Coat of Arms

I've been making some really nice progress on Coat of Arms Band Sampler.  

page 21 2/21/17

page 22 2/25/17

2/27/17

I should finish page 23 tonight and make some headway on page 24.  After I finish this row of pages, I'm thinking about starting the next row.  Lust is still sitting on the coffee table staring at me though so I'll have to see how I feel after I finish page 25.

WIPS and a couple of floss tosses

Last week, I managed to get the rest of the black on page 2 done.  There is now over a skein of 310 stitched.  Saturday, I started filling in color and decided I'd had enough of color changes for a bit.  this is where I left Sea Witch.  I'll come back to her.

http://i1281.photobucket.com/albums/a507/skrieser/HAEDs%20Sea%20Witch/20170218_122529_zps424b4cpp.jpg

I pulled out Coat of Arms instead for some monochrome time.  This is far as I got Sunday.  I've almost finished page 21 but I don't have an updated picture.  

Saturday, my oldest had a basketball game.  So I checked the stash to see what I need to finish kitting up Mirabilia's Snow Queen and Santa's Sleigh.  After basketball we stopped by Hobby Lobby to pick up what I was missing.

I think my floss tosses look pretty good.  I'm using Wicked Garden by Colour Cascades Fabrics.  I took pictures on the same piece of fabric but you get the idea.  When I saw the fabric, I had a picture in my mind's eye of the northern lights behind them and this fabric is perfect.  I think there could be a problem with a couple of the DMC colors, but they're surrounded by other colors so I don't think they'll be an issue.

Snow Queen floss toss

Santa's Sleigh floss toss

Black

I spent a good amount of time stitching this weekend.  Most of it in black.  There are a couple shades of dark brown at the very top but so. much. black.  And I'm still not done.  I'm getting very close to having a full skein in there.  Thankfully my coverage is good and tent stitch goes so fast!

Page 22!

When I called it an evening Wednesday night, I only had 14 stitches left on page 22.  Last night, all I did was those 14 stitches, in 12 different colors.  But I think the result is worth it.

I moved the qsnaps to start page 23 but I don't know if I'm going to take her back off for a bit or not.  I'm thinking about picking Sea Witch back up for page 2.

 I was a little bad this week.  I'm participating in Stitch From Stash 2017A on Facebook.  But when Eclectic Bloke Designs announced their closing and all their charts 50% off, I went through their charts and bought several.  I'm still in the black though, so it's all good.

Confetti!

This is Sunday night's picture so I'm further than this now.  I am SO ready for a page finish!

The next page has the end of that band of flames that I've come to dread but the rest of the page looks like nice blocks of color.