That, then the other, then something else....

 It has been a while...  I worked on Unicorn, Peacock, Badger for a while.  I finished the upper right corner fill in.  I think ithe top third is complete at this point.  But it got tossed back in the pile.

Worked on this for a short time.  Friends of the Hart from Plum Street Samplers.

Simple Living Sampler from Heartstring samplery.  I started the words, but the lettering was something I wanted to change just slightly, so the vines will have to adjust on the left side, meaning the words all have to come first.  It got tossed back at this point.  

After seeing this hanging in a flosstube video, mine had to come back out again.  This is where it was when I picked it back up again.  I reversed the bunny.  

This is where it is now after I finished adding the letters at the top, and reversing the rooster.  It's Heart's Content - Splendor.  I am using dmc 815 not the suggested 902.  

The Goode Huswife - Old Alphabet Blocks.  This was a pattern I added to another order, and am stitching it first.  It's on 28 count antique white lugana, using suggested dmc floss, and I'm stitching it two over two.  It was gonna be like 3 inches square if I stitched it one over one.  It has used almost the whole skein of the dark color to get to this point.  

I ordered fabric, and floss, and a pattern that I had liked a while back.  Nothing in the fall show caught my eye enough to order, so I ordered that old caught my eye pattern.  An older pattern I ordered used anchor flosses, and that took me a moment to figure out.  But I got the floss, and fabric, and it's two over two, because it has a silly one over one in the center, so stitching this two over two is a bit of practice for something I don't do very often.  But I am jumping around a bit from one started thing to something else, to wanting to start something new.  The Old Alphabet Blocks should get finished just because it will only take another day to finish it.  Three days total, and it will be done. 

Worked on Several Things...

 Renato Parolin - Rossi balocchi.  Finish #3 for 2023.  

Worked on Love Never Fails - Barbara Ana Designs.  

This is where it was when I picked it back up again.  Lots got added, but it got tossed back in the pile till next time.

Picked up On Prudence - Plum Street Samplers.  

This is where it was when I picked it back up again.  I am working the right side border, and it looks like it will line up, I'm just not quite there yet. 

Finished #17 and #18 for 2022...

SalemSisters II - Plum Street Samplers.  Finish #17 for 2022.  This was a restart on a different fabric.  And it's a lovely fabric.  Colour and Cotton Spiced Honey lugana 28 count, one over one, using the suggested fancy flosses.  I skipped adding the extra stuff at the top.  Sometimes less is just more. 

Finish #18 for 2022.  This was the first version, and I grabbed just an antique white 28 count jobelan.  I just felt it looked like a new stitchers first project done on a white fabric.  Hence the restart.  But there was nothing wrong with it, so I decided to just finish stitching it too.  It's one over one, so no RIP in the fire flames.  I did stitch the center diamonds in black, they are supposed to be gray, but it's finished.  

I'm happy that I got that many finished for the year.  And many, like these, were 2022 starts, that actually did get finished.  

To start 2023, I grabbed from the already started pile again, and found I was missing a floss, so on the second day of the new year.... I was out to buy a dmc floss.  I had even stitched a bit of that color.  I clearly had it at some point.  I used to make a list of what I had already started, but it doesn't really matter.  Why waste time making a list, when you can be spending time stitching?

Random Grab

Blackberry House - Plum Street Samplers.  Just a random grab from the already started pile.  Six pages total, and I have something stitched on every page at this point, but no page is completed.  Not sure how much longer I stay with this.  And I did have a couple moments of off a stitch, and I took it out and put it in correctly.  It wasn't huge areas, probably only a thread length each time. 
 

This is where it was when I picked it back up again.  As for the other stuff, I get a port put in next week, and chemo will start soon. 

This, then That, then the Other Thing...

 

Salem Sisters 2 from Plum Street Samplers got started...  on white, which was a crappy fabric choice basically.  But I was enjoying stitching it, till I realized it looked like a stitchers first project...

Then I tried picking up from the already started stuff.... decided to try filling in pages, but I could not even finish filling in that peacock on the lower left....

Courtney Collection - Knightmare ( mirrored ).  Decided to start the mirror image of this one.  But I didn't last at this one very long either.

 This was Barbara Ana - Love Never Fails... which I decided to restart.  This version was on a sort of suggested color fabric, but her dress disappearing bothered me.  So I ordered two possible different fabrics, and it got restarted.

And this is the restart version so far.  My camera is not doing this color justice at all.  It is called Peach Rose lugana 28 count.  I would say it's a cantaloupe color.  So far, it looks really good on this.  And it's way outside my comfort zone of usual colors.  It would fit on a fat 1/8, which let me by a couple different odd colors to try.  So I started the projects by trying to put something on just white, and feeling disappointed I had picked that, and ended happy with trying a Peach Rose fabric.  Actually, I think I'm gonna like this fabric more than the suggested brown tone.  

