Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Still no K

Plugging away at this; almost halfway done with the name. The design sheet is huge, so it's funny to see the actual stitching so much smaller than it. That said, it looks like a much bigger project than it is.

Monday, August 04, 2008

Stuck on Blue


Instead of working part three's specialty stitches, I decided to finish up part two first. It's -all- blue. I've got almost all of the second corner done and added a rectangle and a half to the bottom part. I'll get there. These corners aren't very big.

Sunday, August 03, 2008

Roping It In


I'm almost done with the seventh band now; as you can see, it's much smaller than the previous band (thankfully!). I think the perle I'm using is a bit thick, but it's coming along all right.

Group Start


This isn't in my rotation at the moment officially, but it's a project my face to face EGA chapter is doing. There are several kinds of crossed stitches and it's somewhat patriotic. It's also small, so it should be a quick stitch. What I did here was done in two hours during the meeting a couple of weeks ago. I hope to finish off these stripes before the next meeting a week from Monday.

Friday, August 01, 2008

Part Five Well Begun



Part five is mainly these two scrollwork bits. They have some backstitching and a couple of cross stitching inside, so they should go easily and quickly. I hope so!

Not My Best Work


I made two mistakes on the border early on and didn't realize them until I was nearly done, so they stuck. This is my May ornament for my ornament a month - yes, I'm very behind. I'll be keeping it, since it has those flaws. Otherwise, I like it. This also counts as the second finish in my project challenge. I'm adding Poirot, one of Jim Wurth's dodecagon series, into the rotation as this one's gone. It's an ornament too, so it'll be July's. From what I understand, the dodecagon ones work up fairly quickly... we'll see.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Steampunk Block


This needs to be mailed out by tomorrow and I finished it last night. It's the most complicated block I've ever pieced. The theme for the round robin is "my favorite things" so I went for steampunk. It's a bit more organic looking than I'd want, but it does do the whole complicated bit fairly well. Now to see if any of the other people working on the block even know what steampunk is...