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Hi everyone - I'm Melissa, known as Measi online. I'm a married mom of one in her early 50s, owned by several cats, currently living in Rhode Island. I'm a cross-stitcher, journaler, penpaller, bookworm, Pagan, and gamer geek. This is my little corner of the Web.

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September Stitching Goals & Such
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General stuff first.  For August, I wanted to:

1) Finish Garden Sampler  I’m so flippin’ close on this. I’m guessing I have 5-10 hours left at most. It’s in my commuting bag, and I’ve been working on it every evening on the train. By Labor Day, oh yes… this will be done!
2) Finish my hours on Round 4 of the UFO RR and mail it off a week early  Yep. Done and has been received by the next participant.
3) Work 10 hours on Astrology Sampler (commute piece)  Done!
4) Work at least 5 hours on Floral Bellpull  Didn’t touch it.
5) Work at least 5 hours on Egyptian Sampler  Didn’t touch this, either.
6) Prep my piece for the new UFO RR starting September(ish).  It’s ready to go.

So not too bad. I’m happy. I just feel like I’m stalling a bit on some of my projects.

For September, I want to:

1) Really, truly finish Garden Sampler.
2) Stitch on all of my WIPs via a sprint rotation like I did in February’s Olympics.
3) Finish my stitching on Michelle’s RR piece
4) Mail my RR piece for the 2nd robin
5) Get my stitching room tidied up.
6) Plan my ornament stitching for this year.

So after a fruitful summer of stitching, I decided I needed to switch gears a bit for the autumn.  First, because while I’ve been stitching a lot – I’ve been really focusing on one or two pieces for the most part (ahem, Garden Sampler…) and neglecting everything else in my rotation.

And also because although I have been productive, I’m feeling in a bit of a rut and just need to shake things up a bit.

A few fellow stitchers and I are doing a “September Slump Stop” themed SAL, based roughly after National Novel Writing Month.  Whether it’s fashioned by the number of thread lengths you do, or the number of stitches per day, etc – the goal is essentially to stitch every day. 

My problem, of course, hasn’t been actually sitting to stitch, but on not rotating as I’d like.  So I’m being a bit fringey on this thing (me?  NEVER!) and came up with a method that goes along the theme of the SAL, but also gets my personal goals attached.  I decided that I really, really liked the “Sprint Rotation” that was used during the Stitching Olympics in February.  I honestly got a lot of stitching done using that method and touched a surprising number of my pieces.  So… this month, I’m doing the following:

  • 90 minutes per project (30 minutes per day minimum stitch time)
  • The only exceptions are round robin pieces, which will have 5 hour focuses each week to get my hours in.

I’m selecting from the following list of pieces (in any order) to accomplish this goal:

  • UFO RR (Michelle)
  • UFO RR (Lindsay)
  • Garden Sampler HD 9/5/10! 
  • Witchy Washy rotation done 9/8/10
  • Smoky Mountain Cats – going out on RR 9/13/10.
  • Cats on a Staircase
  • Apache Wedding Blessing
  • Egyptian Sampler
  • Floral Bellpull
  • Astrology Sampler
  • Legends of the Dragons
  • Spring Queen
  • Noah’s Ark
  • Walk in the Woods
  • Fantasy Triptych
  • Millennium
  • Elemental Dragon (Water)

The two crossed off are the ones I’ve already finished stitching this month.  I have Legends of the Dragons in my commute bag for this evening. 

As you can see by the notes, I’ve decided to send Smoky Mountain Cats out instead of Walk in the Woods for the new UFO RR that’s starting on Monday- mostly due to the response I got from my posting about a week back.  It’s an easy piece.  I may have a tweak to do when it gets back to me (or maybe I’ll fix it this weekend if I have time).  The counts are fine – but I think I may have stitched it with 2 rather than three threads when I first started it ages ago, then switched to the correct 3.  I’m going to take a look at it tomorrow evening and see what’s what.   It’s one of those pieces I started during a rough phase, I suppose – I have a lot of weird little things in the pieces I started ten years ago.  I’m not sure what was going on, to be honest.

I made my hotel reservations yesterday – so I’m now set to go for Stitcher’s Hideaway in October. I cannot wait – I’ve never been to any sort of formal stitching thing before. :) Mystic’s only about an hour from home (if I follow the speed limits), but I decided to just go and stay there. That way I can hang out in the evening with everyone and not worry about traffic issues in the morning getting down there.

Photos coming soon!

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