6/21/21

 It's finished!!

5/22/21

 Page 15

Now, I need to take a break.  I've frogged a bunch this morning.  Finishing this is one of goals this year so it will be back.

11/3/2020

Progress on my Old European Sampler is still steady.  I'm over halfway through page 11.

I'm trying to get through this page before I pull my youngest son's stocking back out to try and finish this month so I can FFO before Christmas 

10/19/20

Last time we spoke, I showed where I was in week one of #outofthestashatlast.  I was right, I didn't get too much more done on To Laugh Often but when I pull it back out, it shouldn't take much more than a week to finish.

For week two, I pulled out Peace by A Stitcher's Hands.

I discovered that some of the colors I originally converted from the AVAS years ago either didn't work with my fabric or I didn't like how they worked together so this conversion is still a work in progress but I think I'm close.

Here's where I left it.  I'm not sure about the blues in the flower.

For week three, I pulled out Growth Rings from Ink Circles.  I've got the magazine version of this and the called for colors from Hand-Dyed Fibers.  

Tangent - did you know Vikki is dyeing again??  Hand-dyedfibers.com

I started this on Silkweaver's 40ct French Vanilla Swirl and this is where I've gotten to

For some reason, I couldn't get into this project.  I think it's starting too many new things at once, but who knows.  For now, I've pulled it off my q-snaps and pulled out Old European Sampler by Steve Rousseau via Needleprint.  

Here's is my progress 

Until later!

 

5/1/2020

This week has been crappy but the stitching is always there.

I finished page 9 of Old European Sampler Tuesday 4/28

 And page 10 today.

Now I'm debating on a new start of The English Whitework Sampler from The Needle's Prayse

Or Mary Clyton  from Hands Across the Sea.

Or I could just pull out Coat of Arms.

4/27/2020

I forget how fast smaller pages go.

Page 3 of He Came With the Rain finsihed 4/25/2020.

I'm really loving Pattern Keeper!

Saturday morning, I bobbinated the DMC for Mary Clayton from Hands Across the Sea with the intention of starting her. 

 But no.  My Old European Sampler came back out of the bag and made some very nice progress over the weekend.

By early Saturday afternoon, I'd finished the interior rows of stitching and started on the edge of the page.

 My current progress is looking good!

I'm hoping to finish this page tonight and get a big start on the next page.  I was considering a new start with Mary but I think I'm going to try to change random starts into a type of reward with every five goals met.  Page 10 of this project either gets me to that or a goal short.  I'll have to double check.  I'm enjoying this project again which is a bonus and will probably keep it out until I'm not anymore.

4/8/2020

I finished page 7 last night then got a good start on the bottom of the top band.  This page seems to be skinnier than the last one so I'm hoping it doesn't take as long.

4/6/2020

So close!

I'm hoping to finish this page tonight.

I really like that last band.  Kind of a pain to stitch but the result is lovely.

4/1/2020

I started this 1/1/2020 and just haven't had the urge to go back to it.  As I've watched the progression of the pattern on Facebook, I'm glad I haven't picked it back up.  I'll probably frog it and put the fabric and silk back into stash for another project.

I'm still working on Old European Sampler from Steve Rousseau via the old Needleprint blog.  I'm hoping for a page finish in the next couple of days.

12/9/19

Progress on Loara Standish, still reversible!

Steve Rousseau's Old European Sampler got a few more stitches this week.

The Earth Song came back out.  I would really like to see this column of pages done by the end of the month.

4/23/19

Last week was the break I needed from Lust.  I'm ready to pick her back up.

Old European Sampler page 6

Row finish!

I finished page 5!  

As much fun as this is to work on, other projects call my name.

Polar Mandala came out and I've made some progress. 

Page 4

Tuesday night saw the end of page 4 of Old European Sampler.

I'm working on page 5 and hope to have it done in the next night or so.

Once that's done, I think I'm going to pull out Chatelaine's Polar Mandala for the weekend and a little color before the 100 day HAED challenge starts and I go to reds.

Almost a page finish

I almost finished page 4 last night.  I'm hoping tonight will see it done then I will start on page 5 so the next time I pick this sampler up, I will be starting the next row.

I think I've decided to take part in the 100 Days of HAED challenge on Facebook.  I'm planning on pulling Lust out and see how far I can get.

A page finish

Saturday night, I finished page 3 of Old European Sampler.  I really like how quickly this one stitches up because of the pattern repeats.

I would have made more progress but I got sidetracked into working on the bathroom in the basement.  The boys were outside weeding the garden in 90+ degrees so I'll take the basement.  I'm not fast and I'm very messy, but I do eventually

I'm planning on sanding in the next couple of nights so I can add the next coat of mud and make more progress.  But that takes away from my stitchy time so it may wait until next weekend.

A couple of projects

I worked on Sea Witch until I reached my limit on black for a couple of days.  

Then I pulled out Steve Rousseau's Old European Sampler that was a freebie at one time though Needleprint.  If anyone knows if this is still available anywhere, please let me know.  I have a friend who would like to stitch it.

Here's my progress over the weekend.  Not much, but there is progress.

Old European Sampler page finish

Last night I finished page 2 of Steve Rousseau's Old European Sampler.  I'm really enjoying this one with just the few colors it has and I think the conversion, especially the browns, work well together.

The Master has been using Jedi mind tricks and has made a reappearance.  I haven't worked on him at all this year and my goal is to finish the full page and partial page of this row.  Here's where I left him last year.

Old European Sampler update

After my finish of Santa's Sleigh I dug through my bag 'o WIPs and pulled out Old European Sampler.  Here's where I started last week.

And here is where I was last night.

I'm hoping for a page finish in the next couple of days.

Page finish and an OLD WIP

Friday, I finished page 1 of Old European Sampler.  I really like the colors in this with the pops of color in the browns.  

I moved the qsnaps and threaded my needle to start page 2 and lost interest in this for now so I tried The Forgotten by Charting Creations.  Zero progress on that one too.  So I dug around in my WIPs and found one of the two oldest WIPs I have.  I still need to dig the other one out.  I don't think it has very much left on it.

Anyway, Here is Mirabilia's Garden Verses when I pulled it out Friday.  I was using DMC metallic in this and hated it which may be why I haven't made a lot of progress in the last 10 years.  That and the fabric is not good.  I remember pulling it out since I had it and the chart would fit.  I'm going to stick it out though.

Friday night, I frogged the metallic and I've since restitched with PTB and made some nice progress on the left side.  I'm really looking forward to getting into some of the richer colors and away from the ecru and browns.

That may have worked

Starting Old European Sampler may be entertaining my stitchy bug.  I've made some great progress over the last week.

Hopefully that continues and I see a page finish soon.