan, one over one, dmc 938.  It used 6 skeins of dmc.  Finished size is 10.25 wide by 9.25 high in inches.  It matches the larger one in both dmc floss and fabric.  I also have the smaller third pattern and this cut of fabric is folded under, so the plan is to put the third one on what is left.  I don't plan to start that one yet.  Trying to do things I already have started.  *This was my 'New President, New Start'.  Which means I started and finished something not even from the already started pile.

Stitching Away...

Modern Folk Embroidery - Fruits of Plenty - April - MFESAL 2021.  Finished the latest month. 

Ink Circles - Modestly Size Ship.  Worked on it the final days of March.  Closer and closer. 

Two More Pages Completed

 Ink Circles - Modestly Sized Red Ship of Life.  10 of 12 pages completed.  I would really like to power through this, but there are other things I should be doing.  But I'm pleased to have finished two more pages this time.

Finally a finish for 2021...

A Finish!  Ink Circles - Big Red Ship of Life.  Used 9 skeins of dmc 938 on 28 count China Pearl jobelan, one over one.  It finished at 12 x 14 inches.  A bit confusing as this was the first one, the biggest of the three patterns.  It's 16 pages, I had 8 done, and parts of the other 8 done.  So I filled in and finished.  It got dated 2014, I had high hopes at that time.  There are a few changes randomly.  I looked for a random place to add the year 2021, but nothing that was quick and easy, and still hidden. Below is where it was when I picked it back up.  It is the first finish for 2021.  Which is sad...
 

Below is the Modestly Size Ship.  12 pages on that one, 8 completed.  Since I have been stitching this one, it's a bit weird to suddenly pop up with the other pattern as a finish, so I am adding this photo.

Here. There. And everywhere...

Ink Circles = Modestly Sized Red Ship.  Two more pages completed.  Used almost 4 skeins of dmc at this point.  Below is what it looked like when I picked it back up.  8 of 12 pages completed.  And the border lines up on that left side,- I checked. 

I wanted to break up doing that top border all at once. 

Blackbird Designs - Our Lasting Friendship.  My new start.  I got the border and the box done.  Called for fancy flosses on 28 count PTP Legacy, one over one.  When the flosses arrived - Caramel and Straw Hat look exactly alike.  I don't mean they are close, I mean - exactly.  So I reordered those two again from a different vendor. 
 

Band Sampler - Historical Sampler Company (I think).  This is just an odd one for me, but it's is different from the other things I stitch.  Below is what it looked like when I picked it back up again. I was just trying to get rows from side to side.  But I also only got a couple of days before I'm wanting to move on.  And oh, that outside border is gonna be miserable to do.

Areas Actually Completed....

Ink Circles - Modestly Sized Red Ship of Life.  This is 6 of 12 pages completed and 3 skeins of dmc used to this point.  I would say half done, but the bottom row are slightly smaller pages, so not exactly.  But at this point, I'm burned out on this one.  Photo below is where it was when I picked it back up.

This was only one page completed, that bottom right corner. 

Stitch or Shovel Snow...

Ink Circles - Modestly Sized Ship.  Filling in.  It has another row of pages going up yet, but it also has a matching border like that bottom section as part of the top row.  The plan is, I have these four things going, and I can just grab and swap as I get tired of looking at any of them.  There are only three photos here, the fourth project is the MFE2021 SAL - and I have January done, and have February yet to start.

Courtney Collection - Beasties (Mirrored).  The kangaroo got outlined and is filling in - except his head.  He has ears and a chin.  The boxes are just solid fill in yet to do. 

This was a new start - Harriett Salt 1866 from Hands Across The Sea Samplers.  It's DMC 550 on Ivory Jobelan 28 count, 1 over 1.  If you boxed this area up - this is two pages, about the size of a postcard.  Finished sized area should be 14.78 inches squared.  This is a use my stash project.  I'm not wild about the Ivory fabric.  But I needed something that was 20 3/4 inches squared.  And I had reds in dmc flosses, but I wanted something different than another red.  It's a wine purple, as are the wine reds I tend to use.  It works, but day 2, I sure debated about just ordering fabric or starting over.  Harriet is a bit tricky, she added a stitch here or there so you have to look at each motif and border sample to see.  And it's fine, she just was not symmetrical.  But on the upside - the little border things are pretty short.  This is two days of stitching on it.  I am trying to do it from the book, no working copy.  I think that forces me to complete two pages at a time and not wander randomly.   Started from the bottom right corner, as I do most things and then working up. 

Five Days of Stitching

 Ink Circles - Modestly-Sized Red Ship of Life.  New Start for the swearing in of a new president.  Using the same stuff as the Big Red Ship of Life, which is never ending.  This is 5 days of stitching. 

This was the point of the first skein of dmc completed. 

 I was curious about the size comparison.  This is the patterns together, on top of each other.  It's not all that much smaller.  I guess the boat is smaller.  And it's not nearly at tall.  The stitch counts are 299 wide by 269 tall on the Modestly-Sized version, and 345 wide by 422 tall on the Big ship version.  A wonky photo, but you get the idea.  The Modestly-Sized version 12 pages, I do have that bottom corner page completed.  Big ship is 16 pages.  Kinda fun, if you get bored, you just switch to a different border or area.  It's on 28 count China Pearl jobelan, one over one, dmc 938.