6/10/22

 Star Spangled Banner from Northern Expressions Needlework is done!

6/1/22

 Sadly, Star Spangled Banner is not finished.  I am however getting really close.  I'm working on the final stripe!

In the middle of the white stripe, I took a short break and started Little Red Barn by Little House Needleworks, and finished it a few days later.

Then I moved down to the next block,  Dairy Darlin' and got it started.

At this point Star Spangled Banner came back out and I finished the last white stripe and got started on the red.  Fingers crossed, I can finish this week.

5/20/22

 Last night, I finished page 8 of Warrior Alice which met my 2022 goal for her.

Then Star Spangled Banner came out.  I put it away last year because the end of first part of the next stripe didn't match up to the end of the previous stripe.

Last night I found where I got off and frogged it.

I'm hoping to finish this by Memorial Day.

12/26/21

 I picked Star Spangled Banner back up with the hope of finishing it this year.

Obviously, that isn't happening.  I'm on a pretty good roll right now so I'm hoping for an early 2022 finish.

9/23/19

I finished three stripes of Star Spangled Banner this week.  For some reason this one is super slow going for me.  It took all day yesterday to finish stripe 6.  But I love the result!  One more new band then they repeat.

Once I put Star Spangled Banner away, Blue Moroccan Lace came out.  I haven't worked on a Chatelaine for a while and it was time.  Here was my progress last night.

I'm still happy with my fabric choice even though it was way different than my normal choices.

Page finish!

And another 2019 goal met!

He Came With the Rain from Unconventional X Stitch

Then I pulled out SS Daybreak from HAED and put in a couple hundred stitches.  I had no intention of a page finish, I just wanted to add a few stitches instead of just letting it sit in my WIP basket without any attention this year.

Not a huge difference, but better than nothing.

Star Spangled Banner was next up.  I don't have an after picture, but I was working on the white stripe I started last time it was out.  I discovered my stitches were a thread off so all of that stripe came out and I started over.

Decisions...

Since Photobucket is being a pain and wants to charge a lot of money to be able to use their photo sharing ability with blogger, I need to look for a new photo hosting service.  Does anyone have any suggestions?

Anyway,  I finally made it to the end of the row I was working on in Heritage Sampler.

At that point, I needed a change  of scenery so I pulled out Star Spangled Banner from Northern Expressions Needlework.  I finished the stripe I had been working on last time it was out and started the next white stripe.  I was having problems with stitch placement so I started the next red stripe.  At that point, I decided I'd had enough of all specialty stitches.

Yesterday, I'd also worked on finishing kitting up Chatelaine's Blue Moroccan Lace Mandala.

Here's what I've got.  My helper approved!

I hope to get a start on this tonight but there's baseball, so maybe.

Tiny little jessica stitches!

I've still be working on Star Spangled Banner by Northern Expressions Needlework this week and have finished the first two strips.  I've been working on stripe 3 and decided I need a break from it.  Those jessica stitches are tiny on 40 ct fabric!

I pulled Warrior Alice from Eclectic Bloke Designs out and wasn't really feeling it.

When the boys went to bed, I went through some of my other WIPs and brought The Loneliness of Autumn by Love Thy Thread back upstairs with me.  This one, with all the confetti worked for me last night.

Heritage Sampler

I finally managed to finish the personalization in the second band of Heritage Sampler.  Don't look too close though since one of those vertical bands is not centered but it is NOT coming back out!

Towards the end of the second vertical band, I was switching back and forth with Star Spangled Banner's blue to get that done too.  Sunday, I had the blue and the stars done.  The stars were so much quicker than the blue.

I also managed to start the first red stripe.  There are 37 jessica stitches to the end of this stripe and twice that of rhodes stitches since there is one above and below each jessica.

I want to get this stripe done in the next couple of days before I rotate to something else.  I have goals yet to be met!

Here mojo!

Last week left a lot to be desired in my stitching progress.  I don't know if I just got bored with blue or just busy and tired.  This is my progress on Star Spangled Banner as of Thursday last week.

I didn't pick anything up Friday or Saturday though I did go through my WIPs to see if anything would grab my attention.  The result was Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler and my kitted Hawaii came upstairs with me.  I went through my kit and found that I had chosen to replace the heart Martina used in her design with a cosmic ring.  I also have changed whatever was in the turtles in part 12 to black pearls.  I think someone did this when this was still a class and I liked the look.

Sunday afternoon, I finally got a chance to sit down and stitch and made good progress on this band.  I got the leaves done and started on the jessica berries.  Tonight is the only night I have this week there isn't something going on so I plan to take advantage of it and hopefully get a bunch of berries done.  Then, they still need to be outlined.

Star Spangled Banner

Last week was busy with baseball practice, games and working the concession stand so I didn't get as much progress as I would have liked on Star Spangled Banner by Northern Expressions but I still did ok.  I've finished ALL of the cross stitch and the satin stitches around the field and I started waffle stitches and jessica stitches last night.

So far so good!

Warrior Alice, Lust and a new start

Since this weekend was three days for Memorial Day, I was hoping I would get more accomplished.  Sadly, it was a great deal like other weekends.  

I did finally finish page 2 of Warrior Alice by Eclectic Bloke Designs

And Lust is back out on one set of q-snaps and made a little progress.

But since Monday was Memorial Day, I thought a patriotic chart was in order.  This is Star Spangled Banner by Northern Expressions Needlework (chart can be found here)

I did a stash dive late last week and found this piece of fabric from Mo's Sale.  I'ts a blue and grey mottled 28 ct Monaco.  Floss is Rubbed Red, Ex. White Chocolate and Zaffre Cobalt from Hand-Dyed Fibers, now out of business.

I discovered once I started stitching that I didn't like the coverage of the 28 ct.  So I went back to my stash and found a piece of 40 ct Cauldron from Picture This Plus.  I liked the coverage, the floss toss still works for me and the bead fit into the jessica stitch on the right side of my test stitching.

This is as far as I got last night, but I did start!