Brown, Again

It seems a few of my projects are stuck in brown phases - this and Lady especially. At least they're different shades of brown. This week I made significant brown progress! The buildings on the left are almost all done and next time I stitch on this, I get to use a non-brown color. Progress, indeed!

A Pool of Brown

There's more of a pool of skirt under the flag now. It's not much, but it's growing.

Eighth Part Done

I finished part eight, as I told you earlier, on Saturday. When Susanne sent me the pattern for part nine, she also sent me a correction for part four (the round flower on the lower left). There is green around it. Should I stitch the green around it, too? Also, Tam wrote me and said this pattern is now for sale! You can find it here. I really want to thank Tam and the Marquoir moderators for giving the group this pattern.

Twin Darts Temari

Barb Suess in her book calls this pattern "Twin Darts". I made it in just over an evening from a ball I'd already wrapped. It will be going to Kosovo at the end of the week with other things for gifts. I think I did a pretty good job with it.

The design is pretty basic, but I did a better job at executing it than I have with other patterns in the past. Maybe my technique is improving.

More in the Middle

The compass rose is coming along. I have two of the interior points done now, and I will be putting the E and W in next. I guess that means I'm nearly halfway done.

Round Robin Underwater

This block is from the Whatever Goes round robin, and I sent it out yesterday. The block itself is huge - at least twenty inches in each direction. This top picture is how I received it.

And this picture shows the overall block after my work.

Here is a close up of my crab.

And this shows the treasure chest and seam treatment I did.

As you can tell, the theme was the sea - both real and fantastical. I'm currently down to two round robins in my possession. Yay, catching up.

A Line of Hearts

And a flower too! I'm most of the way done with part eight in this picture taken on Thursday evening. I finished the part on Saturday. A later post will show it.