It's Another Finish...

Long Dog Samplers - The Token.
Finished and #15 for 2020.
12 wt Sulky spool stuff in white - on 25 count Victorian Red lugana, one over one.
Took 3 spools and I had 3 inches left in the needle. 
I had more, so I was not in a panic, I just was hoping to finish and not have to start another spool.
No sane stitcher should think - oh, she used three - three will be enough...   even while I was on that last thread I was thinking - three will not be enough.  And you might breeze thru and have a yard leftover.  I started with 7 spools - I don't like playing chicken and running out. 
Couple of small things were changed - just to make my eye prefer it mostly.  

Pictured with the spools just as a size reference. 
It is 7.5 inches wide by 9 inches high if you do it one over one on 25 count lugana.
Now I wanna just say - I did experiment with what fabric to use that Sulky on - and 28 was too tight if you had a solid area, so I went to this more standard 25 count, and it's perfect.  I use 25 counts if I have to stitch on black but I wanted to try this as a white on red. 
And it is about as perfect a size combination as you can get.  If you have any kinda wonky stitches, if you iron after and mist spray the fabric and floss - it kinda magically plumps all those thread even and makes it look like I am a wonderful stitcher.  I am not.  And the difference in using this is that it sits on the fabric higher, so it's a more textured result.  Nothing crazy, but more than a regular floss we are all used to using.  I still have four more spools of white - and I have a christmas santa thing I would love to try this again on - using that same Victorian Red 25 count. Both the fabric and the Sulky are on 123Stitch and at reasonable prices.  And let me add - the red never bled color onto the white thread.  Not while stitching - not when I misted it to iron it.  I never soaked or washed it roughly... but it is something I might have expected - and there just wasn't any problem.
I did look up to see if that Victorian Red was still on the site, and it is - with another red that I know nothing about and have never used.  But it is a wonderful combination for one over one using Sulky 12 weight on a spool.

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.

Some of This, A Little of That...

Started and finished the new Little House Needleworks - Home of a Needleworker.  On 30 ct portabello since I had it in my stash, but it is the called for I think.  Two over two.
Finished size is 6 x 6.5 inches.  I would like to try it again, or a 28 ct, one over one.  But the new floss colors are lovely.  I wanted to do it in the suggested version first.  My #5 finish for 2019.
I tried to put the interfacing on the back - I can't find my interfacing...  but I know I have some.  

Started this - Jenny Bean's Humble Servant from Shakespeare's Peddler.  It's on 28 ct antique white but camera shows yellow or cream.  Using the called for fancy flosses, one over one.

Then went to Long Dog Sampler - The Token, and filled in a few more motifs.  I still love this - it is 25 count, one over one, using just a white Sulky, and that is the perfect combination.  Thread sits higher on the fabric - giving it texture.  7.5 x 9 inches. 

Then I broke out something old to work on, this is where is was when I picked it up again..

This is where it is now.  Plum Street - Blackbird Fraktur.  Using called for fancy flosses, on 28 ct PTP Doubloon lugana, one over one.  I had to look up when I worked on it, a year ago in March.  It's much closer now.  Hoping to hang with this till I am done.  I bought the other older one recently, but I wanted to put them on the same fabric - it's not showing up correctly here, but it's lovely on Doubloon.