Mansfield Park Update

I'm making good progress on Mansfield Park--I've finished the verse, and I've started (ok, just barely started!) on the next band, a large floral design. I'm enjoying stitching this one so much, and I'm seeing so much progress, that I really do believe that I'll meet my goal of having this one finished before Labor Day!

Here's a picture of my progress so far:

To recap, I'm stitching this on 35 count undyed linen from Vikki Clayton using the DMC conversion as given with the chart. I'm really enjoying the time I'm spending stitching this one!

I hope you're all having a good stitching week and making great progress on your UFOs!

Ann in Baton Rouge
www.with-my-needle.blogspot.com

Mansfield Park

Here's my new UFO project--Mansfield Park, from The Sampler Girl. It's about one-third complete. I'm stitching it on 35 count undyed linen from Vikki Clayton, using the DMC conversion.

The only reason this one became a UFO (as is the case with most of my UFOs!) is because I suffer from a severe case of startitis!


I hope to have this finished before I leave on my Labor Day weekend vacation.

Happy stitching, everyone!

Ann in Baton Rouge

www.with-my-needle.blogspot.com

I have figured out the problem...finally!

Quaker a Six Mains
(if you look closely you can see the lilac motif that took over an hour yesterday)

I've finally figured out why I'm having so much trouble with my DMC linen floss project--it's the fabric!

I picked out a beautiful piece of linen for the project, but it's also very tightly woven. There's too much friction between the fabric and the floss, so I'm constantly having to 'tug' the floss through (especially when there's a slub in either the fabric or the floss) and I'm winding up with frayed and breaking floss because of it.

I'm going to test my theory this weekend--I've got some linen here with a much looser weave, so I'm going to pick out one of the small freebies that I've printed out and try stitching it with the linen floss on the more loosely woven linen. I think I'll have a much easier time stitching. At least I hope so. I really like the look of the linen floss and I'd like to think it can be used for cross stitch and not just surface embroidery work.

So Quaker a Six Mains will go on the back burner for the time being, until I figure out the fiber problem. I'm not going to rush myself to pick out the work that I've already done (after all, I may be wrong) but I'm going to stop all work on it and pick up something else from my WIP basket.

June goal

My personal goal for June is to stitch for at least one hour on Quaker a Six Mains every day. Here's what she looks like today:

French Stitch Tuesday

Here's an update on my French sampler--Quaker a Six Mains. I only had an hour to stitch last night, so not much progress. But it's progress all the same and it fulfilled my promise to myself (of stitching at least one hour every Tuesday on this sampler) so I'm happy! This piece will be traveling with me this weekend so I hope to have more progress to show next week.