This is one of those things I’ll never understand about myself. Why do I put off finishing things that I really love and want to have hanging on my wall? I feel like this sampler speaks of my own feelings over the past three years and it will always seem a bit personal to me.
I started A Changed World by The Scarlett House on August 1, 2021. Right off the bat I completed the outline of the border and the stitching at the top.
Then I moved down to the bottom and began to work my way up.
I stitched the letters and then began filling in the background . . then I stopped and it sat with no work for so long. From time to time, I would fill in more behind the letters because that was mindless stitching.
While at my uncle’s, I was able to get a lot of the background fill in done. Once I got back home, I was determined to get this finished. The baskets on each side of the word box were stitched but over the past week or so, I added the stems and leaves and flowers. The squiggly line above the word box, the squiggly line up above the buildings and the chevron type stitching above that were already done. I’ve also added the church, the two trees, the building next to the church, the grassy area beneath that building. There are two more buildings and I’m hoping that when I have to put this away on the 1st of August to start a new scheduled project, I’ll have those two buildings stitched.
After the buildings are finished, there’s a row of trees/shrubs that will be stitched above the chevron type stitches.
I’m thinking as far as finishing this – I will work on it through July. Then I have it scheduled for August 6 – 10 and again September 11 (speaking of a changed world) – September 15. Maybe, hopefully, fingers crossed, I will be able to finish this by September 15.
Tracy says
-Once you finish the black box, the rest is easy. My current project, Heaven and Nature Sing, is about 80% finished. The big red house in the center took forever, but now I am completing a motif every time sit down to stitch. I am hoping to be done by the first week in August.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
You’re right. I love having something like all that black to stitch while we’re doing something else and I’m not paying a lot of attention. The remaining motifs are fun to stitch and I’m finding myself not wanting to put it down.