Lost in Stitches: January 2018

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Garden Verses update

When I picked Garden Verses back up, she looked like this.

After the weekend, I left her looking like this.

While she's out this time, I would like to get the bottom half the chart done but that may be asking a lot. At the rate I'm going, I may just get the dress filled in where I've already done some work.

Monday, January 22, 2018

Garden Verses

I didn't make as much progress this weekend as I wanted but it was more than I expected.

Sunday, January 21, 2018

A finish!

The last time I worked on Irish Chain I had started the backstitched green vine. This time, I decided I wanted a simpler work and the green vine and the yellow flowers, while pretty, were too much. So I frogged the green. This left me with a very simple, pretty quilt. I don't know what I'm going to do with the rest of the Kreinik silks that came in this kit, but I'm sure there will be something, someday.

This is the picture from the kit.

and here is my finish.

Garden Verses is up next.

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

1.16.18 update

I'm still working on Polar Mandala. When I quit for the day last night, I had completed 3056 stitches out of 28,900 stitches in part 1 which is only 10.57% completed **gasp**

I think I'm going to give this one a break for a bit. I brought Irish Chain and Mirabilia's Garden Verses back upstairs last night. I think I'm going to pick out the green vines in the border since it looks too dense on 28 ct 1x1 and I think I like the simpler look without it.

We'll see how it goes.

Monday, January 8, 2018

Polar Mandala

Since tax season has started at work and I'm already working 55 hours plus per week, my stitching time is suffering. But I have made progress on Polar Mandala.

I'm starting to feel a little burned out on over one stitching so I may be rotating to something else. But for right now, I'm going to stick with this.

Monday, January 1, 2018

2018 preview and goals

This year, I've decided to start another Chatelaine for my New Year, New Start. Last weekend, I pulled Polar Mandala out of my kitted projects and made sure everything for my conversion was there along with all the DMC. I was missing three DMC. I've picked up two of them, but Michaels didn't have one in stock. I'm sure I have the last one somewhere but tax season approaches so I'm not sure how much time I'll have since I work for a CPA firm.

Here's my floss toss and the screen shot of Polar Mandala.