Work from Stash and One BAP for 2009, Week Twenty-Four

Jun 17, '09 8:28 AM

All the cross stitches in (except maybe one lone blue one... ooops!) and the backstitching is started!

Work from Stash and One BAP for 2009, Week Twenty-Three

New project, or maybe not so new as it's been in the works since the middle of June 2006. It's called "Bath 5 Cents" and is a Bucilla kit, design by Scafa-Art, Van Dijk.

Here is what it looked like in February, 2008:

And here is what it looks like after two days of stitching this past week:

I know, it doesn't look like a lot has been accomplished, but believe me, I put in three colors!

Another Completion!

Time to start thinking about the next project!

Work from Stash and One BAP for 2009, Week Twenty-Two

Getting there. Only three more motifs and it will be finished!

Work from Stash and One BAP for 2009, Week Twenty-One

Nearly 2/3 done!   

This picture really doesn't do the piece justice. For example that is a straight line of stitching at the top --- what looks like a curve is actually the fabric wrinkled and folded a little.

Work from Stash and One BAP for 2009, Week Twenty

I have to stop stitching after 10 at night, because that is when I make the mistakes which require ripping out work. It happened twice more this week... but I did make progress, and I did manage to fudge that one big mistake!

Work from Stash and One BAP for 2009, Week Nineteen

Spent a day picking out a motif because I misread the chart. Picked it up again three days later and then, Sunday, discovered I'd made the same mistake again, placing the motif I had just picked out (it's that goldish brown one at the bottom - the color is called Kodiak Bear) 6 threads too high! AAACK! I WILL NOT pick it out again! Silk stitches over one is a bear to remove!

So I will have to fudge... - I will put in the motifs all around it and then fit the rest of the misplaced motif in as if it was overlapped. 

Oh well, at least now I have a place to sign and date this piece! LOL