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Thanks, Karen! for UFO nudge Susan Hartman 05-25-2008
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Posted by Susan Hartman on May 25, 2008, 6:38 pm
Thanks for the little push on making it a UFO weekend. While not
officially a UFO, my mermaid project has been languishing. I'm in the
"eating your peas" part of the project - the over-1 alphabet on 35-ct
linen that is SO much easier in the sunshine, and I usually don't get
stitching time til night. I won't let myself have the "dessert" of the
final mermaid motif until I finish the alphabet and another over-one
verse, and somehow the more fun to do projects keep creeping ahead.

Here's the photo (again...still....y'alll have seen this before):

http://tinyurl.com/6rweqf

I've mostly finished all the top 2/3 - down to the words "coraggio" and
"pax". Up to letter Y in the first alphabet (second row, way left) and
the second half of the second line of the verse and the border is 80%
complete all the way around (Doesn't show in frame in this photo).

So this afternoon I just made it a priority to sit outside in the sun
with a cuppa and a book on my headphones and do some stitching. I
finished a big letter, a couple of small letters, and am feeling more
energized about this project. Hope to do another letter or two tomorrow
in the sunshine.

Thanks, Karen!

Tonight and tomorrow night I hope to finish the beading on another
project. I've made two standups from "M Designs" personalized Christmas
ornaments (memorial gift for a friend who's recently lost both her
parents - trees with her parents' names). I made cording to put around
it, then left the ends dangling into a sort-of (but not quite!) tassel.
I think there are 16-twisted layers of floss - six strands - two ends of
the cord, so that's 32X6 threads. I'm stitching a green seed bead on the
end of each strand, cutting them to varying lengths. It would look a
little sketchy if it were a hanging ornament, but good when it's a
standup and it kind of fills and spills the opening, if you can imagine
what I'm trying to describe! I'll get DD over here with her camera
before I send them to my friend and will post a photo at that time. (A
picture is worth a thousand works, right?) It's like the 4th and 5th
photos on this page, except I'm unravelling the cording and stitching on
beads: http://www.m--designs.com/personalizedtreedesigns.html

Sue

--
Susan Hartman/Dirty Linen
The Magazine of Folk and World Music
www.dirtylinen.com

Posted by lucretia borgia on May 25, 2008, 7:24 pm
On Sun, 25 May 2008 18:38:58 -0400, Susan Hartman

>Thanks for the little push on making it a UFO weekend. While not
>officially a UFO, my mermaid project has been languishing. I'm in the
>"eating your peas" part of the project - the over-1 alphabet on 35-ct
>linen that is SO much easier in the sunshine, and I usually don't get
>stitching time til night. I won't let myself have the "dessert" of the
>final mermaid motif until I finish the alphabet and another over-one
>verse, and somehow the more fun to do projects keep creeping ahead.
>
>Here's the photo (again...still....y'alll have seen this before):
>
>http://tinyurl.com/6rweqf

It's still a lovely piece
>
>I've mostly finished all the top 2/3 - down to the words "coraggio" and
>"pax". Up to letter Y in the first alphabet (second row, way left) and
>the second half of the second line of the verse and the border is 80%
>complete all the way around (Doesn't show in frame in this photo).
>
>So this afternoon I just made it a priority to sit outside in the sun
>with a cuppa and a book on my headphones

You must have looked some funny - as kids say lol

Posted by Karen C in California on May 26, 2008, 2:38 am
Susan Hartman wrote:

> Thanks for the little push on making it a UFO weekend. While not
> officially a UFO, my mermaid project has been languishing. I'm in the
> "eating your peas" part of the project


I've been eating peas all day, too. :( I'm working on the cascade of
froth on Mermaid of the Pearls and geez-Louise, it goes on forever.
Worked on it all day and still not even half done with it.

--
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Posted by Becky A on May 26, 2008, 5:53 am
Susan Hartman wrote:
> Thanks for the little push on making it a UFO weekend. While not
> officially a UFO, my mermaid project has been languishing. I'm in the
> "eating your peas" part of the project - the over-1 alphabet on 35-ct
> linen that is SO much easier in the sunshine, and I usually don't get
> stitching time til night. I won't let myself have the "dessert" of the
> final mermaid motif until I finish the alphabet and another over-one
> verse, and somehow the more fun to do projects keep creeping ahead.
>
> Here's the photo (again...still....y'alll have seen this before):
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6rweqf
>

Well, I hadn't...and it looks really neat! Not something I would do
personally, but you've got my respect for it all the same, Susan.

I'm just doing a small scissors case, but it's a UFO and I worked on it
this weekend and got the front side done. Now I just have to repeat the
pattern for the back side of the case. I'm not really sure how to do
the finishing for the case, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

Becky A.

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