We're several days into the Olympics, so I've been working hard on my Stitchlympics and Summer Olympic Challenge pieces.
Apologies in advance for some of the photos. For some reason my phone has been taking really bad pictures lately.
Day 1 was the Opening Ceremonies. The Stitchlympics challenge was to count your stitches while watching the opening ceremonies (or equivalent time). I happened to DVR the ceremonies (yay for fast forwarding through commercials and the Parade of Nations!) so we actually watched a couple finals from American Ninja Warrior while I stitched on my Disney piece for the Round Robin (BTW, Linda I know you asked for the name of the pattern/designer, I'm trying to find out for you!). I was able to stitch 213 stitches and finish off Aladdin's hair:
The Stitch Maynia Summer Olympic Challenge was to stitch on something blue (for the blue in the Olympic Rings). Not a lot of blue available in my Disney project, so after finishing Aladdin's hair I also started a new project I'm calling Welcome Home. That's where the rest of my 200+stitches came from. This will be a square for World of Charity Stitching:
Not much to look at yet, just some blue highlights. With only two colors and very minimal backstitch, it should stitch up pretty quick though.
Day 2 of Stitchlympics was a 15 minute stitching "sprint" to see how much you could stitch in 15 minutes. To maximize my chances I decided I should stitch on a single color block, so I chose to start the orange of Lady's face from the Disney project:
51 stitches after 15 minutes. Not bad. :) The Stitch Maynia challenge for Day 2 was to stitch on something with an international theme. I only had about 15 minutes to stitch on Saturday because we had company over so I decided to fudge and also count the Disney project for that one as well. Hey, the characters are from international locations, right?
Day 3 of Stitchlympics was a 3 hour stitching marathon. I pulled out the Disney project again and finished up Lady and started on Ariel's hair:
There's a lot of hair! The other challenge for this day was to stitch on something with yellow (again for olympic rings). Sadly I failed at this one. I just didn't feel like pulling out any other projects because I wanted to focus on the Disney piece. Oh well, I did stitch orange on Lady; that's in the yellow family, right?
Day 4 of Stitchlympics was another "sprint" stitch, this time a 30 minute sprint "relay". I managed 101 stitches on Ariel and almost finished her in my 30 minutes:
The Maynia challenge for Day 4 was to stitch something with water in it, so I stretched a bit again and figured my Ariel mermaid counted for a water challenge. So after the 30 minutes was up for Stitchlympics I finished up the last little bits of Ariel and completed her:
Since I was so close to finishing my part of this piece completely, I decided to spend a few extra minutes for the single stitches I'd been kind of leaving until the last minute (eyebrows, cheeks, etc). Would you believe it took about 30 minutes to put in about 20 stitches? Gah, I hate changing colors. But it made a difference. Here's what my part looked like when all finished:
Day 5 was yesterday which was left handed stitching for Stitchlympics and a piece with black in it for Stitch Maynia. Sadly I had a flare up of pain in my left elbow which made stitching difficult, so I don't have any progress to report for that. So my brother and I and a friend went to see Suicide Squad instead. :) But it's feeling a bit better today, so I'm hopefully I'll have something to share for Day 6.
Here's wishing you all lots of stitchy progress! I plan on making much more as I keep watching over the next couple weeks.
Great work meeting all the challenges!
ReplyDeleteYou are one speedy stitcher Alyssa. Your section looks awesome. Sure hope you can get the name and designer for me.
ReplyDeleteLinda
Hooray for your progress! I still love the disney project, and I think that with the orange filled in, Lady's ears look much less red now :)
ReplyDeleteGreat progress! How did you like the movie? I would have stitched Disney for blue too...it's on blue fabric ;)
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