Finish #6 for 2024

 

Finish #6 for 2024.  The Goode Huswife - Old Alphabet Blocks.   Used suggested dmc flosses.  On 28 count antique white lugana, two over two.  Took 3 days to stitch.  It was fun to stitch, which is what we hope for when we stitch something.  

I did finish those birds on the bottom left, but trying to look up numbers that would work in the spacing was something I was not having much luck with.  So it went back in the pile again.  

But since I was looking for my alphabet books, I took two of my totes of started things, and pulled a few things out that were calling for me to stitch them again.  So I now have just one handy tote to grab from of things I want to grab again.  And I can ignore the rest for a while.  Although, there is one more that I can hear asking to be stitched again.  It's just somewhere in the other two totes.  I even found one that I was sure I had finished, that clearly was not finished.  I know finishing the one above looks like the obvious one, but I don't like the stuff under the tree, and I don't have anything else that is an obvious fit for that space.  So rather than get stuck, I just move on.

This is Mary Woodrow from Violets & Verses.  It was something I started while I was doing chemo.  Borders were easy to do while in the chair.  But I finished treatment, and this got tossed in the pile.  This month is two years since my surgery, which was before my chemo.  Some people do chemo first, then surgery.  I love all the funny extra letters, so I really do love the pattern.  Below is what it looks like now.  Just a note if you have the pattern, the U and V are reversed.  I corrected it before, but other things, like it not having a 10, I left per the pattern. 

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.