Incoherent Scribblings

Today I finished the bottom of Maggie’s dress! As soon as I finish up her underskirt, I will be done with all of the cross stitching in this piece! I will then naturally have some backstitching to do, but not as much as you might think. There is also a teeny bit of beading (this will be my first attempt at beading), about 50 French Knots in Maggie’s underskirt (not exaggerating either… but that’s OK: I do wicked FKs), and half a dozen Lazy Daisies (never done them before either) to do as well.

I agree that I still have a lot of work to do, BUT I can see the finish line and it is such an awesome feeling! Seriously, when I bought this pattern almost a year ago I never even thought I would have enough courage to start it, let alone FINISH it! My, oh, my how my stitching confidence has grown and how my tastes have changed in such a short amount of time… mostly thanks to the online stitching community.
I don’t really have much more to say about “Passing Admirers” at the moment: Maggie’s dress has stitched up very smoothly. The only problem I had was when I ripped out a couple of rows that I thought I had messed up about a month ago, but then realized I hadn’t made a mistake after all. I am not sure I would count that as a major problem though, just a frustration. However, the underskirt might be a bit more challenging: It isn’t exactly confetti stitching, but there are a lot of different colors scattered throughout the underskirt and it might take some time to stitch up.

Otherwise, I am already looking forward to my next large project(s) and have been doing some rotation thinking. I will most likely start either “Catch the Wind” or “The Candy Tuft Fairy” (they are running neck and neck in the poll) as my next large project. However, I still have the “Stitcher’s Sampler” in my WIP pile. It is quite large, only about 15% complete, and I haven’t touched it since March. I also have my round robins and exchanges to do and I would like to finish a couple of smaller projects that I started back in May.

I will, of course, be giving any exchanges and robins priority, but otherwise I’ve been thinking about rotating my non-obligation projects on a weekly basis: This way all of my pieces would get some attention, but since I would work on them for a whole week they would get my undivided attention for longer than just a few hours. I am not sure yet though. Once “Passing Admirers” is finished I will revisit the issue a bit more seriously.

Posted on Tuesday 9 August 2005 at 17:49 under wips.
Comment RSS 2.0 feed. Comments/Pings Closed.