I have been dipping into the basket of "charts I really want to stitch" rather indiscriminately. Two days ago, it was the Mill Hill Easter Egg kit. I love working with beads although I still have a hard time threading beading needles, I actually broke one of the needle threaders specifically made for the purpose and have reverted to just threading the darn things by hand. This is a frustrating process that usually takes several dozen attempts before I succeed.
Yesterday, it was back to the Prairie Schooler Primitive Americana to start the last chart in that leaflet, Lady Liberty.
Today, I pulled out another Prairie Schooler project, a complimentary chart with a Queen Bee motif. Since this is stitched on black linen, I wanted to stitch it while the weather was still pleasant enough for outdoor stitching. I find natural light is best when stitching on black.
Needless to say, all this switching about doesn't leave me with much progress to photograph. And the upshot of all this: the WIP basket is getting quite crowded. In addition to the above mentioned projects there are the following fifteen projects in semi=active rotation:
Needless to say, all this switching about doesn't leave me with much progress to photograph. And the upshot of all this: the WIP basket is getting quite crowded. In addition to the above mentioned projects there are the following fifteen projects in semi=active rotation:
- M Designs Sean Name tree - with the Es and Ns still to be stitched.
- CECs The Swimming Instructor - with the face still to be stitched and the beaded necklace still to be attached.
- The Jacobean Elegance afghan - with 15 more squares to be stitched.
- Making Waves needlepoint project - with more than 3/4s of the bargello rows and more than 2/3s of the eyelet area to be stitched.
- Workbasket's Quaker Squirrel - about half way done
- My own design, Fertile Circles needle book, the back panel needs finishing.
- My own design, Beach Find Pansies, to be completed and incorporated into an embellished crazy quilt square
- To Thine Own Self Be True freebie - need to frog an error in the border and restitch it.
- The Victoria Sampler Mystic Smalls class project - I need to stitch the needle book and the biscornu.
- The Prairie Schooler Year Round - need to stitch the October entry
- Another needlepoint project, Rice Pudding, using many variations of the rice stitch.
- Yet another needlepoint project, an Owl, again a project using lots of specialty stitches.
- Piper's Christmas stocking adapted from a Dimensions kit.
- HAED's The Tangle Fairy, barely started
- The Goblin Market 0 started last week.
There are other class projects on the unfinished list [see my Class Project sidebar] but I don't count them as WIPs since I haven't touched them since the classes ended, I will get to them eventually but they are not immediately before me. The scary thing is that there are at least another twenty charts on the "charts I really want to stitch" and so, there is the potential for a much longer WIP list. A part of me [the list-making, orderly and organized A type personality] would like to see a more disciplined approach, ticking one finished project after another off the list before making any more new starts. But there is another part of me [the aging hippie free spirit] prompting me to just enjoy whatever catches my fancy at the moment.
And I don't even want to start listing what is in the sewing and assembly finish laundry basket.
