It's Pi day!

SAL TIME

 Hard to believe how fast the past three weeks have gone.  I can't say I got a lot of stitching in.  It seemed like I was always frogging.  There was an area I did three times before I got it right,  But I have plugged away at Do DIfferent.

My camera wasn't as nice to me though.  I emailed myself the photo for the day at 10 am and it just arrived at nearly 8 pm.  My phone/camera has been doing that a lot lately.

This is last time

Today's update

As you can tell, I worked on the big floral area

in the four corners but I didn't 

get the 4th corner completed.

Don't forget the look at the other stitchers' beautiful stitching.

Avis, Claire, Gun, Constanze, Christina, Kathy, Margaret, Cindy, Heidi, Jackie, Sunny, Megan, Deborah, Carmela, Sharon, Daisy, AJ, Cathie, Linda, Helen

Just a quickie update on Pandemic

 

 It's SAL time

Make sure you visit everyone for great photos of their projects.

Avis, Claire, Gun, Constanze, Christina, Kathy, Margaret, Cindy, Heidi, Jackie, Sunny, Megan, Deborah, Renee, Carmela, Sharon, Daisy, AJ, Cathie, Linda, Helen

And here is Do Different 3 weeks ago:

and today

Feb 20, 2022

This is where I concentrated my efforts

the right side

and the horizontal strip above the words

The last three weeks have been cold outside and snowy

so I stayed home more and stitched more.

Not sure which section is next.

Happy Stitching!

 Feb 13, 2022 was the start of the #100dayproject for 2022.  I'm a bit behind in posting.

Here's an overall of my project.

It's a Laurel Burch canvas

Day 1 close-up  (Feb 13

Day 2 - Feb 14

Day 3 - Feb 15

close-up from the other end of the design

Day 4 - Feb 16

close up

This morning I decided the first stitch is not working.

I like the second stitch better.

Feel free to comment.

the rest of the face will be a lot of bargello

Need to go look for the fancy triangles at the LNS

stay tuned for more.

Thanks heavens it doesn't have to be my only project

nor is there a timeframe of minutes/hours per day

Keep stitching!

 I was asked about my colors in Do Different.  One is obvious -Black.  The other two are a varigated/overdyed red by DMC and a solid red - DMC 814.

I started out want a lot of red and a little black.  Somewhere in the last few weeks I realized it would look too unbalanced and the black might get lost so I opted to do the middle of the two sides all in black.  AS for the rest - I looked at the motifs in an area and decided if would look ok in shades of red or not.  I realized that it only worked for the larger areas.  The smaller areas / blocks looked better in a solid red where you could see what it was instead of an area of muddled threads.  I also played with the varigated thread to pull out some really dark parts and some really bright, lighter areas.  

I hope that answered the questions.  If not, leave a comment please.

Stay warm!

 It's time for a SAL update.  Make sure you also check out the other stitchers as well.

Avis, Claire, Gun, Constanze, Christina, Kathy, Margaret, Cindy, Heidi, Jackie, Sunny, Megan, Deborah, Renee, Carmela, Sharon, Daisy, AJ, Cathie, Linda, Helen

MY piece is called Do Different by Long Dog Samplers.  Here is last SAL's update

and this is today:

A bit wrinkled and some progress

left side

right side

Sorry about all the wrinkles.

See on the right side in the new area there is a large flower/clover.

I stitched most of this and then had to rip it out.

I did the same thing on the other side.  I guess I didn't learn how to count

the first time.

part way thru the tipping out process

Yes, I cleaned the area before re-stitching.

This is the corrected motif.  

 

I hate to frog my stitching!

Keep warm everyone.  We are preparing for lots of snow

this week and some sub-degree temps as well.

Hopefully some extra stitching time.