a change to my-challenge

 I was not having fun with yesterday's piece in my rotation. First, it is on black linen which is never a pleasant experience. After my first hour, I knew it was time to throw in the towel. If stitching ever could possibly be an aerobic exercise, my maneuvers to stitch on black surely came close.   Adjust the light, adjust the magnification, adjust the fabric, put it in a hoop, flip the extra faric out of the way, try the light underneath, temporarily blind myself, white towel on lap, stitch twelve stitches, repeat, put fabric in a larger hoop to help keep the edges from folding over underneath and from blocking the light from below.......sneeze, and do it all again!!!!! This is after I decided to frog what I had stitched the first time around. I thought I would mix it up a bit and add some krenik to the white but didn't like the effect. I tried it a couple of more times using various floss combinations but......this time the phone rang and I was forced to "reset" yet again.


Yuck!  These stitches look like poo!  And trust me, only the camera zoom made the fabric look so easy to stitch on.



Oops.  Sideways but you get the idea.

Enter, the Sheltering Tree from All Through The Night. This has been in my stash and was a contender for the I-challenge but was lost in the editing room. I see it on a couple of other challengers list, like Jodie's, and pulled it out. Isn't the squirrel a cutie? 

Jodie and I will have to compare our progress.

Loving the feel and the color changes of this floss

I am using the most awesome floss, BelleSoie Miss Green Jeans, which I remember being expensive. Now I know why.