It's All About The Corners.

Skipping around, added the border since I was bored stitching in that corner.  That matched up perfectly on the first try.  So I started random filling in on that upper area. 

Picked back up Blackbird Designs - Our Lasting Friendship.  Filled it in.  Below is where it was when I picked it back up again.  I'm really pleased it got this much more added to it.

Catching Up.

Blackbird Designs.  Our Lasting Friendship.  On PTP 28 count Legacy lugana.  One over one, called for fancy flosses.  I had GAST Caramel and Straw Hat basically matching in color.  I reordered, different seller, think that Straw Hat was mislabeled as Caramel.  Now they are close, but different.  I understand dyeing is an imperfect art.  I am not whining or complaining.   Dyelots change.  Since Pam and Steph were doing monthly sections, I debated about this from when it was released, but then when I could do an approximate section monthly, seemed perfect.  But I had to catch up.  Box and border were done in March, this was April and basically caught up.  And I did enjoy stitching on it. 

Looked like this when I picked it up for round 2.  But am I trying to do it exactly with them - no.  

I ordered and got the Brenda Keyes motif book.  Fat Quarter Shop had it, and I could find a 10% off code by just asking google.   It arrived 10 days later, and was my first order from them.  Then I had seen the Scarlet House pattern with all the flower motifs.  And I saw the floss needed.  I wondered how many I already had in stash.  I needed just 4, and the pattern.  I debated...  then I put the fancy floss on a ring, and still debated...  I am not - oh, I have to stitch that, but I kept looking at it.  But having the floss ring of the called for threads and having 14 of the colors, I could see the colors next to me.  I kept looking, and finally decided, just order it!!!  Looking at it every other day is just maddening.  But if I had not put the floss on the ring and had it sitting near me - I might have been able to ignore it.  Signed up for Colour and Cotten fabric club again, so I am kinda hoping something lovely shows up that will work for that pattern in the next couple of months.  Trying not to make my new started things wipe out my finishes...  cause I am still trying to pull things I have already started, and finish those. 

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.