Maynia

In the middle of the night earlier this week, I started thinking about Maynia.

It had to be ten or fifteen years ago when I first heard of this particular form of needlework madness. At the time, people would pick out 31 new projects and start one each day in May. All I could think of was that I would go bugnutz crazy if I started that many projects and had that many WIPs  hanging over my head.

Then it evolved to working on a different project every day, new or old, or starting a new sampler every week in May and working on that particular sampler for that week, and then, in recent years, there have been other challenges--like doing 62 projects in a birthday year or fifty-two projects in a year, one a week, and so on.

And I thought to myself as I stared at the ceiling, I could easily work on the 18 projects I piled up after finishing RST plus the dozen Christmas ornaments I wanted to do this year and that would give me 30 projects for Maynia.

Then I rolled over and went back to sleep.

When I woke up, I realized that I would still go bugnutz crazy if I had that many WIPs going at one time, so I shelved that idea.

But Maynia was still circulating in my pointy little head. 

Last night I decided I would stitch every day in May instead of worrying about which projects or how many projects I would do. Since I try to stitch everyday anyway, this would not be a problem at all.

In fact, I decided I would go ahead and set up a project to work on today, and I pulled out one of the embroidered letter cases I took in an online class from Zina Kazban. I even pulled out the velvet board to corral sequins and metal bits, threaded the needle with the thread I was going to use, and was ready to go as soon as I tottered downstairs.

And when I tottered downstairs, I didn't feel the love.

I picked up No Place Like Home instead.

The willow tree is all leafed out and a bird has perched on a branch. That went fairly well, so I started the house that will grace the front cover.

You will notice there is no house on the front cover.

That is because I miscounted and started the house too high.

So I ripped it out and put everything in time-out for a bit.

I still plan to stitch every day in May. I hope I don't rip every day in May.