This month's discussion topic is: "What is your comfort zone regarding the number of projects to have kitted and in progress at any one time?" Right now, I have three pieces in progress. I'm not counting two mostly finished pieces which require extensive beading. Since June of this year, I had four pieces going at once, rotating daily but that was getting to me as they were all SALs and I was/am behind in all of them. I was having real issues in actually stitching any of the four! So in the last week, I have reverted to working on each piece three days in a row. That meant I actually finished one piece and am caught up on another. Three projects at once is my absolute max, but, of late, I am thinking two would be much more comfortable. ~~~~~WIPs~~~~~ What I stitched on in August: 1. Fox & Rabbit's Patreon "Temperature Chart" for the year 2023. Stitched on 28 ct. "Star Sapphire" Gobelin (although it looks more pale green than "sapphire" to me) using DMC floss. I'm stitching the day's low on the left side of the hearts and the high on the right side. All temperatures are based on the recorded highs and lows from an online "past weather" temperature chart for near-by Bowling Green, Ohio (we don't have a reliable outdoor temperature thermometer for our home so I'm assuming same ZIP code, similar temperature, although that isn't totally accurate). I am pretty much keeping up with the days, waiting until I have roughly five days of temperatures charted to stitch each session. I spend the rest of the time on the border and the hangers. (the picture below shows temperatures, sans hangers, through August 24):  2. Fox & Rabbit Mystery SAL for 2023, "Royal Gardens". Stitching on 32ct Lugana "pale green" (this isn't an accurate color in this photo) using Threadworx Overdyed Floss 1048 "Woodland Green" throughout. I am pleased with the slight variation in the green thread so I've decided to not mess with additional colors. I have finished the January installment (sans border outlines and two areas of backstitching) with two major stitching errors that I will have to fudge around (because I didn't notice them until several rows of stitching and was NOT going to frog weeks wort of work to "fix" ). I have started on the borders, part of which were in the January pattern and part in the March pattern. Since I have so much of the pattern in hand (February through August, with September due this coming week) , I am planning on setting the borders on each side and then trying to finished the stitching in the center of the pattern, from left to right, top to bottom. I hope that this approach will result in better progress.  3. Stitchonomy SAL for 2023 "Kingdom's of Life". I'm a member of the pattern club so I receive installments "early" and can't post progress on any installment until the general stitching community gets their installments. I am significantly behind on this one because I am editing colors on the fly and that slows me down a lot. All I have finished so far (the frame, the bacteria and the plants) are shown below. I have all the installments in hand now and I want to do some editing on two before I proceed. No progress this month.  ~~~~~ !!!!! A Completion !!!!! Lakeside Needlecraft "Happiness is Handmade" SAL, designed by Durene Jones. Stitched with the recommended DMC floss on a wide (very slippery) Aida band.  I need to find a hanger for this and decide how to FFO the back. ~~~~~Incoming~~~~~ There is a Stitchonomy Halloween SAL coming soon. I have purchased the kit and I expect it to arrive any week now. I hope to complete the current Stitchonomy SAL ("Kingdoms of Life") before its arrival so that I can be more productive in the future weeks! ~~~~~ That sums up my August stitchery progress. As in my July report, progress was interfered with by craft-space (it's not really a room. but half a basement space) reorganization. This reorganization has expanded from paper crafting areas into the stitching/quilting areas of my craft space and is certain to be an ongoing issue (my floss storage is a disaster!) As usual, I say I hope to do better in future but we shall see... |
