You know how I love making plans and apparently how I love not keeping those plans . . I have to make some changes in my cross stitching plans. Changing projects often I find myself spending more time searching for what I plan to work on next or figuring out where I want to start stitching. Even though I feel like I’m somewhat organized with my stitching plans, yesterday was a day of chaos.
I had talked to Denise briefly about getting more stitching done on Farmhouse Christmas and I really want to finish it but I seem to want to stitch other things more – mainly because I’m using two strands on Farmhouse Christmas and I don’t enjoy that at all, and second, it was one of the first pieces I started stitching and there are many mistakes to work around. But, once I put the Year/Day project away, I loaded Farmhouse Christmas on the stitching stand and then . . where is the project bag? It has the charts and the floss in it. Could not find it anywhere and I spent way too much time searching. I gave up and decided to get back to work on Prairie Life Sampler. I had taken the project bag out because I thought about starting back to working on it before I decided to start on Farmhouse Christmas. I guess that while I had way too many project bags out looking for the missing one, when I put them all away, I grabbed the Prairie Life Sampler bag and put it away too. Figured that out and I was ready to start but as I was stitching, I was thinking about the craziness of all these projects I have going.
My plan for at least the next few months – probably through the end of summer when the work in the garden slows down is this: I will have four active projects going:
- Teresa Kogut releases the installments for her current SAL on the 15th. I will spend probably two or three days working on that. With the first two installments, there are parts of buildings. I don’t want to stitch a part of a building and wait til next month to finish it so I’ll work on what I can but not start anything partial – no partial building, no partial animals, no partial signs, etc.
- The Leap Year project – I will work on it from the 29th through the end of the month.
- I will keep two focus type projects going. For March, it will be Prairie Life Sampler and This I Know. I plan to stick with those two until they are finished so they could last a while.
- I will keep one more project – something small that I can work on in a hoop. I may stitch once a month with a group of local stitchers and I need something portable that I can see so it will probably be something on 32 or 36 count, something with fewer colors so I can use Flower floss and not have to use two strands. I’m not counting that as an active project because I probably won’t work on it at home much (if ever) but it’s something that will stay in a bag and I’ll take it when I’m stitching away from my magnifying lamp.
I’m hoping this will help me spend less time swapping out projects and work towards completing a few more projects.
cfunliu says
I’ve mentioned several time on my blog that I reserve the right to change my mind where my stitching and sewing plans are involved. Just today I put the quilt blocks I was working on last week into a plastic bin and then stumbled across another quilt project that is at least 12 years old, and today it totally entranced me and I sewed and cut out a bunch more blocks. I didn’t think I was going to get hooked on the Summer Schoolhouse series but I’ve worked on it several days is a row and I am loving where it is going…. too many projects… too little time… and I’m not even gonna think about when I can work in the yard. Last frost is supposedly Mother’s day but the last couple of years it hasn’t been that late and I’ve got stuff in the group by the end of April… which I am itching to do… happy stitching!
judy.blog@gmail.com says
I think we all have the right to change our mind about things, especially when it doesn’t affect anyone but us. In the garden, so far I’ve planted peas that are ok with a frost, lettuce, kale,and onions. I have seeds started in the greenhouse but we’ll bring them in the garage on cold nights because it’s too expensive to keep the greenhouse warm for just a few plants.