Other than starting new things, which everything I started is part of a set, and a restart... and trying to work on something started... it was good.  But honestly, now I'd like to do a restart on that Salem Sisters design.  It's a quick stitch.  Doing it again after finishing this one, no problem. 

Finish #8 for 2022

Plum Street Samplers - Salem Sisters 3.  Finish #8 for 2022.  Done on Cameo Peach 28 count jobelan, one over one, using the suggested fancy flosses.  I think I last worked on this 8/22/2018. 

Above is where it was when I picked it back up again.

Plum Street Samplers - Salem Sisters 1.  This was completed some other year, but I added the cats at the bottom, per the pattern.  Originally, I omitted the cats, but the plan was to do all three Salem Sisters designs on this fabric, but turns out, it's not big enough.  I tried to add floss to the block letters to make the 'A' 'T' and 'S' more visible, but neither the black or the orange worked, so need to match the thread in the fabric maybe.  A project for another day.  It bothered me when I originally completed it too.

I also have the Salem Sisters 2 pattern and floss.  I grabbed my fabric stash, just to find a cream, or white to start it.... but no fabric screamed " USE ME !".   I also got in that newest Ink Circles littlest Ship pattern.  I wanna start that kinda.  And I was also working on 'Sarah Spurr' from 'the pile of started stuff ', and I am close to another finish.  But for some unknown reason, grabbed this Salem Sisters from the pile, and it got finished first.  It doesn't really matter which order things get done.  But there is a bit of a trick when I am trying to finish things from that already started pile, and two new things nearly get started.

Much Better Than The First Time.

 On Prudence - Plum Street Samplers.  A restart on this was clearly what I needed.  To me this almost looks square, but the stitch count is 303 wide by 263 high.  The math said it would be 10.82 x 9.39 inches.  Rough measuring of the stitching says it IS about that.  I honestly could be WAY off somewhere and not have a clue yet.  I'm ready to toss it back into the pile, and pull something different again. 

Additional -  I did put this away, and I grabbed something else.  I was looking for the previous photo I had of it, and had trouble finding it.  But while going photo by photo, there was another different photo of On Prudence with that bowl vase and more up the bottom right side border.  So now I'm not sure if I have another start of On Prudence floating around somewhere???  I'm now guessing this might be my 3rd version?  I'm clueless.  

Restart

 

Restart on Plum Street Samplers - On Prudence.  Restarted on Dove Gray 28 count jobelan, one over one.  Originally started on 28 count Navy Bean linen, not sure if it was vintage or just Navy Bean, but the called for fabric in a count I was comfortable with, and my LNS had.  Above is after just one night of stitching and I already have more completed.  Today I picked out the stitching from the original start, and can continue with my restarted version. 

New Starts This Round

Bent Creek - Begin Row.
New start on 25 count Wichelt lugana in Moss / Celadon, one over one, using the suggested fancy floss.  I am really happy with the fabric color for this - a light green.
There were lots of new starts this round. Begin Row was the last one, and my favorite. 

 

Plum Street Samplers - Blackberry House.
New start on Colour and Cotton - Swiss Coffee 28 count lugana, one over one.  Using the suggested fancy flosses.  The house color is the suggested, but mine is a darker dye lot.  The house is not my favorite part, so I'm just letting it be weird.  When my LNS went out of business, their floss was cheap, but you had to find the a chart that needed the floss they still had left.  This one they had 8 of the 14 colors.  I was not gonna just buy random colors, I bought for stuff I had or wanted to do. 

Lizzie Kate - Things Unseen. 
Using all the suggested stuff so that the button set will work.  Stitching two over two is not my thing, but I'm trying.  I like the pattern, and might have to do it a second time over one. 

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.

Stitching Along

A new start and finish #13 for 2020.

Stanley from The Trilogy.

Stitched on Wheat luguna, 28 count, one over one, suggested fancy flosses, except one that is suggested dmc.   Added the snowflakes in the lower left, cause it had nothing, and felt the snowflakes were more balanced than a year and/or initials. 

Then the pair of them together...

Plum Street - Autumn Fraktur.
Spent the rest of the night working on the bird on the left.  It only had feet and the end of the tail, and the end of the tail was off, so the first thing was to frog, and then fill in lots more of it. 
It's on Doubloon lugana 28 count, one over one.  Gonna toss this back, and pull something else.

Finish #12 in 2020

Plum Street Samplers - The Beekeeper
Finish #12 in 2020.
Used Colour and Cotton - Spellbook, 28 count jobelan. One over one.
Used suggested fancy flosses except the green, which is the suggested dmc.

