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!
Jo says:
That’s a really cute piece and great that it was free! I’m looking forward to seeing the cat!! Jo
20 November 2004 at 13:32
Crafty Blog says:
Cat in Garden
Last night, I finished “Cat in Garden,” a piece that I have been working on since March of this year. I have had issues with this piece since I started it, so I am definitely glad to be finished with it.
I estimate that I was about 25% finished …
11 December 2004 at 12:03