Incoherent Scribblings

SAL Musings

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.

Happy Confetti

I am so happy I am (almost) speechless, so I will let the picture do the talking.

Above the Clouds
by TW Designworks
April 2006-February 2008
32 count Self-dyed Belfast “Turquoise Sky” Linen
Stitch Time: 97 hours
DMC Fibers

Winter Love

How appropriate that I finished “Winter Love” by SamSarah Design Studio from the JCS 2007 Christmas Ornament issue just in time for Valentine’s Day!

Actually, I stitched this as part of my 10 Ornies in 500 Days Challenge. This will be turned into a Christmas Ornament for a member of my family. At the moment, I think it will more than likely be for my step-mom, but I haven’t decided for sure so I haven’t personalized it yet.

I envision it as a simple pillow-style ornament, though I am hoping to make it a tuck-pillow ornament. I would like to finish it into the ornament sometime soon, but it will really depend if I can find some appropriate fabric.

There isn’t much of a fabric selection out here in West Texas Town, so I am considering looking to see if I can find some sort of fabric shop online. I figure that with all the quilters out there, there are just as likely to be OQSs as there are ONSs, right?

And with this finish, I am afraid I can put it off no longer… “Above the Clouds” must be next in my rotation.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

SBQ: Starting Over

This week’s SBQ was suggested by Loretta and is:

Do you have any projects that you have scrapped and started over? What made you start over from scratch?

There have been a couple of times when I started a project over on a different piece of fabric after a few rows because I didn’t like my original fabric choice, but I am not sure that counts.

I also have a Mirabilia freebie that I scrapped a couple of years ago because I didn’t like the color conversion that I came up with. And while I have plans to someday start it over using the original colors, that hasn’t happened yet so I am not sure that counts either.

Beyond that, I can’t think of anything that I have ever scrapped and started over from scratch.

Brain-Dead

Even though I am pretty much brain-dead from working on the homework for my novel writing class and can barely put together a cohesive thought for tonight’s post, I thought I would take a moment to show this week’s progress on “Harvest Witch.”

Here she is. Enjoy.