This year I decided to invite FB friends to join me live as I posted and several people did so. Quite a few are stitching today as it is the actual Solstice today. I was out of town so I had to do it a day early. Kaye in the Southern Hemisphere stitched on just one project as it is their Shortest Day.
So where did I start? By getting all the projects out and putting them on the bed:
You can see that I like to keep my fabric rolled in tubes, the long ones are wrapping paper tubes.
The first project was my 10-a-Day, Just Nan's Spring in the Square:
Followed by my 30-a-Day, Just Nan's Royal Blossoms:
Then I moved onto my 30 minute rotation. Each 30 minute slot included getting the project out, photographing the before picture, stitching, photographing the after picture and loading onto Facebook. So there's less than 30 minutes of actual stitching on each one.
Here we go with Project 3 at 9.00am:
Happy Hallowe'en by Imaginating
Stitched the L
Project 4 at 9.30am:
Witches by Oberlin Samplers
Started the W
Project 5 at 10.00am
The Stitcher's Alphabet by Brooke's Books
Stitched the border for X
Project 6 at 10.30am
The Enchanted Alphabet by Lavender & Lace
Started the M
Elevenses!
Project 7 at 11.00am
Gardens of London by Chatelaine
Stitched some background
Project 8 at 11.30am
The Discworld Mappe by Lyndisfarne Designs
Stitched some land!
Project 9 at 12.00 noon
Little Snapdragon by Kustom Krafts
Stitched some wing
Project 10 at 12.30pm
Dragon of the Winter Moon by Dragon Dreams
Stitched some Kreinik spines
Lunch
Project 11 at 1.30pm
Mermaid by Joan Elliott
Stitched an arm
Project 12 at 2.00pm
Gathering Eggs by Nora Corbett
Stitched more sleeve
Project 13 at 2.30pm
Memories by Just Nan
Stitched some pink flowers
Project 14 at 3.00pm
Faces Mystery SAL by Joan Elliott
Stitched more ribbon and some leaf
Project 15 at 3.30pm
My Lovely Sewing Tools by Marie Suarez
Stitched some cream border
Project 16 at 4.00pm
Coffee Fairy by Yiota
Filled in some coffee
Project 17 at 4.30pm
Art Nouveau Head by the Craft Collective
Stitched some brown
Project 18 at 5.00pm
Bande des Dragons by Dessins DHC
Stitched some red scroll
Teatime, forgot to take a photo!
Project 19 at 7.00pm
Spring Sampler with motifs from The Samplermakers
Stitched some green leaves
Project 20 at 7.30pm
English Transitional Sampler by The Scarlet Letter
Some Holbein Stitch
Project 21 at 8.00pm
Around the World in 80 Stitches by Papillon Creations
Stitched some green border
Project 22 at 8.30pm
NOEL by Ernie Bishop
Stitched some more of the O
9.00pm - Storytime with The Large Boy, reading Science of the Discworld III
Project 23 at 9.45pm
Autumn Tree from an old Yahoo Group
Stitched five eyelets just to say I worked on this one!
Project 24 at 10.00pm during the Small Boy's bath
12 Days of Christmas by Joan Elliott
Stitched some green leaves in the border
Apologies for the poor quality of some of the photos. Some were from my iPad and some were just "point and click, move on to the next one".
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Today is the posting day for Kerry's Theme-tas-Stitch too, which is:
Jardin June - Venture outdoors and put some stitches in a piece which has a garden or floral theme.
Several of my projects fit this theme. Project 1, 2, 7, 9, 13, 19 and 21 to be precise! I have also completed and framed a beautiful garden design since the last Theme-tas-Stitch post and gave it to my friend today.
Gathering Honey by Jannlynn Designs!
My friend loved it and said she hadn't forgotten she'd asked me to stitch it for her but thought I had! So she was really pleased to see that I hadn't.
Finally, I really enjoyed the Stitching Marathon and it was lovely to have people stitching and commenting along with me. It was so nice to get some of the older projects out again. Some are mammoth pieces and will take years to finish while others could be done in a week or two. But then there are my active WIPs already in the rotation! So much to think about and plan. I will definitely be doing this again next year anyway. So make your plans now to join me!
