Here is this week’s progress on “Harvest Witch.” I had a brief visit from the frogs last night so I didn’t get as much done as I would have liked, but I made a significant amount of progress nevertheless.
I am having quite a lot of fun with this pattern. Although it is a Stoney Creek pattern with plenty of color changes and some blends, it is stitching up rather quickly. (Of course, I have a sneaking suspicion that the fact that Dawn and I are stitching her as an SAL and working on her once a week has quite a lot to do with how fast she seems to be stitching up.)
This isn’t the first time I have done an SAL. In fact, I have tried them a couple of times. The first one I tried to do was abandoned when the person I was SALing with became pregnant and more or less stopped stitching. I didn’t work on the piece for months as I waited for her to have the time and energy to stitch again, but she had a complicated pregnancy and it never happened. Finally she told me she wasn’t sure when she would have time to stitch again and that I should just finish the piece on my own, so that is what I did.
I also tried an SAL when I was a member of the Friends Gather Bulletin Board. The SALs on the board at that time were designer-oriented and so even though everyone was stitching something by the same designer we weren’t all working on the same piece. I thought it would be OK to work on different pieces by the same designer, but no one else was working on the same piece I was so this type of SAL ended up not being very motivating for me.
However, I think the reason I am enjoying this SAL so much more is because it is working as I think SALs should work. Not only are we working on the same pattern at a designated time, we are also stitching at about the same pace and as a result, should be finished about the same time.