A Good Thing: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
I got a lot of stitching done today! Or at least it felt like it. I mostly filled in areas today so the fabric looks a lot fuller than it did yesterday.
Here is where we finished yesterday:
A Good Thing: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
I didn’t have nearly as much time today to stitch as I thought I would… I went and spent some time at my mom’s helping her clean house so we can sell some stuff on ebay and the likes. I thought I would have more time to stitch when I got home but I overworked my wrist and I’m now in some serious pain so I need to rest rather than stitch. I did get twenty stitches or so done throughout the day so I don’t feel the day was a total waste!
Here is where we finished yesterday:
It’s getting pretty late here so time to do the update for the 30 Day Project for today!
So here’s where we finished off yesterday:
You can already see the sleeve on the dress taking shape, which is pretty neat!
Well… on the one hand, the stitching on this chart has gone well, from the thirty or so stitches I’ve done so far. On the other hand, the fact that these threads came unsorted was a total nightmare.
Here is a picture of how the threads all came:
Here we go!
Ooh boy, I picked a doozy for the month of November.
I had such a hard time choosing a project. I went through my kits over and over again, pulling some out, putting them back, starting over. I had so many good ones I didn’t know which one I wanted to do! And I have so many projects already started – not to mention Christmas presents to stitch (I don’t even want to think about Christmas) – I wondered whether I should even start a new one or work on one that’s already in my WIP pile?
Well I eventually settled on a Joan Elliot kit distributed by DesignWorks:
“A Good Thing” kit, distributed by DesignWorks, designed by Joan Elliot.
It’s a 5 x 7 so still manageable, it has some of my favorite themes of bears and food, and when it’s finished I can hang it on the wall of my kitchen.
I opened the kit and went to get everything started… switched out the packaged needle for a gold-plated one, got the fabric in a hoop, and then went to look at the chart.
The chart is not… fabulous. To be honest, it’s one of the worst-looking charts I’ve ever had come in a kit. I don’t mean that it’s hard to follow or badly-designed, it’s actually very well designed, but when DesignWorks went to package this kit I don’t know what they were thinking when it came to the chart? It looks like someone photo-copied the original chart and then scanned it into a computer and printed it out again from a regular printer. In other words, it looks like a very bad photocopy and not what I would expect from an official kit.
It’s not so horrible I can’t follow the chart… I’ll just definitely have to mark my place with my highlighter and a working copy is NOT an option – it’s only going to make the chart even harder to read. So I may have set myself up for failure on this one, but too late now! It’s in the hoop and ready to go and it’s already November 1st. No going back now!
It took me so long to pick a project I don’t really have that much time left to stitch today… expect the first real update to come tomorrow!
Here we go!
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Progress Report is an update on all my stitching habits, from the kits to the stitching to the finishing process and more! Right now I am featuring one of my cat-themed projects and several of the mini kits I’m currently working on, along with other pieces I like to pull out and work on at random.
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Welcome to Episode Sixteen of The Five-Minute Stitch!
I explain where the videos went for a few weeks and continue work on the snail.
Welcome to Episode Fifteen of The Five-Minute Stitch!
I talk about the virtues of small kits and how impressed I am with small kits having a lot of detail, and talk about several finishes I’ve done of different sizes.
Welcome to Episode Fourteen of The Five-Minute Stitch!
I return back to the bookmark for a bit of stitching on the green color before moving on to the variegated thread again.
God Sent Special Things: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
My wrist is feeling pretty crummy today and I’ve got class tonight, so I really don’t feel like doing anything… since the chance of me doing any stitching to cheer myself up is low, I thought it might be nice to write some articles for the blog instead!
Funny story: when I first started this project I was about to go on vacation to Florida for a week… that was almost two years ago now! I took it with me to stitch on and ended up spending all my time in the ocean so I don’t think I got more than 10 stitches done on it? Fast forward two years later, I’m going on vacation to Florida, and having completely forgot that this was the project I took two years ago, I brought it with me to stitch on!
So this is where we left off last time:
The current progress, after forty some stitches.
Again, I spent more time in the ocean and on the beach than I did inside with my stitching so I didn’t get much done. But, we spent the night at my boyfriend’s grandpa’s house on the way back home and there was a nasty storm, so I stitched some while the power flickered, and I stitched some more as we finished the last half of the drive. I don’t know how many stitches I finished… but I feel like I made some progress!
This is the sum total of all the stitching I did on vacation:
The current progress!
I finished the stitches on the left kitten where I had run out of thread, and I started on the basket both kittens are sitting in. There are a lot of fractionals in that area! I seem to pick the projects with the maximum amount of fractionals in one area. It drives me crazy! I don’t mind doing fractionals but I do mind them on aida, and that’s all I seem to stitch on. I debated starting on the white on the right kitten so it didn’t look like a zombie ate part of its face, but my philosophy is always to save white on white for as close to the end as possible! I was happy to work with darker thread and different colors. I don’t like confetti stitching but working with the same colors can get so dull after awhile.
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Progress Report is an update on all my stitching habits, from the kits to the stitching to the finishing process and more! Right now I am featuring one of my cat-themed projects and several of the mini kits I’m currently working on, along with other pieces I like to pull out and work on at random.
By the way – to keep up on Little Thread Crafts stitching news and get pictures, updates, and more that don’t appear on the blog until much later, follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! I would greatly appreciate it!
Progress Report: Cat Rotation #2, God Sent Special Things, Part 1
Progress Report: Cat Rotation #2, God Sent Special Things, Part 2
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THIS is an example of why I Don’t Like Large Projects!
So this is where I left off on my “God Sent Special Things” cross-stitch piece that was a part of my failed Cat Rotation:
Where I left off last.
