I have finally time to do some stitches and
show them on my monthly summary.
We have crossed the first half of the year and
that is the moment when I modify the list of projects to do I prepared at the
beginning of the year. Some of the projects I even didn’t have time to start
and I will be doing in 2019 and others are projects I have started but I am
disappointed or don’t like how they look. The good part is that I have included
new projects for this last part of the year, mainly for Halloween or Christmas
decoration.
So my list of projects to do is now as shown:
- Dreamcatcher:
33%
- Banner
of the Sabbats: 25%
Sewing Owls- Connie Gee Design SAL: 36%
CrossStitcher SALSeasonal BirdsGreen ManMD69 CinderellaPhases of the MoonWheel of the YearMonthly Mini Mandala: 25%Zodiac Pentagram- Queen
of Water: 90%
- A Year of Flowers: 66%
- Zen
Garden
- 12 Month, 12 Sachets: 66%
- Prickly
But Cute: 20%
- 12 Days of Christmas: 50%
- Magical Mistery SAL: 100%
- Blackwork
Tangram: 17%
- Halloween Owls: 8%
- Advent Calendar
- Halloween Unicorn
Entries in red means I advanced on them, while
in black are the ones I didn’t work on this period. I put in orange the
projects I will do next year, in violet the ones I have abandoned and in green
are the project I am going to start now.
To start
with my advances of that period I want to show the advance I did on my “A Year
of Flowers”. It is a Cuore e Batticuore design which I am
presenting in the Gifted Gorgeousness SAL 2018. I finished 3 more flowers and I
am completely up to date in that SAL now. The flower corresponding to June is a
daisy. For July I embroidered what I think it is an iris and for August I have
no idea about which flower it is (can be a fucshia), but it is lovely.
My Hooties
12 Days of Christmas has advanced also, but I am still two months behind
schedule and I need to speed up if I want to finish it by this year Christmas.
I finished the Day 5 (5 Golden Rings) and Day 6 (6 Geese-a-Laying).
The aromatic sachet
collection is also up to date now. I chose this time four Vervaco designs and I
am very happy as they look gorgeous, specially the two in black and white
And moving
on to blackwork, I became up to date with the Connie Gee Design Blackwork SAL.
The second row is nearly over and I am waiting restless to have time to make
the 10th design.
The two new
projects I already started are part of what is going to be my Halloween
decoration. One project consists in owl disguised with Halloween creepy
costumes, as vampire, ghost, bat, etc. I sterted with the one who is on top of
a pumpkin. I chose a olive green 16 count fabric for this project.
The other
project is a Halloween unicorn. I love unicorns, that is not a secret. I have
unicorns printed on my water bottle, my mug, sleepers, …..and when I saw that
design I couldn’t avoid buying it. I am going to stitch it on 14 count pale yellow
Aida fabric. After finishing this one I think I will buy and do the Christmas
one, with a poinsettia on his head.
I am also
going to start shortly a Advent Calendar, but that will be for the next month.
The
question Measi Musing is asking this month is :
“What is
more satisfaying for you and why - the process of stitching a piece or the
finish?”
Definitely
for me is the process of stitching. I love the thread and fabric setting up,
the excitement of the first stitches and mainly see how my piece of art is growing
and showing the final design. I have loads of embroidered pieces in which the
cross stitch part is finish but the job remains unwashed in a box. And my
weakest point, if i leave a small portion unfinished it will be like that
forever.
Have a
happy stitching month.
