I spent 3 five-day sessions on A Stitching Shelf. (Artwork by Aimee Stewart, charting by Heaven and Earth Designs in the "regular" color but large format layout - purchased before I realized I wanted to use a PDF reader to work off of.) I had page 1 finished and I've been working on page 2.... slowly... like a glacier.....
I have this on tap to work on in May for at least 10 days as well in the hopes I might be able to get a page finish (unlikely, but hey! you never know.)
I put in almost no stitches on a travel project - A Bowl Full of Scaries from Plum Street Samplers. Seriously - I finished up the tree and started the second one, and started the snake border. I'm not sure why I think I'll be able to have the mental focus to work on stitching projects after a day on the trade floor, but I haul one along every.single.time. Clearly, however, I do not.
Nicely enough, my random number generator felt I should get a second crack at this one, so it's also on tap for next month for a 5-day rotation.
As usual, I did put in 5 days on my Desert Mandala from Chatalaine. I'm concentrating right now on the upper landscape section. I got the border mostly worked for that and started filling in some of the rocks - absolutely LOVING the colors in this one!
Finally, my handy-dandy random number generator picked Shoot the Moon for me to work on for the remaining 5 days of April. This is another Heaven and Earth charted piece, a mini with the background removed. I'm stitching it on a gradient hand-dyed evenweave using all the same color - 310 - for the stitches.
The fabric color is a bit washed out but I did get the central figure started this time around. Very happy with the progress on this one!
In May, I plan to work on:
- A Stitching Shelf (two 5-day rotations)
- A Bowl Full of Scaries
- Welcome Autumn
- Desert Mandala
- 12 Days of Christmas
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