As of Monday night, I’m now pretty much at the halfway mark with my current model set. Woohoo!
I came to the a couple of realizations today. The first is that I haven’t been posting much stitching-related news. I feel bad about that, but since my focus has been on unpublished models, I can’t share my progress, as exciting as it may be. 🙂 The second realization came directly on the heels of the first because, in figuring out that I haven’t been posting must stitching stuff lately, I realized that I haven’t stitched anything for me in several months.
Don’t get me wrong, I stitch the monthly ornament for the JCS ornament SAL I’m part of, but 9 months into it, you start to realize that it’s more like obligation stitching than “me” stitching. It’s often a fun little diversion, but they’re usually fairly quick and I won’t keep the end results, so it really doesn’t count. Except for this month. This month is one of the two ornaments that I’ve been waiting all year to stitch. This month is The Sweetheart Tree’s Merry Christmas Bellpull Ornament. And I decided that, instead of waiting until I had completed the model stitching assignment, I needed a little break, so I started it last night.
So there, some stitching progress. I’ll even try to do a quick scan of my very minimal progress so far at some point this week. Maybe my new rule for this month should be model stitching only on the weekends. That way, I stand some chance of actually finishing the other items on my list for this month. 😉
speaking of ornaments ….. Isn’t the next Ornament magazine due out soon? I saw a photograph of the front cover …. have not heard from the LNS if it arrived.