Topic: Pick one of the WIP pieces you’ve stitched on this month, and tell us about your stitching journey with the piece.
Well, I have two BAPs that have been ongoing since 2013! The first (which I did NOT stitch on this month) is "Save the Stitches", a blackwork sampler design by Elizabeth Almond. I started this back in early February, 2014 and it is now nearly half completed It was last touched in early April, 2015:
The other, which I did stitch on this month, was the series of nine mandalas called "Roll Your Own", designed by Tracy Horner of InkCircles back in 2003.
Back in 2013, this was originally a SAL with one chart, "Roll Your Own", which meant each person coud choose their own private colorway *or* use one of the those provided by Tracy. This evolved in two directions. First, people sent ideas to Tracy about colorways, often with an inspiration photo, and she came up with the colors to be used. Second, Tracy, decided to issue more mandalas and create a series which we could opt to subscribe to or not. I opted to subscribe to this series and a second (which is a set of circular mandalas with astronomical/geographical terminology - I have them downloaded but not started).
I decided to use the "Tropical Ocean" colorway of 12 shades of blues and greens on a large piece of Silkweaver's "Iris Garden" 32ct Lugana and to stitch all 9 "Roll Your Own" mandalas on the same piece. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time!
Anyway, I finished the first of the mandalas, "Roll Your Own", February 21, 2014:
The second, ""Roll Your Own Reloaded" was done on June 2, 1014:
The third, "Bride of Roll Your Own", was completed by March 2, 2015 (clearly, other things got in the way and RYO was neglected for some time!):
Next up was "Spawn of Roll Your Own", three small mandalas, each named after one of the daughters in "The Brady Bunch". These were quicker to stitch, given how small they were but... I was finding deadlines harder and harder to meet in both the Crazy Quit Journal Projects and the Bead Journal Projects so these took priroity. Also, a cruise and a road trip interrupted my stitchery as did a long repeated bout with a sinus infection from late 2014 through summer of 2015. Basically, I didn't do a lot of cross stitching on anything during that tie period.
Anyway, the first of "Spawn" to be completed was "Marcia", March 29, 2015:
Then came "Jan", completed August 16, 2015:
And finally, last night, "CIndy":
This is how the mandalas look so far:
The three that are remaining are large mandalas like the first row, and will be arranged below the smaller ones in this order: "Revenge of Roll Your Own", "Rematch of Roll Your Own" and "Return of Roll Your Own". I will probably start with the outline for "Rematch", directly under "Marcia", so I can get the three placed properly (I'm no good at eyeballing placement so there will be a lot of counting and recounting and counting again before I put in that first black outline stitch.
I would love to have this done and framed for entry in the county fair next summer, but that entry deadline is likely to be late June 2016, and, given my track record on completing these mandalas, I seriously doubt that will be possible. Maybe summer 2017?
So this next full moon, my goals will be:
- September block for the Crazy Quilt Journal/ Bead Journal Projects (the block is assembled --- embellishment with stitchery and beads is all (yeah, all! ) that is required
- Start on "Rematch of Roll Your Own" trying to get at least the outline completed and placement of "Revenge and "return" established.
And if time is good to me, maybe pull out "Save the Stitches" and get a few more blocks filled on that one!
And when these two BAPs are finished, I think I will try some color combinations OTHER Than blue and green!
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