Auction Piece, Almost Done

Sometimes you get sick of a piece before you finish it. I've been feeling that way about this piece for a while now - it's not anything near what I would normally pick for myself to do and not even the subject matter interested me. So I made a big push to finish it last week and didn't -quite- do it. I should finish it tonight, if everything goes as planned. I hope. It's due to be mailed by March first. That's the latest it can be out of my hair. I've neglected a lot of other stuff over the past five days to work on this and also have had a lot of extra family stuff happening, so I haven't stitched on other projects as much as I wanted to, which just makes me grumpier. I NEED to finish this tonight ... wish me luck.

Silk and Metal GCC Start

Even though I've had this for almost six months, I hadn't been able to start it because I wanted to finish the other goldwork first. Well, as you know, I finished it week before last and so it's time for this! I've got the fabric marked and onto stretcher bars, but haven't done anything else with it yet. Today or tomorrow, I'll actually start stitching. I'm looking forward to it.

Rose Round Robin Started

You can see where I decided to place my two roses now. They'll be more horizontal and underline the rest of the piece. Since this picture was taken, I've started on the roses themselves and not just the leaves. I really like this idea ... then, I've liked all the ideas for these round robins. Each one is so unique and will be treasured when it's done.

Ribbons and More Roses

Well, I'm officially halfway done on the strap now and I did manage to get the beads and finish the feather stitches on the ribbons (thank you Deanna!). Now comes the construction. I've started stitching around the edges - decided I didn't want to use a machine with all the beading, so I'm doing it by hand. As of today, I'm about halfway done with that. It's coming along, at least ... slowly I make progress, but I do get things done!

Mini Mandala

Probably next week I'm just going to sit down and finish this. It's getting on my nerves that it's taken so long. I've got almost all the cross stitching done and have a lot of the Rhodes stitches done. There's a lot of backstitching in the middles of the quadrants for fountains that I need to do, and the gates, but I think I can finish it off in one day if I don't work on anything else. That'll be a goal for next week... and another project crossed off my list.

Medieval and Midi

On one, not as much progress as I had hoped - on the other, light at the end of the arch. I'm still backstitching on the fourth part of the Medieval Town Mandala. I hadn't realized there was a black line at the bottom of the flowers all the way around. It's almost done now - though I just started it in this picture. On the Midi Mystery, I have three out of four curves of the arches done! Maybe I can get to something new this week. I actually finished two out of three colors on the fourth curve on Sunday, so... there's hope. I'm sooo sick of them.

Auction Piece ...

I now have four of the six rectangles around the center completely done, and since this picture, have finished the vegetable cart with the exception of the red outline and the white background - which I'm working on. Hopefully, I'll have this done in time! Only 17 more days to get it done.