Spiral Fractal - Finished

Here's another finish of mine.  I really like crossing off projects that have been on my WIP list for a long time.  I started this one in March of 2010.  It's nice to be done with it.  I think I'll make this one in to a pillow.

Spiral Fractal update

I've got lots of updates to do because when I finish something (or a page) I've been too eager to move on to the next project.  Let's start with my latest update and maybe I'll work backwards from there.  I might miss something, but I'll always remember to show a finished pic so you'll know how it ends.

The latest page of my Spiral Fractal completed.  The next page is only about 4,800 stitches so I might stick with it and finish the project.  It will be nice to cross something off the list, especially one that's been on there for awhile.  I think I'll make this in to a pillow when I'm done.  I've got too many other projects I want to hang on the wall.

Updates . . . lots of updates

Okay, I've had some technical issued that have prevented me from posting for awhile but I've got that all worked out.  At least a temporary work-around until I can get something more permanent in place.  Instead of doing an individual post for each project I've worked on I'm going to lump everything here to make it easier for me.  So here's goes.

First update:
This is actually a finish.  Yeah!  Although in looking at the scan I might have missed some outlining on the white hair piece on the right side.  I'll have to look at the pattern and see.  This is Japanese Beauty #1.  She hasn't been washed or ironed but that can wait until I'm ready to frame her, which probably won't be until I get the other one finished (of course I have to start it first).

Second update:
This is also a finish.  Yeah!  I'm so glad to cross this one off my WIP as it's be languishing there for years.  It's Music Violin (at least that's what I call it).  It's been washed but not ironed.  When I did the strings for the violin it was pulled tight in the hoop.  Now that it's out the strings are flopping everywhere.  If you pull the fabric tight they straighten out so that's something I'm going to have to make note of when I take it to get framed.

Third update:
This is also another finish (notice a trend).  Yeah!  It's Carsassonne.  Also another "been on the WIP list for a lifetime".  I not sure if I'm totally happy with the 'C's colors, especially the lightest one, but I'll think about it for awhile until it's time to frame it.  At that point I just might give in (it might look better after it's washed) or pull the lightest color out and redo it.  We'll see.

Fourth update:
This is also another finish.  Yeah!  It might be a start too.  I don't know if I every took the time to post a starting thread or update for this one because I started it right around the time I starting having problems with posting and putting pictures in.  Anyway.  Here it is.  This is Winter Window Scene.  I'll be doing one for each season.  They're meant to go along with the Seasonal Village scenes.  This one was actually much easier to stitch up than what the pattern looked like.  The pattern make it look like it was going to be horrible to do.  But I was pleasantly surprised.  I'm not so sure I'll be able to say the same thing about Spring's window.  We'll see.

Fifth update:
Okay, this one isn't a finish . . . but I'm getting close.  This is a full page completed on Spiral Fractal.  I took this project with me when I went on my cruise to the Bahamas.  It was nice and relaxing to site on a comfy chair and look out the window as we cruised by places.  I could have done without the blaring music coming from everywhere on the ship.  There very little of the purple color left to do so the rest is mostly greens and blues.  I hope to finish it this year and cross another one off of my WIP list.

My goals for the rest of the year is to finish up as many projects as I can.  Whether that be the whole project as a finish (preferably) or maybe a page or two for the larger projects.  Also I wanted to not start so many new projects but that goal has gone out the window already this year.  Results will come at Christmas time.

Sprial Fractal - update

It took a week but I was able to redo the greens and blue from the 2nd page and stitch the third page.  The bottom row of pages is now done.  The top three pages will be full pages as these ones were only about 3/4 of a page.  I'm glad I fixed this error and did another page but I'm setting this aside to work on other things in my ramshackle rotation.

My progress so far:

Sprial Fractal - negative progress

Some times negative progress is still progress. 

I had to unpick all the outer blue on this page because when I went to start the next page I realized my colors weren’t matching up.  That was because I didn’t stitch the darkest green on any of those spokes.  I put this project away for a couple of years because I was so disgusted with myself.  It’s been nagging me ever since. 

So for the last 2 days I’ve very carefully unpicked all of that blue.  I only nicked a small thread of the fabric once but not enough to make a hole.  Once I restitch over that it should be fine.  I also somehow picked up a purple thread in the small section on the bottom left part.  I decided to rip the whole single line of purple threads out even though I only caught 1 color and there was 2 or 3 in the line.  It was about 8 stitches so I don’t mind redoing those. 

This is another project I’d like to finish this year.  I think it will be my UFO project each month until it’s done.