January Heart

Every year in January, my local EGA chapter (Pocono Mountain) does a heart project. This year was no different, and I had signed up and paid for it before I found out about the 10 project challenge so... i ended up starting it Monday night. It's sideways. Don't blame my husband, I didn't tell him which side was up! The light pink is the widest point of the heart, so it should be a quick finish. It's just a really simple cross stitch piece.

Progress on Needlepoint

I'm very happy to say I can see real progress on both of these. The bargello has all the outer borders done except for the last two sides of the elongated cross stitch on the very rim. On the auction piece, the flower box is almost done. I'll be doing more French knots today on the flowers. It gives a lot more dimensionality to the picture. Maybe by the end of the week I'll be filling in background on that rectangle.

Goldwork Gets Going

This is making more progress this week - I got the whole petal done with the woven couching. Now I just have to plunge the rest down on that. I'll probably get to that today or tomorrow. Then laying down a lot of paillettes! It's beginning to take shape. I'm hoping to finish this off by the end of the month.

First Finish of the New Year

When I went out to pick up lunch, I mailed this one back to France. It's Laurence H.'s piece for the round robin. Surprisingly, I haven't received anything from Muriel yet. Maybe she's doing a lot? Anyway, I'm kind of happy with my L and I hope she likes it! Now to get something else done this year. And this counts as one of my ten projects for my challenge.

Ribbons and Roses Update

I didn't post a picture of this last week because I got absolutely none of it done. It's really hard to do a beading project on the road. So... this is a picture as of Sunday afternoon. I got the third row of fly stitch started and the strap is now almost a third of the way done at thirteen inches. Maybe I'll have it done in time for next Christmas.

French Round Robin

I have one more week to have this L done and in the mail. I think I'll make it - at least, my goal is to mail this out on Saturday before the mail holiday and before I have company over again. I got more done after this picture on yesterday - I only have the very bottom part to go. Will post a picture of the finished one when it's ready.

Auction Piece, Again

Still working on that top left corner rectangle, but I'm -almost- done with it. I worked on it some more this afternoon and have about 100 stitches to put in it. Then I can go on to the geraniums!