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.

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.

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.

Traffic Sampler Birth Record

I'm working on a birth announcement for my nephew. He's 3 1/2 right now, but that's okay because his older sister didn't get birth announcement until she was 5. I started one that I liked but I've had problems and I didn't like the purple panda so I went looking for something else. Since he likes cars and trucks that was what I was looking for. Then I found this:




This is how much I've got done so far. I'm hoping to get it done and framed by Christmas or his birthday in January.

Backtracking

So I've been working on a project for a friend. Unfortunately I found a mistake in what I had done. I could have redone the rest of the pattern to compensate for my mistake or rip out half of what I had already done and do everything right. I'm a perfectionist at heart so any mistake left uncorrected would bother me so I ripped everything out. Here's the before and after pictures of what I had to undo. Believe me when I say I wasn't a happy stitcher.

The project went from this:





To this:

New Stash acquisitions

Here are some pictures of some new stash acquisitions. I don't need any more stash, but I couldn't resist. That's two pieces of 28ct Jazlyn in English Rose and Amaretto. The rest of my Geisha kits, some linen charts and a Christmas booklet.

QS Curl Up With a Good Book SAL

On Heaven and Earth's forums I signed up for a QS (quick stitch) freebie. It's a smaller portion of a larger chart. The one I picked was Curl up with a Good Book. Every other month you get a new page of the chart and you stitch it up. If you can post 6 pictures of your progress throughout the year (even if you don't finish) you get access to the other freebie QS projects. I'm not making much progress but here is what I have so far.