Hooray Hooray! I have a completed project! Of course if you have been following along you knew my FFO for this month would be the Silk and Satin Reticule from Betsy Morgan. I felt so lucky to get a chart of this project which was retired when I discovered it. I was able to assemble …
Read the full post →“August FFO Gallery: Silk and Satin Reticule”
It took some reworking and some final touches but now the reticule stitching is now for real and absolutely finished and all that remains is the the assembly. I got the original design for the monogram out of this Dover book of monograms which has a monogram for every pair of letters. As I mentioned …
I didn’t really stitch on smalls this month, more like mediums, and I *almost* finished them. The first is not finished because yes indeed, I did run out of light pink silk. Here she is…just a couple dozen stitches shy of completion…Jane Marshall 1857 from Hands Across the Sea: Don’t you just love those 2 …
Read the full post →“July Smalls Check-In-I almost made it!”
This month I’m going to try hard not to start anything new. I have plenty to work on. I definitely plan to finish up my Silk and Satin project from Betsy Morgan. I got my missing silk color and it’s quite close to a finish. I like working on this little crewel rocking horse ornament. …
Why is it that small projects often give the most trouble? I have 2 lovely projects I was working on last week and both have given so much hassle. I think I’m not paying attention! I’ve been careless and it is wasting my time! Let me tell you about it! Last month I showed my …
Read the full post →“Keeping it real: Two stories about frogs”
I was having a little trouble deciding what to do after The Pink Sparrow. I have way too many projects started at the moment. While I long to get into another one of the bigger ones, I feel like I need to tick a few more off the WIP list first. Of course it doesn’t …
