Back to Basics and Learn a New Technique, Week Thirty-nine

Not a lot of progress. Lost my stitching mojo for a bit...

September Bead Journal Project

I'm calling it "September Song".  The month of September started out with the Black Swamp Art Festival (which we never made it to, by the way) and ends with my birthday. In between, the weather changed and the leaves started to change.

A salamander wrapped about a paint brush is the Black Swamp Art Festival logo. And it looked to me like a treble clef.  So...

My version of a logo/treble clef on a staff with four notes which just HAPPEN to be the notes for the word "September" in the song, "September Song". Use buttons for the notes and throw in a few leaves for color and you have my September journal page!

Back to Basics and Learn a New Technique, Week Thirty-eight

I really stalled out on Witches Wheel... I KNOW there is at least one, maybe two counting errors in this because spacing is off on both Witch's heads. But I can't find the error and ripping out on this fabric is disastrous --- it makes the fabric look "holey". SO... How to fudge around an error one can't find when the piece is supposed to be symmetrical and a mirror image?

Back to Basics and Learn a New Technique, Week Thirty-seven

The Witches Wheel, a Glendon Place chart, design by Cheryl A. Granda. I'm stitching it in black DMC floss on Colorscapes hand-dyed 32ct Bellfast Linen ("Solar"). It will eventually be heavily beaded in five different colors of Mill Hill seed beads!

Already I have two counting errors and I can't FIND them. this fabric doesn't take well to frogging (you can see a little grid of enlarged holes where the stitches were) so I'm going to have to come up with a work-around... kind of hard when I can't find the error!

Back to Basics and Learn a New Technique, Week Thirty-six

and "Sebastian Cat with Roses" is now finished as well...

So should I do "Witches Wheel" or September Bead Journal Project or... 

As Scarlett said, "Tomorrow is another day.." I have quilt guild tonight so won't get any stitching done anyway!

Thomas joins "Jasper" and "Sebastion"

and he sits on a pillow, with a rose in his somewhat prehensile tail!!! Next Up, Sebastian again, this time with a whole bouquet of roses! 

Oh, and my fabric came for "Witches Wheel"! I'm dying to start that!

Back to Basics and Learn a New Technique, Week Thirty-five

"Thomas Cat on Pillow", designer Mariyn Robertson, kitted by Design Works Crafts, Inc: