2020, Month by Painful Month

I'm now up to the current never-ending year of 2020. Let's see what I've accomplished so far.

My local chapter of the American Needlepoint Guild, Potomac Chapter, has had a year-long challenge for 2020: Complete at least 20 needlepoint projects (stitching, not final finishing). I'm not doing as well as I had hoped, but I started off well. I got bogged down with a major project for several months, which is finished now but can't be shown until November.

January

 

 

 

The heart is my own invention. I was striving for a sand and sea effect. The white on red ornament is Potomac Chapter's 2019 Holiday Surprise, Winter Frost, designed by Donna LaBranche.

And I even finished the first one in a Sudberry coaster as a gift.

February

A group of us started stitching the ANG 2019 Stitch of the Month in October or November 2019, when we knew what it would look like. This is as far as I've gotten. I need to return to it.

March

This is the only piece I finished stitching, but I was working on a couple other things during the month. The pandemic set in mid-month. Arg.

April

A variation on Winter Frost, which I rather like.

And I was working on another piece or two.

May

This is an ornament designed by Melissa Shirley, which I snapped up for a song at the ANG Seminar auction when it was in DC. It took me a while to get started, and once started, it's taken me a while to get it to this point. It's nearly done. I have to finish the black background, which I've been doing a little at a time, because black on black. And I'm not happy with the stem and may rip it out.

This was a wedding gift for an April wedding that became an intimate affair that I watched via a Facebook Live video instead of attending in person. No fancy stitches. The design is intricate enough on its own.

And I'll leave you here. In May I started on a project that would consume all my stitching time until September. Stay tuned for what I'm working on now.

Remember 2019?

 I did a bit of stitching last year.

My good friend Donna gave me the Merrey Christmas canvas, after painting it to correct the spelling of Merry. She knows me so well. The two hearts were stitched for Hearts for Hospice and are my own inventions.

I also got the thistle ornament finished.

Next up, 2020, the year of living dangerously.

More Old Stitching

 Here's what I accomplished in 2018.

The first design is mine.

I really enjoyed stitching the stocking cuff, though it was a marathon stitch that ended with an all-nighter so I could meet the deadline for finishing.

I'm Ba-ack

Tap, Tap, Tap

Is this thing on?

Anybody there?

I've not been around, but I'm still stitching. Here, I can prove it. I've grouped the photos by year, sometimes it's the year the stitching was finished, sometimes it's the year I finally got the piece finished. This may go on for quite a few posts.

2016

2017

I think that's enough for one post. They're a mix of hand-painted canvases and counted canvaswork, four of which are my own designs.