So, I was a dork and somehow didn't notice that yesterday was the 10th until today (the 11th). Sheesh. Where has my brain gone? So I'm a day late in my Turtle Trot check-in, but as they say, better late than never.
I did 7/10 projects this month, so not too bad. Two of my WIPs that my goal is to finish through Turtle Trot didn't get worked on at all, and one of my new starts did not get started. But here is what I managed to finish.
The WIP I did get to work on was Tree Frog Trio:
I managed to completely finish the light green on the left frog and start on some of the darker green in his legs:
Britannia Pillow was a completely new start. This is going to be huge when it's finished, it's on 20 count evenweave, and it's also my first project on evenweave. Yikes! Here's what the start looks like so far:
Gingerbread Houses is a SAL I joined last year on Facebook. Despite my best intentions and completely kitting it up back in November, I didn't get anything done until January. Here's where the start is so far:
I can't remember the actual name for this project, but in my head I've dubbed it Purple Paisley. This is my first time buying colored aida that didn't come from Charles Craft, and I have to say I love the texture of it so far. I managed to get part of one chunk of purple done so far. The thread looks variegated in this photo, but it's actually DMC 210 and is all one color.
This is a gift I'm planning on stitching for my mother, one I've dubbed Polka Dot Bouquet. I managed to get one color green on one long leaf done in January.
Reindeer Square and it's companion piece Polar Bear Square are new starts for 2015 as well. These are part of the six Christmas Cuties designs Maria Diaz did for Enjoy Cross Stitch many years ago. I only really liked the Reindeer and Polar Bear designs, so I will only be doing these two for now.
So that's it for Turtle Trot this month! We'll see how things look come March 10th. You can keep you with my progress throughout the year by checking the Turtle Trot page.
Side question for those of you who blog and are doing the Turtle Trot yourself. Specifically if you have a Turtle Trot page set up. Are you updating the page with your progress once a month, or as you go along? Are you keeping your beginning 2015 pictures up, or just showing the new progress? Still trying to decide what to do with my page, and I could use the advice...
Side question for those of you who blog and are doing the Turtle Trot yourself. Specifically if you have a Turtle Trot page set up. Are you updating the page with your progress once a month, or as you go along? Are you keeping your beginning 2015 pictures up, or just showing the new progress? Still trying to decide what to do with my page, and I could use the advice...
Nice progress Alyssa. I have a turtle trot page but I only put the beginning picture on there with what the finished piece looks like. Each month I just show a before and after pic on my post. It would be nice if you could put a picture on your TT page as to what they will look like when finished.
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Great progress! I have a TT page and what I've done is use the model photo as the first photo and my current progress as the second photo. http://tiffstitch.blogspot.com/p/turtle-trot-2015.html if you want to check it out. I'm updating whenever I think of it, but not anything regimented.
ReplyDeleteGreat starts! Look forward to seeing more!
ReplyDeleteI love how all of your projects are relatively new, that way, we'll get the pute pleasure of seeing them grow from start til end :) Great work so far!
ReplyDeleteYou are a stitching fiend. Ok, am I understanding that you work with Aida only? If I weren't so lazy, I'd have taken a photo of my beaded ornament kit that I'm working on. Thanks for the advice - I'm really pleased with how it's coming along...I've only got two more bead colors left and then......it's time to cut away the excess paper (gasp). I'm impressed with how quickly you're able to stitch up these designs....your perfume bottle seemed to appear as if by magic - are you sure it's not filled with Love Potion #9???
ReplyDeleteYeah, aida is mostly what I've worked with simply because that's what I learned on and am most comfortable with. I've done Mill Hill projects on perforated paper before, and plan to do several Brooke's Books designs in the future that are done on perforated paper. I've also done plastic canvas, which is very simliar to the paper. However, the Britannia Pillow project I just started in January is on evenweave, so it's my first time doing that (scary!) and one of the projects I just got for the next Frosted Pumpkin round robin I'm doing is on linen, which is looking more scary than the evenweave.
DeleteIntriguing new starts! Evenweave and linen are not too difficult once you get into the swing of stitching over 2.
ReplyDeleteIt's going to be fun watching these blossom!
ReplyDeleteYour trot is trotting along~ :D I'm having a hit-or-miss experience with the evenweave. Just gotta force my brain into skipping a hole haha. I also learned on Aida and it's what I think of first when starting a project. I do really like hardanger though.
ReplyDeleteI haven't been brave enough to try hardanger yet!
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