BFF SAL 16 my turn

 to be in the pink..

and making a start on little houses.

Felt like good progress.

Click here to see how my BFF is progressing.

Sunday Stitching

 a less obvious amount of progress but still there were stitches added and none needed to be taken away.

BFF SAL 16 and light golden brown

 was still the go to shade set for me. Some area defining work and then just before we were done for the evening some satisfying filling it.

I think the rest of the filling in for this section will be something I can do whilst listening to a nice Forestella mix, perhaps even the ones for singing along to, although goodness knows what my mispronounced Korean, Spanish or indeed Italian is actually saying but I will have fun with it.

Click here to see my BFF's progress on her chosen section of the pattern.

You can almost see what the whole thing might look like.

Her square and my rectangle.

Sunday Stitchings a new month

but still working on the same shade.  The left side is sorted but there is still more of this shade to go on the right side.

 At the moment a particular breed of the animal emerging springs to mind. However, that is not the case at all.

Things went quite smoothly  this week, I spotted a small miscount in the last four stitches from last time before it could grow into a bigger issue. That felt like a win.

BFF SAL 16 complementing

 missing bits. We don't plan it this way, honest we don't. We just stitch in whatever colour or direction we want.

And in this case also how much of the original pattern we want. That it ends up with my part being bits that are not as yet stitched by my BFF and visa versa just happens.

Although this time I am particularly amused that I stitched in the black bollards as jumping off points for the houses and steps and then looking at my friends update to get the link to add below realised that is the only bit of the houses and steps she still has left to do!

My picture is likewise a little less posed than usual, and you can no doubt see I don't leave a lot of room at the edges. It is rare that I do.

You will also note I now have five part boats, I really must get that missing thread.

To compare and contrast Click Here to see my BFF's current position.

Now it may not look like it but she is still closer to completion than I am so I still have additional allowance for off joint session stitching time.

Sunday Stitchings a new shade

 of beige/brown and the project grows a little.

It was the usual length of time and probably the usual amount of stitches completed but for some reason it did not feel like as much progress.

Sometimes it just feels like that.

No Sunday Stitching and no BFF Sal 16

 Why, well Sunday I was not well and so no stitching occurred and as for the SAL it was one of those rare evenings when we just did not have the emotional or physical energy to do it. 

It happens, and quite often when it does we are each feeling the same way, which ever one of us mentions it first.

I do however had that non camera allowance on this BFF SAL so I do have an update to share before next weeks get together.

Quite a lot of blue, some of it single strand but still a full cross stitch.  And yet another "not all there yet" mode of transport.

You are right I keep forgetting I need threads for this.

At some point I wont be able to keep working around their absence and will have to get that sorted out.

I would note that the ohps has been successfully "fudged" inside that swathe of blue.

BFF SAL 16 more blue

 blue in a little off screen time and blue this evening with a touch of red.

A thought about one of those reds and the number of  that shade.

The colours that come numerically before it are shades of greyish ness and those that come after it are green.

So the choice of this red shade to its colour number shows a biblical themed touch of humour.

It is of course 666.

I still have not got around to buying the threads I am short of  so what gets stitched next is still influenced by what I can stitch next.

Click here to see how my BFF is getting on.

Sunday Stitchings update

 Still just the two shades, still avoiding the frog and still finding this a very pleasant stitch.

oh and I found something nice at the charity shop on Saturday.

Two Fiskars templates, I am sure they are going to be very useful and ay only 50p each a bargain.

BFF Sal 16 feeling blue

 but quite happy about it.

I have not quite worked around the ""ohps to the point it feels fixed but some off camera time and a productive night of mostly blue and I feel I am making progress.

Funnily although I have not stitched anything on the three boats in this image the blue around them has made them more there this week than they previously were.

I am still far enough behind in the area left to stitch before a finish that I retain stitch anytime dispensation on this project.

So of course I don't feel all that much like working on it. However I have stopped in such a place that there are good starting points for next time.

There is still the issue of threads that need to be bought as well, but at the moment I will just keep going with the shades I have.

Pop on over to my BFF's blog by Clicking HERE to see how she is getting on with hers.