Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Curl up with a Good Book

I love this pattern, but I hate this project. There's just too much confetti stitches. And I usually stitch by color but I always seem to miss a square or two of a color I've already done so that make the "confetti" even worse by going back and catching those missed stitches. I think this project is going to kill me. At least it was free. I don't know what I'd do if I had to pay for this torture.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Grim Reaper update

So, here's an update to the Grim Reaper project I started sometime around the first of the year. All I have left to do on this page is black and it's quite boring. I'm thinking of stitching the other colors on the other pages and then all I'd have left to do is black. That could get very boring, but I could use that as a break from all the color changes/confetti stitches in my other projects. When done I'll hang this up in my family room.



I'm staggering the bottom edge because I noticed a seam between pages when stitching all of one color. I'm hoping that if I do it this way it might cover up that page seam.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Traffic Sampler update

So, I'm still working on the Traffic Sampler Birth Record for my nephew. I've done a couple more cars on it and while I hate doing the backstitch for each car I love how they already look finished when I'm doing with them. Some of the backstitching on some of the cars has been harder than others but I still find that whole process tedious and boring.

Here's my latest updated photo. I'm going to take a break from this design for a week or two and work on something else. Heaven knows I've got plenty of projects on the go right now.