Well, it is mid week and I already finished this weeks allotted amount of stitching on the Mini So Many Books So Little Time project. I am rather proud of myself, though I do worry a bit about burning out. I tend to have really good stitchy phases and then, at the drop of a hat, I will enter a major slump that will last for a while. I can only hope and pray that my mojo continues… at least until the 2014 Olympics. hahaha, like that isn’t asking too much. For now, though, I am determined to not worry about it too much.
This is what it will look like when finished (less the watermark):
Here is what it looked like when I picked it up this week:
And here is what it looks like now that I have added another 1,200 stitches:
While working on this project, I watched some of Season 2 of 7th Heaven and Season 1 of Little House on the Prairie. I don’t know why I am still watching these ridiculously lame shows. I never watched Little House on the Prairie growing up, but my mom used to sit down with my sisters and I every night before we went to bed and she would read us a chapter out of the books. It is a great memory that I have and one I plan on repeating when I have my own children. As a matter of fact, I have the books sitting on my bookshelf right now and I have been thinking that I should read it again. Transport myself back in time to a time when things were really different than how they are now. I won’t say a simpler time, because in some ways that is true but in other ways it isn’t.
For the rest of the week, I will be working on Around the World in 80 Stitches. I am almost finished with Part 3 and then I will only have two more parts until I am caught up. I am really enjoying it. Except that I (1) hate putting on beads. I decided that I have to do it as I go along with the project or I will never go back through each of the parts and put on the beads when I am done. I do admit that it adds a lot of embellishment and so glitz, but it is a paid to do. (2) I hate working with metallic thread. I hate it with a passion. And (3) I hate lazy daisy stitches. I never feel like mine look that great. And unfortunately, this time, I have to combine two of my hates… lazy daisy stitches in metallic thread. Oh the joy!
I won’t be getting much stitching done on Saturday because I have a reading date with my best friend. Essentially we get online and read the same thing at the same time for 12 hours. I know it probably sounds lame, but she lives in Virginia and I live in California and so it is a way to spend time together. We usually Skype chat/call for a couple hours. It is a great bonding experience and it helps us stay close… like sisters. We used to do this in High School as well (though it wasn’t for 12 hours and we were actually in the same room when this went down) so it is also a way to remember the good times. I have been looking forward to this for weeks. We try to do it once every month or two, but I have to admit that I bailed the last time by accidentally sleeping through pretty much the entire thing.
On Monday I will be starting the next 1200 in the challenge. Can’t wait. I have been printing off the pattern with a weeks worth of stitching at a time. It helps keep me motivated because I can see it coming closer and closer to being finished instead of just seeing how much there is left to do. I use the snapshot tool on the pdf files and blow it up 275%. That is a pretty good amount because it is the perfect size for my highlighter. Not too big, not too small, but just right!