I am happy to announce that, at least for now, I am super happy with my new rotation plans, and super motivated too! Thankfully, I also had a lot of extra stitching time on my hands this past week, and so I can already show you the result of my first ten hour 'slot'. I started working on Lady Justice as she needs to be finished in just under four months' time (she's a birthday present for my mom, who's a judge). Even though I had spent about 25 hours on her so far, I never really focused on her (I just picked her up for an hour or two here and there during 2019) so I didn't really have a feeling for how long she's going to take me. Now after spending my first ten hours with her this year, I am happy to report that while there is a lot of stitching to do, I'm making good progress, and I'm reasonably sure I can do it, if I keep focusing!
So, as a reminder, here she was when I last put her away - as you can see, I was stitching away at her skirts kind of awkwardly, doing a little here and there, up and done, trying to get the edges in, but leaving some strange gaps in between (and I don't mean the circles that will be beaded later):
So I spent some time filling gaps, finishing these weird, half finished rows, and slowly filling the skirt in from the bottom up. I think it looks much nicer now with about 2000 extra stitches!
I'm really enjoying stitching on her, so much that I had a hard time putting her down. In fact, I think I'll just take a moment to sew my headband together and continue with another ten hours to make use of this momentum!
6 comments:
Leonore: She will be lovely, I am looking forward to seeing her finish.
Catherine
This looks great! You really accomplished a lot in 10 hours. I can see why you want to keep working on it. Your mother will love it.
You can see how much you've done, great work
Great work, this rotation obviously suits you. Interesting to learn that your Mum is a judge. A friend of mine used to be a Magistrate and she was always trying to get me to sign up too. If only I had time LOL
It's surprising how much you can get done when you set your mind on something, and with a very good reason for working on this, she'll be done in no time! :)
Wow! It’s amazing how much progress there is in 10 hours! I’m enjoying the swishy effect of the skirt so far x
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