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Showing posts with label Turtle trot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Turtle trot. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

March turtle trot


March! Eeek March already!
Anyway....on to my projects, I managed to work on 5 of them this month.

Dockside quilts before: (excuse the wrinkles)

After: all done!!
It's just about dry in this pic.  Still need to iron.

A whole lotta latte. FINISHED!  I decided not to stitch the words across the bottom. I rather like it without them. 
Still needs to be ironed. I was so excited to get it finished! It's been a UFO/WIP for a year. 
Before:

After!

Purple blue green butterfly before:

After: 

Winter queen before: (the fabric is not dirty, it's silver lining from polstitches)

After: I filled in some white and the darker pink on the bottom of her dress. 

Red before the beading and back stitching 

After. DONE!


Happy stitching!









Tuesday, February 10, 2015

February Turtle Trot


Another month gone by...here are my ten.

Take time 
Before:

Middle.... 

FINISH!!!! Didn't think I was going to do it but I did! Yay me!!  Second finish for 2015!


A whole lotta latte
Before:

After:



Butterfly girl before:


After. 


A view from a window before 


After:

I'm giving up on this one. I did about 6 stitches and got stuck.  I remember now why this became a UFO. See all the blue and green.... It all has to be frogged. .... Ugh. I don't have the patience to frog it.  I think I'm going to give up on this one and substitute something else in place of it.  I have one wip left (I only had 11 to begin with) and I'm unsure if a will add it in to my turtle trot or start something new. 

Next up, Mirabilia winter queen before:


After:

Rocky point. Never touched it. Lost my mojo every time I looked at it. Hopefully I can get some done next month.  

Same with my picture of my cat. Never touched it. 

Dockside quilts. 
Before:

After:

Butterfly. 
Before:

After:

And last, Red. 
Before:

After: she's almost done except for beading!


Ok, so after this round of turtle trot I've realized that I'm extremely overwhelmed with all these projects.  I think it's because 1) my projects are HUGE... at least to me they are, and 2) I HATE having to change projects when I'm "in the groove."   For example..... when I was working on Red, I didn't want to put her down.  I could see the finish line!  Same thing while I was working on Whole Lotta Latte.  It's almost done!! And then I have to put it down and move on to something else...wah wah wahhh.

Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that all of my WIPs are being worked on.  The concept of Turtle trot is awesome!  I just don't know what to do.  I don't want to give up on them.  But, I can't cut them down to 5 projects, because then I would feel like I'm making my own rules and I don't want to do that either.

Any suggestions from experienced stitcher's?  I would truly appreciate your feedback!

Happy Stitching!