People's Choice for September

 Jo over at    Serendipitous Stitching   hosts this SAL for the first Saturday of the month.

This month it is Geometric. I love stitching something Geometric!

Here are a few that I have done over the years:

And of course I am working on Royal Garden:

Do you like stitching on things that are geometric?

National Needlepoint Month

 According to the American Needlepoint Guild, it is National Needlepoint Month. I will buy that! Any excuse to stitch on needlepoint. Well, lets be real. Any excuse to stitch PERIOD!

Here is my progress on Royal Garden:

Jessica Grimm 

had the brilliant idea of not doing the weaving stitch in the space between the crescents, but an alternating scotch stitch. Go check it out on her blog! 

And don't forget the Live Show on    Fiber Talk   tonight! I think it will be fascinating to talk to the artists who create this fabulous work.

It's September 1!

 Ok, I know most of you are doing Sampler September and I had really planned on doing that too. After all, I do have a sampler to finish... But my friend Cheryl

encouraged me to do Sewing September Challenge. Since I really don't sew, this is quite the challenge!

I decided to tackle Ariane Zurcher's 

Rock Gardens: Japanese Rice Bag. Or at least, that is what I am calling it!

I am using some fabric that I dyed. My daughter's cat Gimpy is supervising. My plan is to stitch on it a little every day. Let's see how long that lasts!  

By the way, if you haven't seen Ariane's YouTube Channel, I would highly recommend them. She is a left-handed stitcher and gives a lot of helpful hints.

Wipocalpse 2020 for August

 This lovely SAL is brought to you by Melissa.

You are supposed to work on your WIPS like the world is going to end in 2020. This year has been rather odd....

Here are the WIPs I worked on since July, in no particular order:

My Beloved, MH 1656:

Autumnal Abstractions-Finished!

Inchies by Kathy Rees

Enchanted Pumpkin by Mill Hill

Antique Scissors and Spools by Kitten Stitcher

And Royal Garden by Debbie Rowley:

Melissa always asks a question and this month it is as follows:

Have you participated in any of the mystery SALs on Facebook (or other social media)? What do you think makes a successful mystery SAL?

I am currently part of Linen and Threads Mystery SAL and miracle of miracles, I have stayed caught up!

Well, I need to add initials but I had planned to wait until the end for those. Probably a bad idea.

I have done several with ANG and taught them to my local guild. Not sure what makes them successful. I really think it depends more on the person who is stitching the SAL than the designer. Unless the designer never finishes the mystery, which is another problem all together!

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FiberTalk

 I know not many of us blog, but I feel like I need to get back to it. Fiber Talk has been taking my time and I am trying to do a video for my local guild for our Inchies project and there is THE GARDEN! Whine, whine whine. Anyway, I find looking at my blog and photos of things I have done much more rewarding than finding them on Instagram. My goal is to just put more posts up.

I am going to include links to Fiber Talk. It feels weird in a lot of ways to promote it since I am helping co-host. But I do like listening. If it isn't your cup of tea, scroll on by. 

 Diane Grick of Silver Creek Samplers

To Watch on YouTube

The one I feel that most of you will find interesting is the  show by the Embroiders Guild of Australia, which take place on September 2 at 8:00 pm Eastern Time.

 It will be on the  Fiber Talk Channel

You will be able to ask the artists questions since the show will be live! (You will be able to go back and watch the recording too.) Since  Gallery 76 is in Sydney, Australia, I know I could not see it in person. This will be the next best thing.

I'm So Stupid!

 I did not like the variegation on the this fabric with the over-dyed thread. So I pulled a solid DMC out and started stitching. ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE FABRIC! 

I really like the brighter side of the fabric so I will be ripping tonight!  I need to get a WIPocalpse post up this weekend. And my garden is calling me....

Pushing Forward

 I have made some serious progress on this piece. The plan is to stitch on it with Gary on Fiber Talk

this Wednesday night. We will see how much I get stitched.