• Saturday, September 26th, 2009
I spent yesterday morning organizing all of my stitching projects and making a list of all of my charts, kits, etc. I’m fairly sure I’m still missing a stack somewhere, but all but one of the “works in progress” have been found and documented. It’s not like I don’t have enough to work on without those missing charts – 29 projects either with stitches in them or all kitted up and ready to go (eep!). So I’ll eventually find those charts and add them to the batch I’ve gone through.
To start, I’m going to do a 5-hour rotation to work through several projects, including both the small projects that have me excited to stitch again (i.e. allowing myself new starts) and also some of the large projects that I’m interested in finishing at some point, but need a slow warm-up to get back into. Teresa Wentzler projects in particular take a certain rhythm due to their complexity. Once I’m in the zone with them, I’m fine, but I need to get into that zone.
My other problem was that because I love Teresa’s patterns so much, I have a bunch of them in progress – and they’re all huge, huge pieces. Literally hundreds of hours of work can go into them. I need some small pieces so I have the satisfaction of completed works once in a while – and that’s where the new starts are coming in.
So Rotation #1, five hours each is:
1. Elemental Dragons – Spirit by Dragon Dreams
2. Cats on a Staircase stocking by Bucilla
3. Egyptian Sampler by Teresa Wentzler
4. Star Wars Sampler – personal drafting, based off of a sampler found atHandEyeMindMouth New start
5. Apache Wedding Blessing by Kooler Design
6. Floral Bellpull by Teresa Wentzler
7. Astrology Sampler by Witches Stitches New start
8. Ornament for swap New start
#8 is something I don’t have to commit to until early November, so we’ll see how it goes, but for now it’s in the lineup.
On non-stitching stuff, Matt and I took a drive down to North Kingstown to the farm stand for pie and cooking supplies – it was a gorgeous day (and today looks even better). My tomatoes are slowing down, and I’m now making salsa and sauce to use them before they go bad. Fresh pesto is also on today’s cooking plans thanks to a couple basil plants that went haywire in August – I can’t let it all die off, of course!
There was talk of going to the Mendon Drive-In tonight for the final night of the theater’s season, but we’ll see. I’ve felt a bit under the weather since cleaning the outer surface of the basement fridge the other day (mold reactions… whee.) I feel okay now, but know that as the day goes on, I’ll feel… less fine.
It’s been a good vacation, I think! Quite a bit done, still stuff to do, but I have another long weekend coming in a couple weeks with Columbus Day, and I still have a few vacation days to play with this year – I may take some other long weekends off.
Ornament/Support Stacie craftiness (undecided)
