Well, after spending much of the last 10 days setting up an entirely new website and beginning this journal I am finally able to get back to my next design in the works, Flower Diamonds (working title)!  It will be part of the proposals package I will submit to the national seminar committees in late January.  No pressure. 

I have already done sketches and stitch research.  I have been collecting and pulling threads for months.  Now I have finally narrowed it done to what you see above.  This beginning group will be re-evaluated several times and reduced somewhat.  Usually the palette ends up around 20 to 25 threads, beads, ribbons, etc.  Designs evolve and colors change when they come together.  I have a picture in my head of what I want the final project to look like but it takes actually stitching.....melding the threads, beads, and ribbons together.....to see if the materials all work together as I envision. 

My hope is to begin stitching in a week or so.  I will post more photos as I progress with the design. In the meantime there is the current project to finish and the "In Stitches" column to begin.  Thanksgiving at our house needs to fit in there somewhere.  So, there will probably not be an update until next weekend.  Happy Thanksgiving!