As mentioned earlier this month, I have got the stitching bug again and have been enjoying stitching here and there on these cold dark evenings in front of the telly and away from my workdesk/craft desk where I spend most of the day for my work-work.
It’s really helped separate things out a little better since I work from home and spending too much time in my shared work office/craft room tends to leave me uninspired when I actually need to make a project.
So doing some crafting in another room when I close that office door has helped ensure I feel more inspired on a weekend to make card projects.
Last week I received the new Bloom & Grow Stitch-along kit in the post from Caterpillar Cross Stitch:
It’s my first time dabbling with evenweave and having read about and watched a few videos on gridding, I decided I was definitely going to need it.
So the day the pattern for January’s section went live (last Friday) I was actually also waiting to receive my spool of easy count thread to do the gridding.
Friday evening I was still gridding until 1 a.m.:
And with the power of the ER Season 1 box set on Channel 4 on demand and James May’s Our Man in Japan on Prime, I managed to get to a point on Saturday evening (having got in around 6) where I could get some more gridding done and finally sew a few rows of stitches.
Big mistake.
I should have left it until I was more awake rather than sew that first row at close to midnight.
The next morning I’d realize I’d used the grid as the middle line and not the actual centre.
So some unpicking was required and I started again.
This time I messed up by having my hoop the wrong way round and had started in portrait mode not landscape.
So finally, at some point on Sunday morning I started stitching and have done a little each evening.
I will try and share a progress photo soon.
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