Monday, January 23, 2023

Stitching the Scroll

I'm three weeks into 2023 with my calendar stitch scroll project, and so far I haven't missed a day.

I'm basing the thread colors I choose for each day on my mood (green being the best; yellow being the worst), and if my hands are giving me serious trouble I do just a line of running stitches. I've also beaded a couple of days' efforts, but I am trying to resist the temptation (otherwise the whole thing would be beaded.)

Some surprises: I didn't think my moods changed that much, but from the color variety I guess they're rather mercurial. The stitching on the back of the linen looks almost as good as the front. Linen is a pain to embroider with certain kinds of threads (boucle just constantly snags) but is also very forgiving. So I'm learning a lot, too.

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