Back to Basics and Learn a New Technique, Week Three

A quaker Christmas met "the frog" this last week. I think I ripped out as much as I stitched so I didn't quite finish the Balsam Fir motifs (you can see the last motif in the bottom left that still needs it's interior stitched. The it's on to the red (Cupid) letters and numbers and thd gold (Old Gold) stars and angel.

I ordered some fabric to go with my Unstarted Quilt Project pice for the guild. I went with yardage of solids: brown, beige and two shades of blue --- this many since I ordered online and am not sure how they will work with my half-yard lengths. So while I will stitch from stash, i will have actually increased my stash by several yards. That's OK, though, as one of the choices will probably work as the backing.

The other Black Swamp Quilter's Challenge was Row of the Month. I "shopped my stash" and found these fabrics which I had purchased when living in Saudi. I clearly liked them as I have YARDS of each of the patterned fabrics and I bought it in two colorways: Forest green on the left; deep red on the right with the yellow fabric in the front matching the red colorway. And I lucked out in that I have green, red and yellow "solids" that actually "go"!

Work from Stash and One BAP for 2009, Week Sixteen!

Progress on page five --- the fish is done and there is only splashing water left. Various shades of gray to fill in...

Work from Stash and One BAP for 2009, Week Fifteen!

Finally, page four of the six pages of charts is done and all of the fish is done. Only water to go: the hardest part with all those scattered stitches.

Work from Stash and One BAP for 2009, Week Fourteen!

I blew off stitching ALL last week so if this progress picture doesn't look much further on that week Thirteen, it's not. With on Monday working on the white foam, it has filled in a little and I found the errors I had made last week, but otherwise...

Work From Stash and One BAP for 2009, Week Thirteen

What can I say? Three errors in counting: one off in each case --- all fudge-able but still frustrating. It's so hard to do those scattered stitches on black!

Work From Stash and One BAP for 2009, Week Twelve

Three pages of six now complete. What is scary is the bottom half is full of those scattered stitches!

Work From Stash and One BAP for 2009, Week Eleven

Pages 2 and 3 of six chart pages complete! 

Work From Stash and One BAP for 2009, Week Ten

Halfway through one page of six. This is SLOW! Certainly it will qualify as a BAP!