Incoherent Scribblings

I have been a busy little stitching bee lately. I still don’t always have a chance to stitch every day, but I have been stitching a lot more than I was.

As you may remember, I decided to free myself from my daily rotation for now. I am sort of working on an ordered, screaming, weekly rotation. This means I am devoting approximately a week to each piece in my rotation and I can work on any piece that is screaming at me as long as it hasn’t been worked on during this round of my rotation. As of today, the only piece in my rotation that hasn’t been worked on since I came back to the States is “Above the Clouds.”

For the past week or so, I have been working on “Celtic Spring.” When I looked at my records, it appears that I have not worked on this piece since about June. As you can well imagine, Mae was sorely in need of some attention! I have made quite a bit of progress on her skirt and may stay with this piece for a while longer since I am enjoying it so much.

I have also been working on Christine’s RR piece. We are doing monochromatic seasonal hearts. My season is Autumn and my color is 3045. I have been working on this piece while I am at work and though I keep forgetting to take a progress pic, I am probably close to 2/3 of the way done. Our post date isn’t until December 15, but I want to get it done and back to Christine sooner if possible.

However, after today’s shift at work I will put the RR aside and designate my Stocking Stuffer Exchange project as my work project. Starting Sunday/Monday I have to work three graveyard shifts in a row, so I think I can get it stitched up while I listen for the radio.

And finally I can reveal the scissor fob I stitched for Mylene over at the Robin’s Nest. The pattern is from the Prairie Schooler pattern called “Pins and Needles” and is model stitched as a scissor case. The pattern shows both motifs on one piece, but I modified the pattern into a scissor fob by stitching the needle/thread and the saying separately and then putting them together with a whipped backstitch.

3777 and 924(?) were the main colors in the design, so I also used them to make the cording. This was only the second or third time I have made cording and it took me a little while to get the hang of it because I haven’t fiddled around with that stuff since last summer. All in all, I think that the cording and the fob turned out really well. I hope Mylene enjoys it.

And now… I am off to stitch!

Posted on Saturday 11 November 2006 at 10:28 under finishing, round robins, exchanges, & gifts, wips.
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