Stitching While Pondering

I have to admit that I'm somewhat tired after last night's "hair" marathon.  So tonight I decided to do "simple" while pondering the elephant on the desk and where I should go from here.

This is my Valentines House that I took on vacation in May.  I always seem to come home from vacation with my needlepoint not quite done.  This grass is so easy it's almost like cheating.  I like the beads on the roof line.

And here's the elephant on the desk.  I'm just not sure which section to tackle next.  So I ponder.  But one must stitch while one ponders 😄  I'm liking that hair on witch #2 more and more!

Where I Go Off the Amy Reservation

Today I decided to go "back in time" to lesson 1 and put in some grass along the path.  I have resisted doing this because it involves random stitching, but if I am ever going to finish this, the grass has to be done.  There's a lot more to do...but it's started.  Seems like there is grass EVERYWHERE. There's green grass, yellow grass and more green grass...

Then, there was witch #2 with twisted lazy daisy hair.  I have worried about this since I got the stitch guide in 2015.  Tonight I gave it the old college try - 2 hours of it - and decided that I was officially going OFF the stitch guide.  If this looks a lot like witch #4 well I'm going to have to deal with it.  My hair looks tons better this way.  As you can see I started out with french knots and went rogue.  Hey it's better than tent stitch which I guess I didn't need to do.

I'm getting down to the painful part of this project so I have no idea what I'll attempt to do next 😆

Wish me luck!

Sunday Progress Report

Hi there,

Those squiggles are "bead bridges" on the black cape.  No kidding - everything about this piece is over the top.

After that,  I went on to finish the jack o lanterns.  She is holding the 6th one and since I have completed the hill, I did the little pumpkins too.

And her hand - there was a brief panic when I couldn't find the cream thread.  I had to double check that I put in 5 fingers.

I then managed to cut the one pom pom I had in half correctly! (As in straight across rather than crooked)  I decided I had ONE shot at the bullion since I'm not sure I would have been able to take it out from the pompom to re-do it without messing it up. And who knows where I would get another one of those?  So the little cat pull toy is done.

This week I am going to do her hair and her hat and move on to the sections that I skipped.  Which are probably the worst and hardest ones!  I do see a light at the end of this tunnel!!

Have a great week!

The Week of the Black Cat

Hi there,

This is what I finished last night.  I just HAD to put the buttons on the cart!  Next up is the striped blanket with the pumpkin on top and the highlights on his fur.

Happy Wednesday!

And So It Begins AGAIN

This was where I left off 2 years ago! and so I will start here and work backwards until it's complete.  This Home Study had 8 lessons which were supposed to take 1 month of work each.  It's hard to keep up that kind of momentum for 8 months, but I've had a nice long break.

This lesson (#8) was the final witch and the cat pull toy - the cat is being pulled by the witch with the green dress.  I'm going to give myself the month of August to finish this lesson and maybe some wrap-up on previous lessons.

Should be fun!

One Final Photo

Sunday wrap-up and Moving On

Hi there,

This is the last flower (bud).  I re-did this at least 4 times this morning until I realized that if I didn't quit I would run out of thread.  So I'm just going to do a little fill in and call it a WRAP!

One more bird and this is off to the framer - OH YEAH!

And then I am going back to the Pumpkin Parade!

Hope everyone has a wonderful week!