I started filling in the empty spaces on this band of Carmen.
Right now, I think I'm going to stick with Carmen for my Fourth of July stitching. Quite frankly, it's going to be too hot to do much of anything else!
Carmen has been sitting on the stand for weeks and weeks. Yesterday, I whipped off the fancy dishtowel that keeps the dust off, threaded up a needle, and stitched on her for awhile.
I restitched the leaves that I had to rip out and finished the rest of the leaves. It may not look like much, but it's filament silk on 45 count linen, so it takes me a wee bit longer to make visible progress.
But it made me so happy to work on this again!! Who knew a few stitches could do so much for ones attitude?
I am in a state of disbelief because the year is half over. And I have very little to show for it.
I'm not going to beat myself up over that. Who would have thought I would develop killer tendonitis and a possible hairline fracture in my wrist? I suppose I should build in a contingency plan for injury or decrepitude.
Better yet, maybe I should stop making plans. Have you heard this before? Like every couple of months?
Maybe my plan is to work on whatever pleases me at the moment, whether I meet any arbitrary goals or not. I really do need to recover from years of dealing with deadlines and schedules.
Meanwhile, I have added the outlines of flowers to the basket bands for House on the Hill.
I also read over the directions for the first class of an EGA online course that came out while I couldn't stitch. I have a month before the video classes for Hummingbird in Silk and Gold go kaput, so I believe I may want to at least watch them before they leave.
I frogged the mistake on Carmen--did I mention that I found the two threads that I was off when I had to stop working on her?
I cut out more little squares of linen for the online Hardanger class I'm taking through EGA's Cyberstitchers.
I decided I would definitely go with the practice netting for the online whitework class. Maybe. Of course, the Dazor is in position so I could work on the conservation netting. And I don't have a deadline when it absolutely has to be done. I think I'll continue to debate with myself over this.
I've cleaned off my work table again.
And the new issue of Inspirations has arrived.
I have choices for the Half Year. I need to be an octopus.
