Incoherent Scribblings

Cat in Garden

I spent quite some time yesterday and today working on “Cat in Garden,” and am 13 hours into my new 15 hour rotation system. I made really good progress and estimate I am about 70% done.

I have uploaded some progress pictures in my Stitch Gallery, if you want to check them out! You may notice that currently there is no cat in the picture, but I hope to add him this weekend.

I must say I have had quite a love-hate relationship with this piece. It is the first large piece that I started on Evenweave. Since I started it back in March, I have completely converted from Aida to Evenweave, but at the time I was still learning how to count over two and it gave me quite the headaches at first! I had to rip out a lot because of counting mistakes.

In addition to that, this “garden” has many subtle shades of green. Since they are so close to one another, I have gotten confused a number of times as to which square with which color I am on.

It was the combination of these two things that made me put it down when I was only about 30% done with it. However, I really liked the design when I downloaded it free from the DMC site and hoped to one day finish it. In fact, when I started my “No More UFOs” rotation system I made a silent goal to finish it by the end of the year and it looks like I just might reach it!

11/20 Update: The cat has now entered the garden!