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?

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.