BFF SAL 16 substitutions

 how annoying is it when you know you have a particular shade of thread and it is not in its place in the box, or in any of the ongoing projects it might be with!

Very that's the answer to that. So there were substitutions and I am nearly almost done ! Ah so near and yet so far! All the full cross stitches are done, just half stitches in one or two strands of the same blue remain to do before backstitching can start.

The big white space, or slice of cheese as my BFF referred to it is now filled in and looking much more boat.

The little houses are all done.

I anticipate it will be backstitching next week and then we will change to BFF randoms till the New year I expect when BFF 17 will need to be chosen.

I am not sure yet if this is for me or if it will be gifted. 

I might add a little something to the design either way, but the what is going to depend on the for whom!

Click Here to pop over to my BFF's blog for her update.

BFF SAL16 some filling in

 I have not posted for a few weeks, I had a cold and it rather interrupted everything including  our BFF sessions.

There has been off camera sewing in dispensation time, and at the end of this evenings session we agreed to free stitching up to the backstitch stage and we will then pause and wait till we are both ready for that whomever gets there first.  We get to that point sometimes on the joint projects when we want to be finished and on to something new even if what that will be is as yet unplanned.

So her is the progress up to this evening.

that half stitch sky, some in one strand some in two is most likely going the same way as the sky in the Easter  Bunnies .

I am very glad now I have less sky to fill in than my BFF.

It feels good to have more of the little houses done (i have done a little remodelling on mine , so you can play spot the difference between mine and my BFF's if you like.)

And at last with that line of blue I am making progress on the big boat at the bottom and getting rid of the "slice of cheese" as my BFF has been calling it.

I checked what thread I was missing and for at least one of them I will be doing a substitution rather than try and get just the one skein of thread .

CLICK HERE to see try that spot the difference on the houses.

We had another conversation about the passage of time, and our joint astonishment at being on BFF SAL 16, but then we have been doing this for 4 years now, wait what!

Gosh so we have. Mind so far stitched more than fully finished. I will have to check that and get some finishing done.

Hopefully from frames in the stash.

BFF 16 white and pink

 

you can't really see the white in this picture but my BFF commented that the boat was looking a little bit fuller.

I think there might be green next.

And no I still have not got around to getting the missing threads.

click HERE to pop over to my BFF's blog for this weeks post.

Sunday Stitchings meets Gifted Gorgeousness

 so as the 15th of the month falls on a Sunday and the item that I am currently working on on Sundays happens to be a kit gifted to me this post happily is both.

Still working in brown although I think I might have finished all of the stitches in this shade, there may of course be ninjas lurking about waiting to catch me unaware!

Ah and talking of ninja stitches today was also Stake Conference, its too long a combined time of sitting for my mother so we watched from home via you tube and I thought I might get out my normal conference stitch and work on that. On the World and THAT comet.

I did get it out, and each celestial body got a few stitches however, I am still struggling with "seeing" just where I am and what stitches need to be in what shade where! So I took the few as a win and turned back to something nice and friendly on 14 count.

CLICK HERE to go to the host blog and find other participating blogs (oh and for the rules on the GG posts click HERE as it is a much better explanation than can provide.

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.