Stitch Along Update – @08-Mar-2015

So can you stand it?  I actually remembered to contribute my update to the SAL!  I’m not sure what my problem is sometimes.  I get a reminder a few days before the deadline from our trusty leader, Avis, but I keep missing the updates.  I think the kids are right – I’m losing it, slowly but surely.

So, here is the progress I’ve made on the Bear and Balloons blanket.  Here’s where I was at the last update I attended:

And here we are today!

I’m glad there are large patches of solid color – makes it easy to progress.  Still haven’t touched that bear!

I do wish I had more of a sense of adventure.  I keep thinking I’d like to change up the colors of those balloon strings, but I hate to change up the pattern.  I feel a certain obligation to the pattern maker to complete it as intended.  But that blue string just isn’t the color I would have chosen, if I had designed this pattern!  Such a rule follower, I would be!

Seems like many of us have more than one project going at once.  I wanted to take a moment to share the start I’ve made on the 12 Days project.  My original plan was to work one pane a month, so that by this Christmas, I would have the entire project complete.

Like all good of my plans, this one has fallen a bit behind schedule.  But I am so glad I actually started.

The First Day of Christmas is a Ruffed Grouse in a Pear Tree.

I have a question.  I’m watching many of your projects, and many of you complete your design line by line, I’m guessing you use many needles with threads tucked somewhere.  I’ve always stitched an area by color.  I guess there’s no real right way, but for those of you who have tried both methods, which do you prefer?  I guess there’s a lot more counting my way, and I may try the line by line method just to see for myself.

Or maybe I’m doing it all wrong!

Please check the progress of all the ladies in the SAL – you can find their links over on the right!