What a day I had.
Jo,I had too much fun - also too much frustration. I really do know why some of these projects are WIPS.... I had originally selected 19 WIPS. I worked on 14 of them. I thought I had a great plan and was very organized when I started. Had a few stumbles along the way. I am posting pictures only of the work completed. Most of these before pic are on some page/post in my blog but in 1/2 of stitching - not much stitching difference but lots of insight. Please enjoy the pictures, no need to read all my descriptions - I wrote a lot of this for me - to help me organize my WIPS.
Trying to keep the pictures small - In Order of how I stitched. This is tribal wine glass. Started 2012 maybe 2013. stitched 3 little parts in the middle of glass - around the heart.
Thoughts After Stitching: Am starting over with different fabric and different thread different colors would like it to look like a glass of red wine.
My 40 count -- I just continued on the very last EVIL White Stripe. Again ripping out more than I stitched. I am determined to finish this little tiny project no matter what!!!!!
Upside down Celtic Beauty (2013 DCC) I love this - This was another Frog/Stitch project. There was a mistake in the border - I had to fix. Was happy to finish the gold to the end of the top. I will finish this one. It has a lot of beads - I am not a great beader, but for some reason it is really important to me to finish all those I started for that challenge.
Finished the P - T. Woodland Sampler - 2013 Challenge - Worked on this one earlier this year. I will finish this.
Touching the Autumn Sky - 2013 Challenge Before only the red stitches were complete. This is my first and only ever started Mirabilia. I love this design - It took me about 15 minutes to figure out where in the design these three little red bunch of stitches were. WHAT I LEARNED: Always make sure when you put a project down you know where in the chart you need to start. I knew it was in the center somewhere
This is Joan Elliot I started this for the 2013 Challenge also - for some reason this picture was not on my original page for this Challenge so I added a picture of this - I love this saying but wish I had not started with the border. It will be very pretty when finished even if all my kids are married a long time before this It will not be done by September 3, 2016 the date of DD#3's Wedding - I am looking for a quick but very pretty little something to stitch up for her.
This is when I broke for Lunch with my Sister's who took me out for a wonderful Birthday Lunch.
Patchwork Egg Basket - CS_N magazine Long ago start - one of the first evenweave projects. I completed the top purple design - all one color - easy stitching. Will Finish.
Liberty House - Leisure House - . Did the red door. I have been working in 2016 on this I will finish - this is one of those projects where everything is back stitched. I am not doing the border, or anything besides just the house.
Around the World in 80 Stitches. I completed nothing. I have only the outline of the very first heart done. I hate the fabric I started this on. And I am going to restart this one on a different fabric I think I really want to finish this because of all the Specialty Stitches.
SamSarah 2013 Challenge start. I don't like this fabric - but I do love this and love the colors. Finished the star and a little bit of something else - was missing the correct color and spent too much time trying to locate will Finish.
Dinner Time
2015 Start - Woneta Worked on her green hand and the yellow on her skirt. This I will finish will work on this one again soon. It is tedious because I am not use to the big blocks of stitching the same color - and back in the day it seems that was all I stitched. Wow how my stitching has changed over time. I love this Witch - I love all witches really.
One Hundred Years - Lizzie Kate Started 2015 Have cropped to show you what I completed in my 1/2 hour. I really want to finish this for one of my kids. I think it is a saying that is so important in the way we live our lives.
Stoney Creek Silent Night Cardinals 2013 Challenge. Worked on earlier this year and for the longest time I had it upside down and couldn't figure out where to add the branches I had planned on stitching. Finally figured it out. There are two tiny little patches of brown branches I completed.
This is Lizzie Kate Belle - I started a challenge in 2012 to stitch all these guys one a month on the same fabric. I got behind and have only a few left to complete. This will be a shame if I don't finish. I did more of her - the white a the bottom.
My Final piece of the day:
Yes there are stitches here. This was my project for the 2015 retreat. This was a year I took off from blogging - so there are no pictures of this. There were three projects - the little strawberry - completed, the pincushion completed and the needle book. The needle book - we had to baste first the outlines of the six pages. Which was a very long process. I had not stitched on anything since I finished the original basting. The next step is to backstitch the actual frame of each page. I worked on this backstitching - this was my first stitching on this since the retreat and it took me awhile reading the instructions and all. This will be a beautiful needle book and I will finish this so there will be many more pictures.
If you have made it this far you have made it to the end of the day. I kept out my most current wips to the last - and did not stitch on my RWB Nutcraker, God Bless America, my two LaDDa projects they are my most recently started and unfinished WIPS.
That is all for this post. I do hope it will not take me so long a to pick up these projects again. I have been in the New Start Something Small Enough To Finish mode - so we will see where my 2nd half of 2016 Stitching Joy takes me. My goals are set 90% of the time with no END DATE. So we will see. Once again thank you
Jo
