Weekly Cross Stitch Update #8

New Year, New Resolutions

This month is just speeding by. January 20th already! Not going to babble about all of my New Year's resolutions, just one. I'm going to try waking up early in the morning. Really, really early. For instance, this morning I woke up at 4:40 A.M. We'll see how long this lasts, but doing pretty good so far.

Progress on Contemporary Flag

In my last post, I felt that I hadn't made as much progress on this patriotic cross stitch as I would have liked. But this week is very different. In my opinion, I feel like substantial progress has been made (even though I accidentally erased my chart from my pdf reader app. Oops) and now I feel like I can share my progress with you.

This is what it looked like the last time you saw it:

the before

And here's my progress:

after!

It's really starting to emerge! This is such a quick stitch. My strategy is to break up the red and white with some of the blue. The red and white stripes are beautiful, but the blue will be a nice respite from those shades of floss every once in a while.

Next in the Rotation is...

Drum roll, drum roll, drum roll...

Still Life with Tangerines!

Hmmmm... I can't actually recall the last time I stitched this one. This is a kit by Luca S, and it looks so beautiful and realistic, like a watercolor.

So for this one, I think goals for this week will be to tackle another tangerine (or at least finish the peel of the one I'm currently working on) and stitch another leaf, or some more of the shading. The shading goes pretty fast, because they are half stitches.

Happy Stitching!

Marisol

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