Incoherent Scribblings

If you will look over in my sidebar you will see I have added a new area entitled “My Rotation.” This details my newly conceived rotation plan that goes into effect as of today.

I am not sure how well it will work, but I have finally decided to try a daily rotation. All four of my current WIPs are included along with two projects that I have not yet started. The two that I have not yet started are TW’s “Above the Clouds” and Donna Vermillion-Giampa’s “Four Seasons Cats.” They will be started on their appropriate days, but probably not until next month as I want to spend some quality time with “Celtic Spring” and “Fairy Flora” first… Not to mention that the others still need to be kitted up!

So, in keeping with my new rotation, today I have been working on “Fairy Flora.” (Hereafter known as “Flo,” but not Aunt Flo! :lol:) I actually started this project Tuesday evening by dyeing some fabric for it. I call this fabric “Forest Fantasy” and you can see a scan of it here. Once I got the fabby dyed, cut, and zigzagged the edges, I finally started the stitching yesterday and have continued on into today. I have now invested seven hours, thirty minutes into Flo and have a pretty decent chunk of her dress done.

Though I am a little sad to put Flo away, tomorrow I will be working on the long-neglected “Stiefmütterchen.” I have been doing this as a SAL with Susie, but haven’t stitched a pansy on it since November. Because Susie just had a baby in February, I am not sure how long it will be before she is able to stitch regularly again and I really want to get this piece out of my WIP pile, so I am going to go ahead and stitch on it alone from now on. The flowers on this piece stitch up pretty quickly and I have almost half of them done, so I think with some regular attention I can probably get this piece finished within a couple of months.

Then on Saturday I will work on “Celtic Spring” and since I am caught up with my robins and exchanges, I also think I will stitch on it for this month’s Stitch-A-Thon over at the Friends Gather BB. This will be the first month that I have participated in the Stitch-A-Thon and I am not sure how many hours to aim for, but I am going to try for between 5 and 10 hours.

And then on Monday I will go back to “Catch the Wind.” As much as I love this piece, I am glad that I took a little breather from it this week because I needed the time to decide which girl to stitch next! Thanks for all of your input about who I should start next. And the winner with four votes to three is… Anna! It seems to me that the readers of this blog are getting to know me better and better: Anna is who I wanted to start next all along anyway!