I'm more optimistic that I might finish this project by my target date - June 15. I've gotten a lot done the last two days. Isn't that pretty? I'll be paying more attention to charts that have rice stitches from now on. They are fun to make! I'm wanting this middle row and the partial blocks on the top and bottom to be a bit lighter in color but there aren't many light colors in this ...
How Do I Cross Stitch?
A reader left a comment - she's fairly new to stitching and asked some questions so I thought I would answer them here instead of writing a very long comment. Remember that I've only been stitching just a little over three years. I'm fairly self-taught so there's a lot I do not know (or think I know and am wrong!). I will try to cover not only the questions asked but also the questions I had ...
Thy Love Divine – More Progress
It seems that no matter what my plans for the day are, I never get started stitching til about 5 p.m. If we go to town and shop or have appointments, I don't get started til around 5. If I get up, thinking I'll be stitching by 10 a.m., I don't get started til 5 p.m. The dogs are usually needy because I've either been upstairs cooking, doing laundry, cleaning, or we've been gone or I've been out ...
Brotherly Love
Oscar and Cooper . . it continues. They play/fight and they get tired, snuggle up together and sleep, wake up, play/fight, get tired . . it goes on all day. Yesterday afternoon they were both so tired. Oscar was actually getting quite grumpy with Cooper. You can see they kinda have their front paws like they're hugging but Oscar is showing his teeth; you can see Cooper's teeth but he was ...
Thy Love Divine Progress
So many times in my life I have struggled with something like knitting socks or even a quilt design - struggled a lot and gave up but every time that I can recall, when I went back to that project, whatever I was struggling with seemed very easy and most often, quite enjoyable. When I put Thy Love Divine away probably in 2021, I was struggling with the rice stitch. It wasn't so much that I ...
Next Project
I should be able to get this project finished within a couple of weeks. It's Thy Love Divine by Hands Across the Sea Samplers. I started it in April, 2021 when I had only been back to stitching for about 4 months. Every year I say I'm going to have it finished and framed by our anniversary so maybe it can be done this year. There are a lot of rice stitches left but those are kind of mindless once ...