New Start - ANG Auction Piece

I volunteered to stitch a piece for the ANG auction during seminar next year. This is what they sent me. I got a really good deal on a lot of Sheep's Silk from Thread Gatherer on ebay, so I'm using it to stitch the piece. As you can see, I barely started it before Timothy took the picture. It's due back to the coordinator by March first. I'll be putting some specialty stitches in it, but I have to figure out where looks best. I've already gotten all the green done in the upper left square and about half of the green done in the upper right.

Goldwork Practice and Stem

I managed to do the dimensional couching on the practice sampler, but have decided I'm going to trim all those ends instead of plunge them. The privileges of it being a practice piece. On the other hand, I've started couching the stems on the main piece. As of this afternoon, the gold twist is lined with copper and copper also is on the biggest curlicue on the lower left. The last bit of the stems and curlicues will have the gold and copper twist on it and I'll get to it this week and then plunge all the ends as they say to. I'm finding that when I actually do stitching on this, it goes really quickly.

Elegant Diamond Finished

Here's the diamond done stitching. My husband finally managed to get the green background fabric green. He's still working on how to get white fabric white. Anyway, I really like this design and will probably make a few more. They go quickly once the center diamond is done. Pictures of this will be taken again once it's mounted on its box.

Plugging Away on the Chatelaines

Well, I got more done on both of these, though it's hard to see much progress. I'm halfway done with the third corner on the Medieval Town Mandala and the arch is still being filled in on the Midi Mystery. I still didn't get much stitching time this week outside of when I was waiting at other places - which means I couldn't work on these. They're not as easily transported as some other things. This coming week, though, is a holiday week and we have no visitors coming in sooooo.... maybe.... I can get some more done on them. I'm feeling bad about their slow progress.

Round Robin Switch Time

Just a few days after finishing my heart up this week, I got Muriel's Provence Round Robin in the mail yesterday. I like the way mine turned out. Muriel has some very strict rules on her stuff - a list of ten colors we can use, a size restriction and a placement restriction. I'm not putting any restrictions on mine outside of it being an "Abecedaire" (alphabet). Other than that, whatever they want. I'm sending it to Yveline tomorrow. For those interested, it took Muriel's three days to get from Martinique to here. Now to figure out a motif. Summer in Provence - a sunburst, maybe?

Bargello and Buttonholes Progress

This is coming along ... once I finish a couple of the other things, it should go faster. I finished the rest of the green circles yesterday and should be able to get the insides of the circles started by tomorrow.

Round Robin Getting There

I made a lot of progress on the French round robin this last week. Since this picture was taken, I've completed two more letters. I need to get it done by the end of the week, so I'll be taking it with me on my trips to places so I can work on it as I wait for other people to do their jobs. I think I can finish it ... the rest of the letters are either small or medium sized.