I am back in business

After my last post about my lack of stitching motivations Theresa send me a link to an article with a rotation plan.  She and a few other stitching pales are following this plan with great satisfaction. I have never been a big fan of rotations (they never worked for me before) but in my desperation I thought it could not harm giving it a try.

I have chosen to rotate five projects and the first one to start with was the Alphabet 1900 or Riesenmustertuch, as we call it in the Sticklounge group.

So I have put in my first 10 hours already. That went much quicker than I thought. 10 hours of stitching time in just two days, not bad at all.

And here is the result. 

Almost all the dark brown parts have been stitched in this first round. You might wonder why I stitched in two different colours. That is, because I am changing it all to dark brown. I will have a lot of hours of frogging ahead of me, but I think the brown looks so much better and in the end the effort is well worth it.

The next 10 hours of stitching will go into Lady's Smock Fairy. It's one of my dead line stitching for Quilts 4 Kids.

Stitching up-dates

I've been stitching lately on my Sticklounge Sal projects in rotation.  The 3rd parts of both Alphabet 1900 (Riesenmustertuch) and Old European Sampler are ready now. Being up to date on the European Sampler I do have a lot of catching up to do one Alphabet Sampler.

I have also started a new project within the Sticklounge group. It is called Heart Note Alley designed by Kathy Bungard. Here's a link to her blog.

Alphabet 1900 - Riesenmustertuch

Right after finishing the first part of my Old European Sampler (see previous post) I've continued stitching and finished the second part of Alphabet 1900 or Riesenmustertuch (Giant Sampler) as we call it in my German cross stitch group. I really love how elegant it looks like. To bad that you can't really see all it's beauty in this crappy picture.

As you can see in the picture I've continued already with the third part. Some of the SAL stitcher are already working on part 9 or 10, so I have some catching up to do.

Part one is ready....

First of all, I'd like to thank my dear blog readers for always leaving such kind comments. Even after being away for such a long time, there a still people reading my rare posts. And yes, it is good to be back. I can't tell you how much I missed stitching and blogging.

Here's a picture of the first part of my Giant Sampler. The Border is completely stitched in DMC ecru, as well a few of the letters. The inner borders and most of the letters are stitched in different shades of light sand colours, some are more yellowish and some have a blush of pink in it. But I guess one can't really see it in the picture.

New project

As I already pronounced in my post yesterday, today started the huge alphabet sampler SAL. I have been stitching all day long and like to show you my so far progress.

It is not much yet, but the patterns isn't easy either. I am stitching this one in Petite Point with mostly ecru. I really love the way it looks like. Will now continue stitching for a few more hours, while watching a movie or two.