This morning I counted the stitches I had made yesterday doing one white stripe and one red stripe. That was about a few less than 300 stitches. Then I looked at my June project for Camp Cross Stitch.
I checked it on Pattern Keeper, divided the total stitches by 30 days in June and found I would have to stitch just over 700 stitches per day to finish. No way! Then, I decided to multiply the stitches across by the stitches up and down and that’s the number Pattern Keeper uses for total stitches. As you can see and with all charts that are not full coverage, there are some blank spaces that are not stitched.
Maybe one-third of the stitches are blank. Not counting those, I only have to do about 465 stitches per day. That’s still a lot of stitches. There aren’t a whole lot of color changes but still . . a lot of stitches.
I’m thinking I might should switch June to Big Red House. Taking out for the areas not stitched, I think I’d have about 245 stitches per day and it also doesn’t have a lot of color changes.
Decisions! Decisions!
I don’t have Big Red House prepped but it won’t take long. I’ll probably do another Sulky conversion. I think I’ll work on that today and make a decision tomorrow.
Donna says
Judy please don’t take this the wrong way. Quit stressing over the number of stitches and just stitch. If you don’t finish it in June continue on in July. You’ll never get it done if you don’t start. Love your work…it’s beautiful and enjoying the process is what counts not how long it takes or how many stitches per day. Just enjoy it and know it will be a lot prettier finished than in the package. Love your blog just hate seeing you putting yourself in such a tizzy.
Judy Laquidara says
I stress over very few things and the number of stitches is definitely one thing I don’t stress about. Camp Cross Stitch is a challenge and I don’t understand the concept of accepting a challenge if you don’t try to complete the challenge. I have enough stitching to do that I could stitch the rest of my life so I don’t HAVE to do the camp. It’s like Camp Loopy with the knitting or the Socktober. There are challenges issued and so many of us try to do them. A challenge isn’t for everyone but I love pushing myself beyond what I normally would do. I’m one who has a spreadsheet for everything and have to have a plan before I start – whether it’s a meal, a trip, unpacking boxes. Every one of us is different we do things differently. I assure you . . I am nowhere near a tizzy.
I love math and I love calculating what I can do or what I have done. For some people it would be stressful to make a detailed meal plan every week and follow it to a T. For me, I don’t function without it. Please accept that we’re all different and we all go about things differently.
Donna says
I’m glad you’re not stressing and really sorry if I misread the post. Enjoying the process is what it’s all about however you go about it. Your work is beautiful.