Knotted Up

I finished the major knot outline this week and started adding some bling. You can see, now that it's all done, the piebald effect of stitching the way the instructions said. It looks like individual tiles instead of a continuous line. I hope that's what the designer was going for.

Angling Along

I took this piece to my EGA meeting on Monday and got some extra done on it. The double cross stitches are all worked in the same color of Watercolours, but since the instructions say to skip every other and fill in on the second pass, you get a kind of piebald effect to it. That's emphasized by the way the stitches are made - the top stitch changes by placement within the design. I'm not sure yet that I like it this way.

Boring-Looking Start

Camelot, the second of the dodecagon ornaments by Jim Wurth I've started, looks boring now with its gray canvas and gray outline. There's going to be a lot of pink in the middle soon, though. In the meantime, it's a start.

Poirot Done

I finished the first of the dodecagon ornaments on the last day of January. I'm still shocked by how many finishes I've done so far this year. The design was a fun stitch and the instructions are very clear. I'll be finishing it up into an ornament. Since finishing this, I've started on my second ornament, which is very pink. It's called Camelot.

Almost Done

Lots more circles this week, and some more stripes. This picture was taken Saturday morning. I finished it late Saturday afternoon. Picture to follow, and it made my ninth finish in January. I'm shocked by how much I've gotten done.

Stripy Progress on Poirot

Since I started working on it daily, Poirot's progress has significantly increased. Odd correlation, that, yes? I hope to finish this by the end of the week, and I might actually make it. Still love the colors.

The Wheels on the Ornament

go round and round, round and round... yep more Jessica. This time it's the big dark one. I finished Midnight Garden last night, so this piece is the next on my accelerated stitching list. I'm halfway done now and I just need to finish it. Considering that it's so small, if I work a little on it every day, I should have it done in a couple of weeks. The counting can be frustrating sometimes, but I do like the look of it.

Guess Who? Jessica

Yes, even more Jessicas this week. I told you there were more coming. Once you get the beginning done, they go quickly at least - especially the big ones.

Circles in a Line

This week I started the first of a whole bunch of Jessica stitches. The two lines didn't take long to do, and they have smyrna stitches in their centers. A lot of what's left is little Jessica stitches, so it'll look like I'm making comparatively less progress than I have been recently for a while.

Triangular Additions

The pieces of this I've been doing lately are big, so it looks like I've made a lot of progress. I added a second pipe and three triangles. The next bits are going to look like less done because they're all small Jessicas.

Weaving a Diamond

This week's progress is really visible because it's a big woven diamond in the middle of the piece. The directions were a little weird, but I managed to follow thme and make it. It looks all glitzy in person.

Adding Tiny Sparkles

This week, I added sparkling crosses inside the van Dyke stitches. I like how it's turning out, though I feel I'm going sooo slowly. I've been feeling that about a lot of my projects lately. Maybe I'll finish one this week. I hope so. Another one done would make me feel better.

A Christmas Finish

I started this one day and finished it the next. It was the October program at my face to face EGA chapter. the fluffy stitch is called rya, and it looks like it could be successfully substituted for turkeywork in some situations (ie, when you need directional pile. I think it came out kind of cute. It also counts as number 13 on my project challenge and my July ornament for my ornament a month. A quickie threefer!

It's not a Goatee

It's a Van Dyke. At least, that's what Jim Wurth calls the stitch I used to fill in the two horizontal bars. I really need to catch up on my stitching and get things done. This project would be so quick and simple if I did them one at a time. Maybe my resolution for next year will be to cut down on the multi-tasking.

Finally, a Post!

Okay, so my surgery knocked me for more of a loop than I thought and I should have pre-written some posts. I'm much much better now and ready to start stitching again! This picture was taken before the stitching and is of Poirot. I got some of the ribbon outlines done on it before I put it aside for the holiday and surgery. I'll have Texas Ren Faire and Ellington Field pictures up in the next few posts, so you now know where I went. It was a great way to avoid the anxiety pre-op buildup. I like how this is coming along and hope to finish it before Christmas (yes, I can hear you laughing now).

Waterfall

The string art stitches in this section remind me of a waterfall. The instructions for putting the stitches next to each other could have been clearer, but I figured it out. I think. Anyway,this part is done and it's time to start another. It's coming together - slowly as usual, but progress is being made.

Car Stitching

Last week when my husband was driving, I managed to do -some- stitching in the car. On top of working on an afghan, I did more of the four way continental stitches on Poirot. Never truly easy because of the rayon, I did have to stop stitching on some bumpy areas of the road. At least I got something progressed on the way to Seminar.

Four Sided Continental

I'm working with slippery rayon again; this time it's with four sided continental stitch. It's going really slowly and doesn't look like I'm even making much of an impression because it's only one strand. Anyway, it's taking a looot longer than the string art it's falling down from. Of course, not much on anything's going to be done this week. I leave for Louisville and the EGA seminar early in the morning. I'll be blogging from there and show some new things, but my old stuff will languish some.

Twelve Sides

So Poirot has twelve sides now, even if four of them are really short. That whitish line is all smyrna crosses. I'll be doing string art in the middle next and see how it goes.