TUSAL 1207 and a Progress Pic

Combined! Yes, I'm late again with the TUSAL, but that's life. This one contains mostly Margaret's Monochrome Madness and some nearly invisible--because of lighting and position--strands from the pictured current project, Hannah Beeby.

I see also that we're about 2/3 of the way through the month and I never posted anything from the monthly stitch class. Well, here's MMM, before class:

...and after class:

For some reason, the upper photo is turned 90° to the right from the correct orientation. I finished the block at the lower right corner of the center motif, started and got about halfway on the one on the far right side in the vertical midpoint, and got the center motif started. It looks a lot closer to "done" than it actually is, as there's a honkin'-big-arse border to go around it, too. With beads.

TUSAL 120619

Three days late, but here it is, mostly Margaret's Monochrome Madness:

Today I'm away to Temecula for a stitching retreat. Eat your hearts out, suckers!

TUSAL 120421

A little more this month, since I tossed poor neglected Beatrix Potter aside for even more neglect and put Hannah Beeby in the floor stand. The golden browns are from Margaret's Monochrome Madness, while the greens are from Hannah.

TUSAL March

Another pathetic month. This one contains both Margaret's Monochrome Madness, from the stitch class earlier this month, as well as a few token bits from Beatrix Potter Quaker.

TUSAL January and February

It's been a slow year for stitching so far.
The first pathetic little pile is January's.

The second pathetic little pile is February's.

Slacking!

Large time!!

No cards this time, just a TUSAL catchup. Which, of course, includes a July redux.

TUSAL 2011 July

It's the new moon, again, and time to post the TUSAL (Totally Useless Stitch-A-Long). I spent all of June's monthly stitch class frogging a project. Yes, the whole entire project. There's a long story behind it I've told elsewhere, and maybe I'll tell it again here. Anyway, huge, unfixable counting error, so I'm frogging everything. I also wasn't happy with the overdyeds conversion I'd tried on this attempt at this particular piece, so I'll go back, when I restart, to the original DMC, with just one or two conversions. And on top of the curly little frog bits are the orts from Teresa Wentzler's "Carousel," which has been languishing, until recently, for a couple of years.
And yes, I know: I'm way behind on posting cards! So much for resolutions.

Welcome Home, Endeavour and TUSAL 2011 June

Mostly a gift piece, with a few strands from TW's "The Carousel," which I put back into the floor stand after the gift was finished. "The Carousel" hasn't seen any attention in a couple of years!

TUSAL 2011 May

Here it is: a bit of Hannah Beeby, a couple of ornaments (one for the ornament exchange and another to even off the space on the piece of fabric before cutting the ornaments apart to finish-finish them), and a special project.

TUSAL: The Third Moon

Things have been pretty hectic at work, so not a lot of progress on anything since the last new moon. The projects included are Hannah Beeby, Dazzle, and an ornament.

TUSAL 2011

If I remember right, we're supposed to post our photos on the new moon. Here's mine, although it's actually all of January's orts and not just from the new moon in January to the new moon in February. 'Course, that was only a few days!
Contained herein are orts from three projects: Hannah Beeby, the first of three ornaments for a private exchange, and a gift. And the random "whyever on Earth did I bother to keep a length of floss this short?" snippet.

It's Official!

I'm number 202 on the TUSAL list! Unfortunately, I think that means I need to find a moment or three to put the link in my sidebar, as well as keep track of the New Moons, since that's when we're supposed to post our TUSAL progress. Well, it gives me an extra reason to make sure I keep up with posting this year.

It's the beginning of a new year, and a lot of folks on assorted message boards and in various blogs are setting new goals. So what are mine for this year? I'm going to try to blog more, and post more photos of cards and stitchery. I've also decided to join my dear friend Terri in her goal to spend our monthly stitch class time working on pieces for which we're likely to need the teacher's assistance. Today before I left for class I hunted down a piece that's been languishing since before the LNS moved to its new location (a few doors down from an older location!). "Dazzle" was designed by Margaret Bendig, our class' teacher. I didn't think to take a progress pic before resuming this piece today (January 8). The center motif and 3 of the dark-green-and-shiny-stuff arms were done when I set this piece aside. So today I completed the 4th of those arms, as well as the light-colored motifs, and have begun the next segment at the end of each of the arms. For those of you familiar with DMC numbers, the dark floss and the middle value are in the 520 series of sagey greens; the lightest green is a Rainbow Gallery Mandarin floss (made from bamboo). And the canvas is a light sagey green.
I certainly won't be limited to counted canvas pieces in this endeavor, since I also have Margaret's "Spot Sampler" started and have an Ellen Chester class piece suffering neglect, both of which are primarily counted cross stitch.