Hi! Here I am! We are still in moving mode, but it'll be several weeks before we can move into our new house so I have a little bit of stitching time! I can't start anything new because all of my stash is in storage, worry, worry....
Anyway, my stitching is all on WIPs and I have actually finished something!
Octagon in a Square is the latest of my Mad Miters craziness.
The last time you saw this, I think I had just started the center. The Octagon is done in Mad Miters and the surrounding areas are straight Bargello.
This is not my most successful experiment! But it's OK, we learn by doing, so they say! The cable pattern I chose was difficult to work with in the Mad Miters part, and these are not MY colors. It is supposed to be liberating (or something) to work outside your comfort zone, but this may have been TOO far out of mine!
I will try to post somewhat regularly now, but only once a week till we get settled. Thanks for hanging in there with me!
Octagon in a Square is coming along, slowly. I have a good start on the right side. I will probably start the Mad Miters part of the right side the next time I work on it.
This is not the fastest Bargello pattern I've ever stitched!
I'm baaack. We spent a week at our Reno house where the weather was just lovely! And it was good to catch up with old friends.
I am nearly half way with Octagon in a Square. Now I will work the other side of the background because I have decided that I will begin the other side of the Octagon based on the right side background. Then the middle section of the Octagon will see those two come together.
Well, it makes sense to me!!
It still doesn't look like much, but I have worked on this quite a bit. It is not the quickest pattern! I have just barely begun one section of the Mad Miters part. I may change the little diamonds (in the MM part), not sure if I like the pink continued there. I'm thinking I may use the overdye to outline them, then fill them with a metallic. Decisions, decisions....
Oh boy, here she goes again! If you remember my Diamond in a Square, this is the same idea: Bargello surrounding Mad Miters. The inside of the octagon will be Mad Miters; you can just barely make out the basting for it. It is just about ready for the MM to begin.
