Stash Busting again...

Arrows" (meant to be a pincushion but I don't think that's what I'll do...) which uses ecru DMC as "grout" in this mosaic pattern and a variety of DMC threads used in previous Stash Busting Club pieces, on 18ct mono canvas:

 

Still can't round those circles!

2012: A Year of Challenges - week 10

Not a lot to say today that's different from my WIPocalypse report... I have progressed a little on the Stash Buster mosaic and I did finish TAST for week 10 since that report, but otherwise, a slow week, stitchery-wise. 

Why? because life got in the way, basically --- house guests, DH's High School Class monthly breakfast, pot-luck at quilt guild. All of this seemed to take up my stitching time!

Take a Stitch Tuesday 2012- week 10

This week's stitch is the Running Stitch, a stitch I am familiar with but hardly ever use!

I've started a new "page" for March, on Wichelt Wood Violet 28ct Jobelan, and the running stitches are in GAST Cherry Bark with embellishment  of GAST Butternut Squash. I stitched a "typical" running stitch, and then some variants: threaded running stitch, whipped running stitch, interlaced running stitch, interlaced double running stitch and stepped threaded running stitch. Then, I went a step further and did a pattern darning border which can be found in the "Index of  Charts for Medieval Middle Eastern Counted-Thread Embroidery"  compiled by Mathilde Eschenbach.

WIPocalypse 2012 - 3

March 8 (and the moon did look almost full Tuesday night so that should have been a reminder to me that WIPocalypse is coming up!).

This month wasn't all that productive for me, actually, at least when it comes to counting finishes;  most were what I consider "smalls" although some, like the Stash Busters, take a lot more time than it looks like they should have:

Stash Busters: Finishes were  Aurora Borealis and Scotch & Soda; starts were a mosaic pincushion which I will likely make into an ornament instead (I'm not a pincushion kind of gal): 

Take a Stitch Tuesday: Finishes were chevron stitch, detached chain stitch, chain stitch and couching --- all of which can be seen on my February "page". Haven't even begun week 10 (running stitch).

Bargello Club --- the last installments were Medallion and Hungarian Point. The club is completed (although I have signed up for the next one!)

Crazy Quilt Journal/Bead Journal/ Color Palette Challenges - two finishes - one for February and one for March. Have to wait for April 1 and the next color palette selection before I can move on.

FInishing Frenzy was mainly pillows and ornaments! Seven angel ornaments, one needlepoint pillow, and two crewel pillows - one of violets and one of poinsettias (which still need to be stuffed!). I need to come up with a new long-term-unfinished piece today...

"Sewing with Mama!," begun in the last week of August, was FINALLY done! No new cross stitch started.

"Kimono - Revisited" is kitted up, on a frame and gridded but not a single stitch yet (and I'm being gently nagged by the teacher to get some results!

CQJP2012/BJP2012/Color Palette Challenge combo for March

This piece was influenced by the color palette challenge issued by Judy Laquidara and Vicki Welsh. The Crazy Quilt Journal Challenge requires at least a 6 x 6 block and I used the grid from block 53 of Sharon B's" (of Pin Tangle) "I dropped the Button Box" project. In addition, stitches from the Take a Stitch Tuesday challenge adorn the seams: couched stitches, chain stitches , detached chains (Lazy Daisies) and chevron. The Bead Journal Project aspect of the piece was the beading throughout the seam treatments.

2012: A Year of Challenges - week 9

The challenges keep rolling in!

I've finalized my thread choices (I hope) for "Kimono-Revisited" but have yet to start stitching on it...


I've started two more Finish Frenzies, but since my last one consumed all my polyfill, I had to make a trip to Hobby Lobby this AM to buy more (A LOT more if my credit card charge is any indication but, hey, when I go in there, I have to check out the stamping department , the bead department, the embroidery department, etc...). Anyway, awaiting filling are the crewel violets, date completed unknown (I have it in my pre-2001 album but, since it's crewel, odds are its back in the 1970s somewhere):



and the crewel poinsettias, same time period as violets:



I also started the crazy quit block for the March Color Palette Challenge (which I will be using, again, as my Crazy Quilt Journal/Bead Journal Project combo):


I actually got some seam treatment embroidery done on this last night as well...

Oh, and the latest "Stash Buster" arrived in the email yesterday so I need to kit that out...

The "last" Bargello Club piece

OK, I admit I thought I was done with this one month earlier but I was wrong. This is the last for Bargello Club 2011: Hungarian Point...

DMC floss ecru, 754, 760, 4110, 838, 3808 and 3811. This one was fast (only one evening) and I only got "lost" in the pattern once but found my way out pretty quickly! But I still have issues with rounding circles...