Tombstone Angel - Finished.

Kathy Barrick - Tombstone Angel
From the Just Cross Stitch magazine - October 2008
On Colour and Cotton Sampler Gold 28 count jobelan? - dmc flosses.
And finish #9 for 2020
Omitted the large block date numbers.  Otherwise, mostly as charted.

Finished the March section of the Linen and Threads 2020 Mystery Sampler.
This is top to bottom on the left side completed. Minus the initials.
PTP Gingerbread and dmc 154.

This was a good mail day.  The patterns were for flosses I got cheap at the LNS closing.  Flosses for 2 of the market charts I wanted.  And then flosses to fill in things that were nearly kitted.  .

I had a stitcher make me feel like crap.  She is a flosstube person, she had a pattern that was incomplete, and she was asking for help.   It's an OOP, kinda rare pattern.  I said I could probably help.  She emailed me, I emailed her the part she needed - and she could not be bothered to say - anything.   It was a person that I just randomly watched once, I don't value any interaction with helping or not helping her.  If I hold a door open - I expect to be acknowledged as another person in the world unless you are severly impaired.
I am just kinda sick of hearing about how wonderful this community is - it's really not for some of us.

A few days later...

Tombstone Angel - Kathy Barrick.
Enough that you can get a good idea of what the final result will be.  The fabric is more the color of yellow cake mix ready to pour into the baking pan.  The wings and flowers are a deep green, and the side leaves are an olive green, the circles get filled in with a steel gray.  I still like this, but I need to stitch on something else for a few days.  This was round two, and how far it got this time.  Otherwise, I just slow down and stitch less everyday.  And I am to that point on this. 

A second finish...

Erica Michaels - We the People.
Colour & Cotton - Sampler Gold probably.  With words in dmc 3781 and 829, and red and blue fancy floss.  My second 2020 finish.  What I changed:  Dropped the date at the bottom, cause it is stitched one over one - and I already stitch one over one, so that makes the date something I would have to alter and I do not see the point. The dmc colors worked better for the words.  It looks nicer in real life than the photo.  I changed some of the spacing in the words.  Extended the banner lines to match the length of the longer word at the bottom. I made the 'We the People' the dark dmc - it was charted to be white...  which felt a bit too much like -We the WHITE people...  and it tends to disappear into the fabric.
I started a bunch of stuff at the same time - and then got confused about what the fabric was - it's Colour and Cotton - but I used both Sampler Gold and Treasure Map - I think it's Sampler Gold jobelan 28.

Then started the Modern Folk Embroidery 2020 SAL monthly thing, Family Patchwork Sampler.
I used just the basic 28 count jobelan in Antique white jobelan and dmc 814 red. 
Went beyond the pattern, based on the photos - so not sure yet.  I enjoyed doing the 2018 one - so this took about 3 days, and since I just used stuff I already had - if I crash on it - not a big deal.

Tombstone Angel - Kathy Barrick - from an old Just Cross Stitch magazine. 
Picked this back up - had just the bottom circles and a leaf plus a bit more started.
This is Colour & Cotton - Sampler Gold 28 count jobelan - and dmc flosses. When I started a bunch of random smaller things from magazines - this was part of that - things that didn't really get a photo the first time round.  It's part of the - it's started, try to finish it plan.  This actually was fun to pick back up - and the colors are a great combination.  Maybe I was having a good few days of getting floss and fabric to match and started a bunch of things.