Round Robin Switch Time

Just a few days after finishing my heart up this week, I got Muriel's Provence Round Robin in the mail yesterday. I like the way mine turned out. Muriel has some very strict rules on her stuff - a list of ten colors we can use, a size restriction and a placement restriction. I'm not putting any restrictions on mine outside of it being an "Abecedaire" (alphabet). Other than that, whatever they want. I'm sending it to Yveline tomorrow. For those interested, it took Muriel's three days to get from Martinique to here. Now to figure out a motif. Summer in Provence - a sunburst, maybe?

Bargello and Buttonholes Progress

This is coming along ... once I finish a couple of the other things, it should go faster. I finished the rest of the green circles yesterday and should be able to get the insides of the circles started by tomorrow.

Round Robin Getting There

I made a lot of progress on the French round robin this last week. Since this picture was taken, I've completed two more letters. I need to get it done by the end of the week, so I'll be taking it with me on my trips to places so I can work on it as I wait for other people to do their jobs. I think I can finish it ... the rest of the letters are either small or medium sized.

Women's Shelter Ornament

One of the reasons not much was done on other pieces last week was that I had an ornament due for the tree my EGA chapter does for the local women's shelter. The design comes from the latest issue of New Stitches, and it took me a couple of days to do it on white 18 count aida. Our chapter made over eighty ornaments for the tree and donated them, some lights, and a six foot fake tree. We don't know where it will be, exactly, but we all hope it brings some cheer to their lives.

The Chatelaines

As you can see, not much progress has been made on either of these in the last week. Every time I think my days are going to get less complicated, something else gets thrown into the mix to make them too busy to stitch again. There was SOME progress, though. I now have two of the corners on the Medieval Town Mandala done and the arches on the Midi mystery are coming along. Maybe Thanksgiving week I'll get time ... after all, everything else is closed and I hate shopping, right?

Elegant Diamond Nears Completion

I completed the side Rhodes stitches on this this week and got the little silver accents done. In fact, when this picture was taken, all that was needed was two woven spiderweb stitches and some backstitch and whipped backstitch. I managed to do all of that at the Pocono Mountain EGA meeting last night, so it's done! The green of the fabric doesn't show through well, but the overall effect is very very green. I'll probably do more of these -they're relatively fast. The finished photo will be up as part of next week's updates. I'm just happy to get something done off my list - which means I added back in the Ribbons and Roses purse that got bumped off.

Fabrics I Dyed

Yesterday, I dyed five yards of fabric for a friend to use in a project. These are pictures of the results. I really like the green and purple - it reminds me of a field of morning glories. I will probably reproduce that one for a complex cloth wall hanging. The dark blue "fake shibori" came out pretty well, too. Actually, all of them did, with the exception of the green spots that migrated onto the orange piece somehow. I'll probably dye some more later, but I thought you might want to see something different! All fabrics were 100% Kona cotton and dyes were Procion.