2017, review

I think I've had a pretty productive 2017.  I've had 9 full coverage page finishes and 7 other page finishes.  I finished two bands of Loara Standish and finished 3 pages of Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler.  Not bad!  I'm hoping next year sees more progress since **knock on wood** there will not be a job search to get in the way.

Last night, I finished page one of The Forgotten, which you can see below.  After I put that away, I pulled Irish Chain back out to see how far I could get today.  I think I did pretty good for one day.  I'm debating leaving some of the viney green out though.  Let me know what you think.

Here's my progress from 2017 in pictures

New start

1/1/17

The Forgotten by Charting Creations

2x1 tent 28 ct Monaco

Goal:  page 1

Goal met 12/30/17!

New start!

1/1/17

He Came With the Rain by Unconventional XStitch

Goal:  page 1

Goal met!  8/18/17

Sea Witch by HAED

started 1/1/16

2x1 tent 28 ct Monaco

Goal:  page 2

Goal met 12/10/17

Coat of Arms

started 3/12/12

1x1 full x 40 ct from HDF

before:

Goal:  next row of pages and decide which row to skip

Goal met 3/6/17

I've decided to just stitch until I get too close to the edge for my taste and skip the rest.

Love Thy Thread

Lonliness of Autumn

started 9/6/14

2x1 tent 28 ct Monaco

before:

Goal:  Page 5-6 to finish row

Didn't even pull this one out.

Lust

started  10/1/09

1x1 full x 28 ct Monaco

before:

Goal:  Page 22-24

Goal met!

Page 24 8/12/17

Earth Song

started 3/2009

1x1 full x 25 ct Lugana

before:

Goal:  next page

Didnt' pull this one out.

Loara Standish

started 1/1/13

1x3 50 ct Kingston

before:  

Goal:  Band 3

goal met 8/31/17

HAED's Nightshade

started 10/31/13

1x1 full x 28 ct Monaco

before: 

Goal:  page 6

Didn't pull this out.

The Master (Tilton Crafts)

started 5/5/13

2x1 tent 28 ct Monaco

before:

Goal:  page 4-5 to finish row

page 4 finished 11/25//17

page 5 12/2/17

started 4/11/15

DMC 16 Color SAL

1x1 full x 40 ct from HDF

before:

goal:  finish

Didn't touch it.  Thinking out frogging it all.

started 5/10/15

Eclectic Bloke Designs Warrior Alice

2x1 tent 28 ct Monaco

before:

Goal:  page 3

Didn't touch this either.

started 6/1/15

HAED's Her Private Garden

2x1 tent 28 ct Monaco

before:

Goal:  page 2

Didn't happen.

Chatelaine's The Heritage Sampler

started 7/25/15

2x2 28 ct Monaco

Goal:  3rd section

Goal Met 7/2/17

HAED's SS Daybreak

started 10/31/15

2x1 tent 28 ct Monaco

Goal:  page 2

Didn't touch it.

Star Spangled Banner by Northern Expressions Needlework

started 5/30/16

 7/4/17

Goal:  finish short red/white bands

Chatelaine's Hawaiian Garden Mandala

started 7/31/16

Goal:  finish part 1

Didn't touch this one either.

Tilton's Feathers in the Wind

started 10/1/16

Goal:  finish page 2

goal met 8/26/17

Woodland Wonder by Glendon Place

started 12/12/16

Goal:  finish

Goal met!  Finished 1/10/17

New start!

3/10/17

Chatelaine's Beaded Dragonfly Tile

9/1/17

9/13/17

New start!

4/3/17

Steve Rousseau's Old European Sampler from Needleprint 

page 1 completed 4/14/17

page 2 11/15/17

Mirabilia's Garden Verses

started 2007

photo from 2017 pre stitching

After: 6/2/17

New Start!

Chatelaine's Blue Moroccan Lace Mandala

7/5/17

7/18/17

Irish Chain from Kreinik

started 9/15/17

 12/31/17

 Nora Corbett's Santa's Sleigh

started 9/23/17

 finished 11/6/17

Creeping ever closer

I'm slowly working my way towards a page finish on The Forgotten.  The one little stitch at the bottom left is where the bottom of the page is.  Will I make it before the end of the year?  I certainly hope so.  

I've also taken a picture of my floss toss for the Polar Mandala.  I'm using plain white 28 ct Monaco but I think there is going to be plenty of sparkle to make up for any shortcomings.

Pretty!

The Forgotten

I've made pretty steady progress on The Forgotten over the last week.  There were a couple of days where I didn't pull it out of my bag but I'm almost a third of the way done with page 1.  Right now, all I'm doing is dark blues and greens.  I'm looking forward to other colors.

I've also been talking to a friend about New Year's starts.  She's planning on starting Caribbean soon and I've been kicking around the idea of starting a new Chatelaine as well.  Polar Mandala has been high on the list.  I even bobbinated the DMC for it this weekend.  Now, I'm debating about pulling a different one out.  I need to go spend some time with my kits and make a decision.

Until next time...

Sea Witch

Last night I finished page 2 of Sea Witch.

I almost kept her out since most of the next page is black and would not have taken long to do but there are lots of other things to stitch!

The Forgotten from Tilton Crafts came out next.  It was one of my new starts this year and only had a few stitches in it.

As it turns out. Those were the wrong color so I frogged them and restitched them in the correct color.