Over Halfway There

Two full sides done on the specialty stitches and only two more to go, both of which partially done. This part would be done now except for the interstitial work on the crazy quilt blocks and now the push on the English Sampler. Well, that and being in the car for long car trips. I've had a busy couple of weeks. It'll get there.

More Flag

This week's work was mainly on the flag. It's coming along pretty well but will be slowing down next week because I'll be at EGA seminar and stitching other projects.

Another Round Robin Out the Door

I spent all of yesterday evening doing my work on Kerry's block. I'd gotten it late due to the post office taking nearly a month, so it's already late for its mailing. This round robin requires us to use a certain stitch for a seam treatment every month. This month was herringbone, with an optional lazy daisy. I did one of each. The seam on the left is the herringbone and the one on the right is the lazy daisy. I hope she likes it.

Up to H

Well, you can see I'm through the middle of H now. It's getting there, though, and I'll be doing more work on it this week. It's still going to be a fairly quick (for me) stitch.

Going Out in the Morning

I finished up my work on Ann K's block for the my favorite things round robin. I must say that the huuuuuuge light green solid piece intimidated me, so I didn't do it. I just never, ever have pieces that large on my blocks and I prefer smaller ones. Anyway, I did the next biggest block, the light blue, and covered it with flowers and bugs. Then I did the seam next to it in a kind of different way. Decided I should put something traditional on it, so I beaded the seam in the bottom left corner with golden bugle and seed beads. You can see a better detail of the weird seam and flower block below.

Ladders Done

The ladders on each side are done now; I'm not sure if they're supposed to be vines or leaves or what. There are leaves in mosaic stitch coming in off them. I started them yesterday and really wasn't pleased with the look. I might go ahead and frog that then just cross stitch them. Will decide later this morning.

Starting the Huge Center Medallion

This medallion in the center is really, really big. I started it this week with a little bit of string art. I need to move faster on this because it's so close to finishing, but other things have higher priority. I'll get to it. Anyway, so far this medallion's gone okay. Only one counting mistake that I caught early. Wish me luck!