OK, I've decided...

It will be "Floral Alphabet", designed by Permin of Copenhagen and published in two parts as a chart in "Just Cross Stitch", March/April and May/June 2009 issues.

Back to Basics and Learn a New Technique, Week Thirteen

Nothing to show today since Garden Sampler is finished. I need to decide: will it be an Ink Circles chart (I have the fabric but need to pull the floss for two of them), a UFO (I still have a few long-term UFOs in my cabinet) or that Just Cross Stitch Alphabet Sampler that I stitched the letter "M" from (I have the fabric and the floss already pulled). Or maybe something altogether new... Hmmmm!

Of course, I COULD cut the fabric for the guild mystery quilt or even my Unstarted Quilt Project. To say nothing of actually stitch some of the blocks together... But that means I need to spend time in my basement craft room and it is so beautiful outside...

And I NEED to finish the March BJP and plan the one for April. It is April 1, after all!

A quandary!

Finally!

It's done. Hooray! Yesterday the last backstitch went in!

Now to decide what to do next!

Back to Basics and Learn a New Technique, Week Twelve

Making progress slowly but surely... Backstitching is about half-done!

Back to Basics and Learn a New Technique, Week Eleven

I didn't make a lot of progress, thanks to my cold. Only a few strands of green backstitching on "Garden Sampler" for borders, sunflower leaves, rose leaves and herb pots:

But I did get the tax questionnaire mailed off!

Back to Basics and Learn a New Technique, Week Ten

A nasty cough and headache virus, thanks to my dear husband, who cultivated it to maximum strength before generously passing it on to me, has stalled "Garden Sampler" in mid-backstitch... So until I get over this virus and ALSO get the taxes done (AAACK!), it will probably not progress much in the next week...

Back to Basics and Learn a New Technique, Week Nine

It needs the background behind "Garden" and a lime green border one stitch wide, and then it's on to the backstitching. Typical of a Kooler Design Studio, the backstitching is extensive and in many colors... and on this chart, I find that some of the backstitching isn't even marked if I believe the photo on the package.

No progress on the beading or quilting fronts...