WIP myself into shape, Week 43

Clearly, I missed week 42 and I have to admit I only put in a few hours stitchery while cruising, even though I carried my project along with me!

Sewing with Mama! is exactly where it was in Week 41:



I got two borders of spots (turned the corner on the right and nearly finished the one of the left) done on Palm Tree Elegance:



and two little patches of black floss in a Stitch & Zip eyeglass case that the needlework class on board gave away (it looks a little strange because the floss is stuffed inside the case right now):


I have a "bonus" bargello club piece yet to be kitted up and I fear that there is one in the mail as well...

October BJP hasn't been started and November is almost here!

And I have a Christmas gift I simply HAVE to start!

Is it time to panic yet?

Way to early for week 41 but...

Here is where Sewing With Mama will sit while we are on holiday...



Switching over to needlepoint now!

WIP myself into shape, Week 40

"Sewing With Mama!" It's progressing, slowly... If you squint, you can almost tell that that is a sewing cabinet with an open drawer on the right...

Of course, I'd be a lot further along if I didn't keep diverting to bargello!

Part two of October's Bargello Club

Ms. Perry named it "Daffodil Box" because she was going to use it in a box lid, and her example was one motif deeper and three wider than mine. I cut it down to fit the one piece of 18ct canvas I had left...


Shopping my thread stash again, I used Carrie's Creation "Jade Tree" for the green outlines and six shades each of DMC yellow ( 307, 444, 445, 726, 727, 728) and DMC orange ( 352, 352, 353, 720, 721, 722) as well as DMC white to create the daffodils!

She referenced one more "abstract" bargello pattern in her instructions so I'm off to find that one and print it and kit it out... Ooops --- maybe not! The printer, the marvelous wireless printer that replaced my dodgy cabled one, is NOT connecting! It will not print! Have no clue why! And of course, no more cabled printer so... it's either email the instructions to DH and have him print them or wait and see if he can fix it... AAARGH! A few hours later --- had to reload the software, FOUR times and finally gave up and set it up from the printer itself. Of course, it still is giving me an error message (COmmunication Error? What the?) but it finally printed. At least for now, I can print but this is NOT my idea of cool!

A completion for October Bargello Club...

It's part one of a two part piece, and is called Moghul Spires ornament. As usual, I shopped my stash for threads and used all DMC this time: 550, 552, 553, 554 and for the hanger, 169.

The second part of the October installment is called Daffodil and I've kitted it up, but it sill take a little longer, I think, since it's a little more complex.