Stained Glass Window update

Here's another update for my Stained Glass Window project. I think I should be done later today or tomorrow.:

The Last E Ticket Ride update

Here is a project that I've been working on for my family room. It's called The Last E Ticket Ride by James Christensen. Here is what the finished piece is suppose to look like:




I just finished page 2 of the pattern the other day, so here is my progress. I'm doing it 2 over 1 on 20ct hardanger fabric. This was before I tried tent stitches. I think things would be going much faster if I was doing that.:



I think it's kind of cool but the confetti stitches in the face and lower right area were a pain in the ass. I've got to come up with a better way to do confetti stitches. I started this project 2 years ago (October 2009). I've worked on a lot of other projects since then because it didn't take me a whole year to do each page. I'm going to make a conscious effort to work on projects for me and not try to do so many as gifts. Every time I think about doing something as a gift I put my projects aside to do them. That is why it's taken 2 years to do 2 pages . . . and why my walls are bare in my house. I haven't been able to finish anything to hang up.

Curl Up with a Good Book update

So I had a goal of finishing this first page by the end of the year and I don't think I'm going to make it. Oh well. If there wasn't so much confetti I might actually have done it. It didn't help that I was also trying to finish page 2 of The Last E Ticket Ride, crochet an afghan as a Christmas gift and paint a toy box in 7 different colors as a Christmas gift as well. Live and learn I guess.

Stained Glass Window update

Here's my latest progress with my Stained Glass Window project. I moved the hoop over and down a bit so I could do the left edge but I forgot about the top left corner. I guess I'll have to go back and finish it. I also ran out of #844. I don't know of it was a whole skein to begin with or not. I knew I would use a lot since I'm using 3 strands over one but I didn't think I would finish a bobbin with just this much stitching. It's only 5 inches x 5 inches. Luckily I already had a backup bobbin waiting so when I pick this back up again I won't have to worry about going out for more thread. Of course I will have to go out to replace my backup bobbin and also because I'm sure I'll use a lot more thread as well.