Seconds

The second garden piece is done. I think it'll look really good with the special stitches in it. Now on to the third part. I like that I'm making progress on this, and I think the second one went a -lot- faster than the first. Onward, ho!

Tying off the Columns

Most of the work for this band is now done. It will be finished week after next. The next band is fairly wide, too, but I don't know how quickly it will get done. I like the colors on this and my husband loves the way it looks, so he'll have a good time framing it. The background looks a lot better in person than in this picture, bu the way. It's not all grayed out.

Swimming Along

Added blue and more orange to the picture. I'm just over halfway done, and I think the seahorse looks cute. I don't know what I'll do with it. I owe two more stitched pieces to a friend to make purses for her daughters. This might be good for that.

Yay! I got a second color done on the third corner AND started the fourth. I feel like I'm making progress and will be finished with the third corner hopefully just after the end of the month.

Adding to the Flag

More blue and more white on the flag. It's, as of today, my daily project. It'll definitely be going faster now. I hope to get it done before I go on my trip, but I don't know. It's a -lot- of work.

All Tied Up

Yesterday, I looked at this piece and thought, "I can finish it tomorrow if I work on it exclusively." So I did just that, and instead of finishing it today, I finished it last night. We were going to put the years (they've been married 50 in April), but when we put it up in the mats, there just wasn't room for them below the names. I hope the in-laws like this. It's not my best stitching because well - I wasn't emotionally engaged in the project. Nothing new to learn, nothing exciting to do in it.

Bars and Swirls

The ribbon floss in the background of the music bars kept shredding as I used it. Even with very short lengths of about twelve inches, a full third of it shredded. Not my favorite floss. More whipped outline stitch with the swirls. I'll be filling them in during this week. For some reason, I thought this would go faster. I'm also still not at all pleased with the directions.