Month 4 of the modern folk Embroidery SAL dropped and I immediately started on it. I knew last month that I have a big problem, in my excitement to start, I held the fabric the wrong way.
I fooled myself that it would all work out. Here I am realizing that it won’t.
I’m not halfway down the project
, I doubt I could get the two row in and have any fabric left over. I really want to frame this nicely. So guess what is happening. I am stopping here, I ordered more fabric and more floss and I am going to start over. So be it. I’ve learned from Knitting, if you are bothered by the mistake, go back and correct right away, otherwise, it won’t stop bugging you. In this case, I simply won’t be able to finish it. So back to the beginning. Meanwhile, I made plenty of mistakes here that I would have lived with, but I am so much better no, so the new project will have less mistakes. Not saying there won’t be any, there will be less.
I have this project to work on and I’m loving it. I put my initials in. If this survives 50 years will anyone know who L.K. is? Probably not, but for now, it is here.
How about this squirrel?
I should have ironed this, or at least steamed it, I didn’t. One thing I’m doing now is making sure the top part of the cross is flat. This is something I’ve learned from some floss-tuber on You Tube, my work is improving and I’m loving it.
This is the last quilt I made in a class in 2020. At Road to California. I’m at a point where I don’t need to keep every quilt I make. Even if I designed and did all the work. So a friend just had a granddaughter, and I shipped it off to her, but first…
I wanted to put the babies name on, in cross-stitch of course. Why I started from her last name and moved left, I have no idea, what I chose a complicated alphabet – dont know either. So This didn’t get far.
The original label as well as the name. Turns out her kids honeymooned in Hawaii, so this is extra special for them. I love it when things work out that way.
Much better choosing a small simple font. I am happy.
Leah