There she goes again!
Uh, huh...another one. For the past week and a half I have been trying to find my "mojo" (as Margit puts it). I pick up a project - work on it for 15 minutes, toss it down. Search through my WIP's, and think, OK, this one is it. Work on it for 15 minutes, toss it down. Now I have got some stitching done, but just have not "wanted" to work on whatever project I was stitching. Make sense in some sort of convaluted way? Until yesterday...woke up from a brief nap with the immediate notion to start on my Desert Mandala from Chatelaine Designs. Usually I ignore these "notions." But yesterday I just said "what the heck is another WIP to add to the pile?" and gave in. I have had the fabric, the Petite Treasure Braids and DMC's for this one for about two weeks. I also have most of the silks (I think). So, I cut my fabric to size and started stitching....and stitching....and stitching. I just could not put it down all day! Now that doesn't happen too often. So here it is after yesterday's stitching marathon.
I even managed to stitch the over-one coyote. Can you see where the over one hawk will go?
Now that tree...if you look at the top central branch you can see that it is a bit darker than the rest. I was not too happy with the coverage of the black Treasure Braid (which seems thinner than the other colors, to me). So I tried stitching over top of the stitch's top leg once again with the braid. I am going to do the rest of the tree, too. Next time I'll know better and use two strands from the start to do the stitching.
5 comments:
You made some good progress on this. I've wanted to see someone start stitching this. I didn't join the group (have too many others of hers laying around), so I'm going to be looking forward to your progress!
Wonderful progress!!! Can we ever have too many WIP?? :)
I am really thinking of signing upo for this one.
I think the PR black is thin as well. I am using it on a PR and thought it was too thin so I doubled up. Thought that is what I needed to do. Doubling up the other braid colors....well that is too thick (But too late to rip out) So you are not crazy for thinking the black is thinner. I think it is.
I am really thinking of signing upo for this one.
I think the PR black is thin as well. I am using it on a PR and thought it was too thin so I doubled up. Thought that is what I needed to do. Doubling up the other braid colors....well that is too thick (But too late to rip out) So you are not crazy for thinking the black is thinner. I think it is.
I know exactly how you feel with the WIPs, I have those times too - and it's usually at this time of year too, must be the summer. I actually started a new Dickens mitten last night because I was just in that mood, and it's almost done now :-)
Nice stitching on the Desert!
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