Long time, no post!

Gosh!  Has it really been that long since I updated this blog.  How time flies as you get older!  I see that my last post also coincided with when my summer work hours started and my stitching, and computing, time got messed up.  My stitching time has been limited to weekends for 2-3 months, during the week I've just been too tired to sit down and do anything but read in the evening, and that makes me fall asleep :-)

Anyway,  I've FINALLY got a picture of my WIP.  This is Day & Night by Long Dog.  It's a very colorful design as you can see and easy to stitch.  The only problem is that the chart symbols are VERY tiny and I'm having to enlarge each section, not something I normally have to do. Other than that, so far so good!

You can see a picture of what it will look like finished further down this page.  We go back to regular 8-5 hours on August 16 and hopefully then I will get some time to stitch on weekday evenings.

Altengamme is finished!

As I said in my last post, I ripped out the bottom border and redid it.  Didn't take as long as I thought it would and I put the final stitches in this on Tuesday night.  So pleased to have this finished and now I need to get it mounted on foam core so I can have it framed.

Last night I pulled out another long time UFO, Day & Night from Long Dog Samplers.  I was very tempted to start on Quakers and Quilts but decided to give this UFO a try first.

This is what that one will look like and I'll post my progress when I've taken a picture. At the moment I've done the top border and 3 motifs down on the left border, and one on the right. Long way to go!

Good news and bad news

Well, I finally finished Altengamme last night, whooo hoooo!  That's the good news.  It's finished BUT I am going to rip out the bottom border and do it again.  I made a one row counting error on the left, fixed it (sort of) and figured I wouldn't notice and it would be OK.  Well, I got all the way over to the right hand side and decided that it does bother me.  No one else would probably care or notice but I decided it would always bug me and so I'm going to rip it out and do over.  It shouldn't take that long to do but it will delay taking a picture of the finished product. 

So, stay tuned......

Altengamme update

As you can see, not much further to go!  After tonight, I won't be able to stitch on this until the 18th, when I get back from the conference and convention I have to go to this week.  It's possible I could get something done Wednesday night, we'll see how tired I am! I should finish the started motif and perhaps do another one this evening.  Also, I think I'm going to run out of the green thread so I'll have to make a run to the LNS.  I thought when I picked up the last one I'd got enough but I can't see what I have left being enough to finish.

An interim update

I've been trying to find time to take a new picture because I've done quite a bit more since this picture was taken. Well, it's been a crazy week one way and another, although I have got a little bit of stitching time in.  I've now finished that last large diamond and have done 3 "satellite" small motifs since this picture was taken.  There's not much left to do now, relatively speaking, but I'm not going to be able to stitch on this for a whole week starting Sunday because of travel.  I think I'm definitely on track to finish this by the end of April....whoo hoo!

Still plugging away!

I've now moved over to the bottom left and I completed this diamond and the two small motifs to the right. The small triangle is the start of another motif which will be along the bottom border. 

As you can see, I've started the next triangle.  I was working more on this one last night. While it is centered under the motif above (which is the way it's supposed to be) I discovered it was one stitch closer to the small diamond under the rose flower. After counting and counting I remembered that I had to make an adjustment further up in the design, but because it's been a few years I'd forgotten. Anyway, it's going to have to stay as it is, no one will know but me :-)  As I've mentioned before, lots of chart errors on this design, and some are more challenging to fix than others, but with the random placement adjustments won't be noticed in the finished piece.

Not much further to go now, finishing this is now my top priority!

Finished another motif and row

Another motif is done and it completed the row. This was a nice and easy one although again there were errors.  I hope I used the correct colors because the flower centers had two different symbols, half were for green and the other half for rose, I just did what I thought looked best!

Now I've gone back over to the left hand side to work on the diamond, this will be the last big row and then all that's left is small motifs along the bottom and the border.

The end is in sight!

Finished another motif

I finished another motif last night, this is the last of the large ones. There were some major chart errors in this one. A large chunk of the red "flower" was missing, on all four of them.  Some of the errors don't look obvious until you finish and then take a critical look at it.

I've now moved to the right and I'm doing the last circle motif.  I started this last night and it's moving pretty quickly. It shouldn't take as long to do as the last two.  I think I'll then do a bit of the border and move back over to the left hand side.

The end is in sight!

Here is the one I just completed side by side with the previous motif.

Still stitching!

I'm sorry it's been a while since I updated.  I took this picture last weekend and am just now getting around to updating my blog.  I have a determination to finish Altengamme but I think it will take a while, however the end IS in sight.  I've finished the motif that was shown partially completed in the last photo, and also the very small one under the diamond. I've now moved over to the right to start on the next large one you can see partially done.  I've actually worked quite a bit more on that since the photo was taken.  I will take another photo at the weekend but for now this is it!

Weekend away

I haven't done any stitching since Friday night.  I had to go to a meeting out of town over the weekend; left Saturday morning and returned Sunday evening.  By the time I'd unloaded my car, fixed dinner, and caught up with what had been going on at home in my absence, it was 8:30 p.m. and I was too pooped to stitch!

Anyway, I'm still working on the large motif you can see partially done in the last picture of Altengamme.  I have finished all the green on it though and I have 2-1/2 of the rose colored sections to do.  Should have that done in the next couple of evenings I hope.

I'll post another picture when there is something to take a picture of.