Stitching Foolishness

 I have been building a house.

I thought I was going to get it built in a couple of days, but like all construction projects, I have run into delays--mainly, there are way more stitches than I thought. This is Day Four and I'm still not through. Fingers crossed that today is the day.

There has also been an unnecessary cost overrun. The designer calls for a specific overdyed thread. For one stitch. One stitch only. The color is not used anywhere else in the chart.

Seriously?

I mean,  SERIOUSLY???????

I do not fault the shop that kitted the project because they were just pulling the threads the designer specified. But I would ask designers to really think if one stitch needs to be in a unique color.

Otherwise, I'm very happy with the design. I'm just ready to be done with the house.

Right after I turned the light off last night, I realized I hadn't blogged. Maybe it was because we had Friday the 13th on a Tuesday. Anyway, this is where I am on Daily Reminder:

Today has definitely been a stitching day. This morning the Dayton EGA chapter held its monthly meeting and Tricia Nguyen lectured. This was the third lecture I've heard from Tricia this week--she lectured on Nuremberg samplers for the Mayflower Guild, on Saturday, then had a wide-ranging talk on a variety of subjects for the Great Lakes Region on Sunday, and today she spoke about the creation of and marketing for embroidered boxes--which we now call caskets--in the 17th century. All fascinating, all informative, all made me just want to stitch more and more.

Today was also the last class for Zina Kasban's Elizabethan Rose. This has been a wonderful class, and I truly hate to see it end. I highly recommend Zina as a teacher, and I will continue to look forward to her classes in the future. Yes, I am a fangirl. I will be the first to admit it.

Unfortunately, I now need to shift laundry. I'd rather thread a needle.

It doesn't look like I'm going to stitch today, even though I really need to stitch. Don't even ask . . . 

But the mail carrier was very good to me, and some charts I had ordered have arrived:

I have finally reached the point where I can turn the scroll bars and move onto the bottom of "Daily Reminder."

And I really need to be working on goldwork at the moment, but this has been such a pleasant stitch (meaning I don't have to think about it too much) that it's hard to go back to something that requires more than two functioning brain cells. 

 Finally! The big pot of flowers has been stitched!

I'm not quite where I want to be at this point in time, but I did not thread a needle yesterday. I developed a headache in the early morning. By the time it wore off, I was as limp as a wet noodle.

Wet noodles have a difficult time threading needles.

When I got up, I thought it would be wonderful if I got the upper left corner finished, and stitched a couple of smaller motifs on the right side. Then I could turn the scroll frame and maybe start the house.

This did not happen. But I got this far:

Whatever, I'm going to go with the flow and see what tomorrow brings.

 I fell into a book today and had a hard time climbing out. Therefore, I put in only a few stitches on my Blessing Sampler and nothing at all on my goldwork projects.

However, I have stitched every day of the New Year and I'm counting that as a win.