Floss Friday #37

Happy St Patrick’s Day! Hope this finds you with plenty of green beer and irish stew.

Just recovering from feeling not quite sick, but not quite myself. Just Blah! Today was my first day feeling even semi-normal. It must have been the chicken noodle soup and herbal tea that did. Well… Maybe the extra sleep too.

I still got my stitching in except for yesterday where I slept most of the day and didn’t meet any goals except to feel better. My last post was two weeks ago so we have a lot of catching up to do.

Starts & Finishes

My March plan includes six new starts and five finishes. I got a nice start this past two weeks while working on some of the faster / smaller projects.

FINISH: February Year of Celebration by Hands on Design (WIPGO for March)

I was pleasantly surprised when I was able to finish this one. When I was looking at it, I thought it would take me at least two more sittings before I finished so imagine my surprise when I actually finished it. Check off one of my WIPGO March projects! It so pretty.

This was stitched on 16 ct dirty aida with called for fancy floss.

START: March Year of Celebration by Hands on Design

After wrapping up February, it was quite natural to jump in and start March. I am not sure if I am going to do more with this one this month, but it felt good to get it started anyway.

FINISH: Hello February by Hands on Design

This one was another small project that I initially thought would take longer and am thrilled to finish it. Sometimes when I am working on these, I just can’t put them down. This was one of them. I find the simplicity just fascinating.

Stitched on 16 white aida with called for DMC floss.

START: Hello March by Hands on Design

So it was only natural to jump in and start March right? When I was doing thread pulls for February, I had pulled March so it was just in the bag waiting for me to start…..

WIP Updates

This month I have a list of 16 active WIPS I plan to work on. With a few of those being targeted to make significant progress.

WIPGO Projects:

March’s WIPGO projects were Year of Celebration (which I finished – see above) and May Calendar Crates.

May Calendar Crates by Stitching with the Housewives

I have gotten a couple of hours in on this one but now that I have almost worked on every project at least once, I hope to put in more hours this next week. After making all the corrections (unstitching and restitching, slight design changes to compensate for mistakes, etc) I am now down to the top 3 borders of this chart. I have already planned another three nights this month on this one. I am not sure why I am struggling with the Calendar Crate series but I am just not …. motivated like I am with other stuff. But that is okay. It is about the journey, not the destination. This is how it was initially with the Truckin Along Series for me as well.

Non WIPGO Projects:

I made a dent in my 16 WIPS. Here we go…

Fruit of Plenty by Modern Folk Embroidery

I set a goal to work three nights – on this jumbo sampler. I intentionally decided to do this at the beginning of the month. I am very happy those with the results of those three evenings.

April Cottage of the Month by Country Cottage Needleworks

My ultimate March goal for this project is to finish this one. I was disappointed that I didn’t finish the cottage the two nights I did work on this so far. Once I finish the cottage, everything else seems to flow faster.

Mr July, A Calendar Gnome by Charlie’s Needle

I had set a goal last week to finish the gnome and I did! I even started working on the eagle. Great progress on this project. I decided to hold off on outlining his face until a little later.

The Needleworker (Snowman Collector Series) by Cottage Garden Samplings

I know this is a very detailed chart and I am enjoying the process. It just seems to be taking forever. I took it with me on the hockey trip but didn’t get as many hours as I have before due to the game schedule, but it is coming along nicely.

Temperature Butterflies by Stitchin Mommy

Why is outlining the butterfly taking so long. Yes I am impatient. Finally halfway done with the outline. Who knew outlining is the hard part.

January Stackable by It’s Sew Emma (FQS)

Stitching these trees were downright fun! I love these colors and how you can’t even tell where the color change is. So very pretty!

August Snapshot by Pine Mountain Designs

I worked on finishing the borders this week. I was one row off so I had to undo and redo to make it look good. Not sure where the error happened and don’t really care now. I am almost done with all the picture borders!

Prim Stitch Series by Bee in my Bonnet (Lori Holt)

This is another jumbo project and I always procrastinate pulling it out but then love stitching on it. I was able to finish the flower and decided I really should finish the border (and so I started it) but I couldn’t resist putting a few stitches into the cat.

Upcoming Plans & Thoughts

I have a few WIPS I still haven’t worked on but also a few more starts to make so this week I have penciled in the following projects:

• Big Hearted Tiny Town – center house
• Start March Nine patch
• Start Let’s Talk Spring perforated paper tulips
• Butterfly Dream – outline one butterfly
• May Calendar Crates – one top border
• Tea Thyme – one evening working on filling in the cup
• April Cottage – Finish the cottage

Peggy Stockwell