Made a few small changes - like giving her smaller feet, making the bees more golden using the darker hive floss, rather than the lighter hive floss.  Cheated her out of a face by just leaving her more plain.  Parts of it are lovely, it was a chart that always caught my eye, but not quite what I expected when it was up close and personal.  But you never know, and it's kinda fun to see the result. 
This was a Black Friday purchase along with the finished chart from yesterday.

Two More Finished...

Plum Street Samplers - Serial Bowl #4
Finish #11 for 2020.
On 28 count Cameo Peach jobelan, one over one.  Using suggested dmc flosses, except for the red, which is Classic Colorworks - Bandana.
This is the perfect fabric for this - and kinda miserable to use for most other things because of the color.  If I say the fabric is kinda the suggested color of the barn, but lighter?  The light color of the flower and the barn was what I didn't like - so I picked Bandana, and it works.  Altered a few other things, widened the grass, otherwise the flowers were wider than the grass, which is fine, but I just preferred this.
Fully admitting that some of the things I try to alter come out as horrible - this one was a winner.
Got at the black Friday sale when it went on sale with the other pattern I wanted, The Beekeeper.
This got started between other things this year, I just didn't post a photo till now.  So it was a new start, and a finish this year.

Dutch Treat Designs - Needle Small With Magic Pow'r.
Finish #10 for 2020.
Colour and Cotton fabric - Lunar 28 count jobelan, 154 dmc, both have a lovely dark purple wine cast to them.  The colors are much more wonderful together in real life.  
Finished as far as I can still post a photo without the name I want to add.  The name has been gridded out, and will go in the box, but why put her name out on the internet when I can avoid it.  Changed a bit of the spacing between letters, made "pow'r" - "power".  but it's mostly the pattern.  

Playing with Colors

Finish #6 for 2020.
Plum Street Samplers - Blackbird Fraktur.  On 28 count Doubloon lugana, fancy flosses.
This is a good photo - maybe not quite this dark or golden.  Photo below is what it looked like when I picked it back up this week.  A couple changes, but mostly per the pattern.

But you can compare and see my camera is sometimes way off.

 Dutch Treat Designs - Needle Small with Magic Pow'r...  A little more got added.

Blackbird Designs - Blessings Be Thine.  This was a new start.  And it's nearly done.  I have a couple more leaves, and a bird, and a bit of fill in.  This is just a - let's play with the colors - version.  I decided to try a green fabric - this is Dusty Green / Olive Green jobelan.  The pattern suggest white for the stars - but white doesn't really show up well in the normal version - I had thought it might on the green - it sucked - so tried Chalk - still awful.  So went to a gold - that gold was too harse, so ended up with this third gold - it's Colour and Cotton - Midas.  The green called for I had - but mine was more brown than green.  I wanted more of a green for the holly leaves - so picked a Weeks floss called - Holly.  The red and brown are the suggested. 
I'm not really happy with the result.  But you never know till you play and try.  Camera is really making the fabric wrong - it's not quite this awful in real life. 

New Starts, A New Finish

A new year, new start, and finish.
The Trilogy - Beatrice.  It's about the size of a playing card.  Used the fancy flosses mostly, and on PTP Sand, one over one.  The kid in me has always liked the tongue twister series that Trilogy did, and so during that closeout sale, I got this one. 
My first 2020 finish. 

Plum Street Samplers - The Beekeeper.  My new year, new start.
A crap picture.  It's maybe the size of a postcard?  Fancy floss on Colour and Cotton - Spellbook.
I started this, stopped and did Beatrice, then went back and added more to this.  Always liked this pattern as a kit, but not my thing to buy kits.  They are almost always on a fabric I would never stitch on, which I understand.  And as just the pattern it was on the fence, to order or not...  On sale, it got ordered with another pattern that was a fence sitter that turned up in the same sale.  

I was able to give blood platelets yesterday.  The first time for 2020.  

Progress then ....

 Plum Street - Friends of the Hart.
Above is where I picked it back up.  Below is what I got done before it went back in the pile again.

Then I just  grabbed other stuff to start...

Heartstring Samplery - Simple Living Sampler.
Fancy flosses.  But the colors are not my taste.  I like the sampler, I'm trying it in the suggested flosses, you never know.  Antique White jobelan 28 count.

Stacy Nash Primitives - Hallowe'en Jack Sewing Roll.
Colour and Cotton Jazlyn 28 count in Steel.  Dmc 310.

With Thy Needle and Thread - Fruit For a Song CS49.
Uses all dmc and nothing fancy.  Photo sucks.  On Colour and Cotton - Alabaster 32 ct jobelan.
Trying it 1 over 2 - which I rarely try.  But with the large grass area, and using dmc, I can try a hunk at a time.
** And I did see I also started another Lizzie Kate - Wouldn't It Be Nice....  forgot that one...
Today I switched and grabbed something from the stuff I have started.  I have started way too many new things lately.  I need a finish.  I was really happy with the top one and the progress, and then just went off the rails.