End of Rotation - The Royals

The Royals is a SAL on the Q4OC (Quilts for Older Children and Adults) Facebook page and is one of the 2020 Stitcher's Challenge projects.  I'm stitching it as charted on 14-count white Aida with the called for DMC.  My contribution is Jasmine and Aladdin and this picture is after 10 hours.  I'm amazed at how fast this is stitching up!

Next up: My Pad (from Mill Hill)

End of Rotation - Deer Scene

After 10 hours

After 20 hours

Deer Scene is a kit from Dimensions and I'm using the materials provided in the kit.

Next Up: Jasmine and Aladdin

End of Rotation - Deer Scene

This is Deer Scene, a kit from Dimensions after 10 hours.  It's being stitched as charted with the materials provided.  And here is what the finished project will look like.

I'm stitching this for the BJD Year Long Challenge on Cross Stitch Frog Busters.  (BJD stands for Bucilla, Jan Lynn or Dimensions)  You start a new project from one of these companies, the object being to finish it by December 31st.  This is the fourth year I've joined this challenge and so far I've only completed one of the projects.  I do plan to finish this one though since it could be a Christmas present for either my father-in-law or my brother-in-law.

Next Up:  Red Christmas (Nikyscreations - 2019 JCS Ornament Issue)

End of Rotation - Let's Learn from Our Cat & Peppermint Purple SAL - Week 7

As of 2/5/2020 after 30 hours

As of 2/17/2020 after 42 hours

 

I know I said that I was planning to finish Let's Learn from Our Cat in this rotation, but I had to change my plans.  About 3/4 of the way through, I realized that I hadn't centered it correctly.  In fact, I was way off!  By making several unintentional mistakes and some fudging on purpose, I managed to complete the project within the fabric I had (I removed some fabric from the bottom and added it to the top so I could continue to use my Q-snaps.)  However, I discovered that somehow I managed to lose several rows inside the cat at the top--I'm still not sure how that happened.

Right now I'm trying to decide if I should consider it done at this point or re-chart the words inside the cat to be closer together.  I'm pretty sure the recipient will be happy with it either way.  What do you think?  Should I leave it as is or add the words?

After removing this from the Q-snaps last night, I also managed to stitch Week 7 of the Peppermint Purple SAL.  This time I used DMC 52.  There were two options for this square, one with diagonal symmetry and one with horizontal and vertical symmetry like the previous squares.  I chose to do the one with diagonal symmetry. 

End of Rotation - Let's Learn from Our Cat

This is Let's Learn From Our Cat from Ursula Michael after 30 hours.  It's stitched on light blue 14-count Aida, but I've changed all the colors.  The color is truer in the first picture which was scanned.  The second picture was taken with my phone since it no longer fits in my scanner.  I don't have too much left so I will probably finish it during the next rotation, even if it takes more than 10 hours.

As of 1/21/2020

As of 2/5/2020

Next Up: Furry Tales - Valentine Mouse (finish)

End of Rotation - Lets Learn From Our Cat

This is Let's Learn From Our Cat from Ursula Michael after 20 hours.  It's stitched on light blue 14-count Aida, but I've changed all the colors.  The original is done in primary colors and I like these better and I think so will the recipient.

It's coming along quite quickly and it's now over half done.  There is an error somewhere in the word "time" that I'll have to correct before continuing.  I think it's in the "t" and even if it isn't, I'll shorten the "t" to correct the problem.

Next Up: August Owl (finish)

Happy New Year! and End of a Rotation

 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I hope 2020 is good to you and yours and is happy and prosperous too!

 

We had a rather quiet New Year's Eve last night.  We have a friend who typically calls at midnight to wish us a Happy New Year and catch up on what's happened the past year.  Lately he's been calling at 9:00 PST since we're all getting older and don't usually make it until midnight.  This was the highlight of our evening.

We did manage to stay up until midnight this year; the fireworks from Disneyland were loud and long so we probably would have been awakened anyway.

I spent the evening stitching and finished the rotation on Let's Learn from Our Cats from Ursula Michael.

This is being stitched on 14-count Lite Blue Aida with my choice of colors since the original chart was in primary colors and I'm not a fan.  This is after 10 hours of stitching. 

I haven't made any official plans for the coming year, but I am going to continue with my SALs and hope to finish a few WIPs too. I have chosen a few projects I want to work on in January though and hope to stitch every day.

I'm going back to my OAAT rotation this year.  Large projects will be rotated after 10 hours, smaller projects when finished.  With a couple of exceptions, I'm planning to stitch on one project per evening.

Up next: Furry Tales Happy New Year Mouse