Bring on the Stitching!

Yes, I feel a stitching weekend coming. This is a go-live weekend for work, so Terry will be busy. Fortunately, my deadline has been moved back by a few weeks, so I don’t need to work. I might choose to help them in any way I can, but then again I might not. 😉

At any rate, I am going to concentrate on stitching this weekend. That and weed extermination outside. I haven’t been weeding while it’s been hot (i.e. several weeks) and the weeds have grown out of control. So, I need to spend a couple of hours on my knees worshipping the gods of the garden. But, more importantly, I’m going to stitch.

My primary focus for stitching this weekend will be my Flight 93 quilt panel. It is taking forever to get a name onto this piece of 11 count aida with 3 strands of floss. I’ve never worked on 11 count aida before and it feels like an absolute monstrosity to me. Not to mention that 10 names are going to take more than the two full skeins of floss that I purchased for the project. I have 4 names completed already and I’ve started the 5th, so I’m nearly at the halfway point. I think I have roughly 10 hours left before I finish the piece. I think I’ll break it up a little bit by stitching a name, then putting in an hour or less on another piece before switching back to stitch another name. That way, I hopefully won’t get totally bored with the piece.

This week, as my traveling projects, I’ve been stitching up some quick little blackwork projects on fabric that I dyed last Friday night on a whim. The first two stitched up fairly quickly, but this third pattern I’m working is taking a lot longer. I’ll slot these in between names on the Flight 93 panel, I think, since I have 6 total that I want to get done. I might be convinced to take and share scans of the ones that are already done, once I get home. That way, maybe people won’t forget that I also stitch from time to time! 😀

In addition, I need to pull floss for the design I’m going to stitch on Catherine Michele’s round robin fabric that I received last week. I’ll hopefully get some stitches into this one, as well.

And finally, thanks to a friendly reminder from Heather, I need to pull all pending and intended Christmas projects out of my stash and bring them downstairs to my stitching area so that I can be constantly reminded that they are there and waiting to be worked on. 😆 While I’m at it, my mother has requested a good-sized tuffet pincushion (biscornu) for Christmas, so I have two different possible designs pulled for that, plus one on order from Bobbie at Stitching Bits & Bobs. I might stitch two for her, depending on what I decide. I’ll probably pick one of the existing designs that I have (in fact, I think I just made my choice) and kit it up for a later start.

I want to curb my startitis, if possible, and get some more stitches into the gifts that I’ve already started (including one for my mother that I started last year and the one for my grandmother that I just started last week). We’ll just see how successful I am… 😉