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Weekly Cross Stitch Update #11

Missing a Project


I recently discovered a wip was missing from my cross stitch lineup. I use glass tokens and a tupperware to choose my next wip. Shake the container, and whatever I draw is the chosen wip of the week. But lately I've been thinking,"When am I going to stitch on Trick or Treat Moon?" I hadn't made a lottery token for him yet! Don't worry, I fixed it!

Then, when I went to my pdf reader app on my tablet, I couldn't find the chart for it. It was gone. You may remember that a while back, I cleaned up the files on that app and deleted files I didn't need any more. I had accidentally deleted the Chart for Contemporary Flag... and I guess that I also deleted the chart for my Moon as well.

Oops.

Shall we move on to my progress last week?

Progress on Linen & Threads Mystery Sampler


Made a nice amount of progress this week. It's always fun to see the color of the floss change without having to switch out the floss.

Here's what it looked like the last time you saw it:

Linen & Threads Mystery Sampler before
before
And here's what it looks like now:


Linen & Threads Mystery Sampler after
after

Those motifs on the second band are so fun to stitch! Let's get a close up:


Linen & Threads Mystery Sampler
close up


I feel very medieval when I work on this one.


Next in the Rotation is...


Drum roll, drum roll, drum roll...

Trick or Treat Moon!

Finally!(I wondered why it was taking so long to draw this one) 

Black aida here I come! Hurray for Halloween in February!

Happy Stitching!

Marisol 


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