Another Mediterranean Squares Update

I have been hearing about snow and lot's of rain in other parts of the country but here....today...it is beautiful.  No fog and 69 degrees.  I'm inside today but hoping for a nice today tomorrow for a trip to Stow Lake to see the baby Herons.  Stow Lake is in Golden Gate Park so it's only about 2 miles from me.  Everyone should be back in school  (after spring break) so it should be rather quiet over there.  This little lake also has pedal and electric boats or rent.....if you get out this way. 

But back to the update for the Mediterranean Squares........ I have been stitching on it most evenings but you are probably surprised at how little I have to show for it.   It seems I put in three threads and take out one, then add two more.  So things do move slowly.  I have decided the darkest red in the partial square at right is too dark, so it's coming out tonight and a slightly lighter red is going in there. I like the way the square, at the lower right, turned out....and it went pretty much according to plan. Oh, but I almost forgot, I've ordered a replacement thread for the row square single row of Mosaic stitches in the small center square....as the white just seems to bright now.  Sometimes it takes almost to the end before little items like this show up!

So, as you can see, this will almost finish up the larger squares.  Then there are three small squares to finish and the border. 

I will be away on a teaching trip from April 24 to 30th so I won't be making a blog entry during that time, nor taking my stitching with me, so will resume stitching soon after my return. 

Hope to see you here around the 1st of May.

Stitching Progress

This last week I have been busy getting ready for the last pilot class. for this year....Flower Diamonds.....so lots to do.  The instruction book is close to being finished and the kits are almost complete.....just waiting for one more item.  (there is always one!).  The canvases are usually the last thing to complete.  The way they are marked has to a lot to do with how the instructions are written.  Everything must, hopefully, work together  and make sense., both in class, and after students get home.   But anyway, the kit box should be ready to mail early this next week.   

But, that is what has been going on in the daytime.  Most evenings I have been stitching on Mediterranean Squares so it will be finished by May 1st.   Since I last posted an update I've add some small squares along the left side, completed several partially worked squares, and started the large square at the lower left.  That leaves two main squares to add and other smaller items.  Even though I have sketches done and threads in mind,  things still need changing as stitching progresses.  In classes students ask about the development of the design.  I always answer it takes a bit of re-stitching, and this has been no exception.  During this last week I have changed threads at least three or four times.....either the color and/or texture of thread. 

I'll post one more update before the "finished photo".  Here's hoping each of you are finding time to get lots of stitching done.  

Happy Easter!