Forgot the photos

I am so sorry.  I meant to publish the photos this morning since I had a great sitting day yesterday.  IT had a lot of interruptions (husband, laundry, cats, meals, etc) but I racked up a fair amount of stitching time for once.

You can just scroll further down for some of the before photos if I forget to post them them.  These photos combine Maynia and the SAL.

First of all I have not found the "perfect" alphabet for Descending Order but I have narrowed it down somewhat.

Here goes in no particular order.

2020 Mystery Sampler

Two motif to the far right belong to May

2020 mystery overall as of 31 May 2020

Acorn Sampler as of 4 May

note the border

as of 30 May 2020

the borders have their acorns and flowers

more of the satin stitch inner border

you can also see the mistake

the hanging acorns on right are 1 stitch below the left

(also the middle leaves)

the reversed squirrels was on purpose

it's staying the way it is.

This is the last photo I found on Victorian heart

dated 5 May 2020

Here is it as of 30 May 2020

This is nearly done

To stretch it tight, it also went a little wonky

that will straighten out later.

St. Sylvestre

2 skeins of floss

May 4, 2020

St. Sylvester

sometime in mid May

Close-up

see the "outling" within the area

As of 30 May 2020

Almost there!

Walk the Beach

May 1, 2020

as of May 30, 2020

the start of a Shepherd's Bush small heart

And the finish.

And lastly - a new start

an on-line class thru ANG

Klimt

an early status photo.

it already need to be updated.

We are staying healthy but not normal.

We don't venture out much in order to be safe.

Besides some stitching I have read 19 book since the 1st of March

and gotten a great deal of genealogy done.

Take care of yourself.

SAL time again

It is SAL Sunday and time to check in on all those wonderful stitchers:

Avis, Claire, Gun, Carole, Sue, Constanze, Christina, Kathy, Margaret, Cindy, Heidi, Jackie, Sunny, Hayley, Megan, Deborah, Mary Margaret, Renee, Carmela, Jocelyn, Sharon, Daisy, Anne, Connie, AJ, Jenny, Laura, Cathie, Linda, Sherrie, Helen

As for me.  It's been a weird three weeks - definitely some stitching but just not what I expected.

SAL update

The SAL update is a bit late in the day.  Hopefully folks will look the day after as well.   Here goes - not the greatest Sal, actually quite slow.

The main piece - Descending Order

stays the same.  I still have not found a good alphabet that works.

Meanwhile

St. Sylvestre

goes on, slowly though due to stitch Maynia

2020 Mystery Sampler

this is Jan-Apr finished.

I have not started the May portion yet.

Acorn

Making progress

Walk the Beach

IT has made quite a bit of progress

however I need to decide to keep or redo the brown wave the words

Turns out there was a major error in the printing

The light colored beige in the checkboard and the brown

the symbols were reversed on the chart

I just found out this past week.

All because I found another error which I reported.

redo the waves or not, let me know

Tomorrow (monday) I will go back to posting Maynia

which for me is working on WIPs.  I actually have one finish so far

and another about to happen.  Some I want to keep working on, working on , etc

After all, my idea was to clean up some of my WIPs.

Meanwhile check out the rest of the SAL group.

Welcome back to Helen

Avis, Claire, Gun, Carole, Sue, Constanze, Christina, Kathy, Margaret, Cindy, Heidi, Jackie, Sunny, Hayley, Megan, Deborah, Mary Margaret, Renee, Carmela, Jocelyn, Sharon, Daisy, Anne, Connie, AJ, Jenny, Laura, Cathie, Linda, Sherrie, Helen

More Maynia

May 5

Autumn

Only photo I have of the cover.

where I left off at some point

And at the end of May 5, 2020

Autumn is complete

a finish!

No, it doesn't match the cover exactly, I had made a couple of changes

(before Maynia)

May 6

Victorian Heart

cover

where I started on the 6th

And where I ended after 1 hour and 15 minutes

Maynia update days 1-4, photo heavy

It's been busy here and warm and freezing.  Winter has come back.  I admit I am tired of cold weather - and I mean in the 20's and 30's.

May 1 - Walk the Beach.

the start of May 1

May 1 end of day

I found out the next day that the two symbols in the brown/beige blockwork is reversed

Which also means the "wave" thru Nothing and Walk are in the wrong color.

Not sure what I will do next about it.

Luckily I stitched on fabric instead of the silk gauze..

This is a brand new release and it bugs me.

May  2 brought 

The Stars of Merlin

This was the start - a number of years ago.

I'm pretty sure that I was irritated with the directions.

3 strands on 32 ct - it looked awful

bulky and like a big blob.

This was all ripped out and I started again.

It wasn't much better - turns out my fabric was actually 30 ct

didn't look so good with 1 strand

Now I am looking for a new fabric 32 or 36 ct.

same fabric, re-stitched

still blah.

May 3rd

A Stitch in Time

Cover sheet

start on Mat 3rd, 2020

end of day  May 3rd

Look carefully - there is a large amount of white background finished

Some green blocks on the left side

a few scattered green stitches

May 4

The Acorn

start

the end of the day  May 4th, 2020

note the two squirrels have been enlarged

the corners have their acorns

blackwork acorns are a the end of the alphabet, etc

And so goes the first 4 days.

More later

 Going a bit backwards here

And here, back even more.

Today is the start of May Mania for the stitching community.  It started (as best I know) as a new start for every day of May.  But it has morphed into many new versions.  My version includes WIPs. Here's my version (and hopefully I can keep to it):

I will work (i.e. stitch) at least one hour a day on a WIP.  A different one each day until I run out of WIPs or run out of days in May.

I will post before and after photos but not necessarily each day.  With the outside weather attempting to warm up, there is work to be done.  Earlier this week it was low 70's and sunny then suddenly switched to mid 40' and rainy and dreary ,etc.  It's May and you never know what the weather is bringing.