Finish #7 for 2024

 

Finish #7 for 2024.  Mary Woodrow, Violets & Verses.  Dmc 3799 floss, on Dove Gray 28 count jobelan, one over one.  I changed the word 'youth' at the end to be the more matching style of letters.  It was fun.  As I said before, I started this when I started chemo.  Then it got pushed to the side.  It's now been almost two years, and there were months when I didn't stitch, so it's lovely to have it finished.

This is A Winter Kaleidoscope from Modern Folk Embroidery.  The first two pages of twenty completed for September, and I'm going back to this next for the two pages for October.

Ink Circles - Squirrels of Sumatra.  This is three pages finished of nine pages total.  It's a third done, but the end pages are a bit smaller to be fair.  The colors are way off in the photo, it's more of a brown on brown. 

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. 

Two More Finishes...

Finish #9 for 2023.  Carriage House - Blooming Basket.  Used PTP Vellum lugana 28 count, one over one, using suggested dmc flosses.  The pattern was one of several patterns purchased from a shop closing.  Not my favorite colors, but it was okay. 

Finish #10 for 2023.  Little Red Schoolhouse Pinkeep - Pansy Patch Quilts and Stitchery.  On PTP Ale 28 count, one over one, using Gloriana silk in the 062 Cranberry color.  When I saw it, I ordered it.  

Violets and Verses - Mary Woodrow.  Went back to this one, and the borders met up.  On the pattern the  "U" and "V" were reversed on that completed line, so I just fixed it and did it first so I would not forget.  Dove Gray 28 count jobelan, and dmc 3799, so a gray on gray effect.  However, I don't think Dove Gray is offered anymore.  

My treatment ended... I have follow up things, and my insurance might have ended.  It took me 51 weeks, and I really pushed at the end to get the last couple of appointments in before June ended to be sure I was covered. 

Stitching on lots of things...

 Finish #5 for 2023.  Heart In Hand - Bluebird Sampler.  Used the suggested Chesapeake Bay floss on Colour and Cotton Spiced Honey, 28 count lugana, one over one..  

Finish #6 for 2023.  The freebie pattern from Hello from Liz Mathews website.  Stitched on just a scrap of white 28 count lugana, one over one, using Classic Colorworks Bandana floss.  

I tried adding more to this... Brick House Sampler - With Thy Needle and Thread. 

Not much got added, this is where it was when I picked it up again.

This is Violets & Verses - Mary Woodrow.   A new start.  Done on Dove Gray jobelan 28 count, one over one, using dmc 3799.

Another new start - Teresa Kogut - Nature, on 25 count white lugana, one over one, using the suggested floss colors.  So far, this one is a fun stitch.  

Another new start - Marjorie Massey - Quaker Street.  On PTP Gingerbread 28 count, one over one, using Anchor black.  I am one stitch wide on the right side....  I think.  I don't want to start over.  I'm not sure how much being off is gonna confuse me.  I'm not sure I'm thrilled with the results of this start, so there might be a restart on this.  But I just love the pattern.  Might just need a different color combination.