And a Little Distraction...
As You can see, Dear Readers, I have been making great progress on the carpet stitching! I have to confess, I have been more than a little obsessed with figuring out whether or not I had enough threads in the right colors to finish the roses. And there was really only one way of proving it... and that was by stitching all the roses! The above picture proves that, yes, I did! There was not a lot of thread left over in the end, and I had even used some of the "tail ends" I had saved from the first round of stitching the roses according to the charted kit instructions.
This is all that was left of the pinks
and the darker "green" for the leaves!
(Really a grayish green.)
But the color I was most concerned about...
the off-white that was the background inside the "cartouches"
was in extremely short supply.
I was certain I would not have enough for all four corner cartouches.
But you can rest assured that I had a back-up supply!
As I was deciding to add to this carpet,
and was debating the quantity of threads needed,
I remembered that I had leftover threads from other kits I had completed...
and some of the threads were the same colors I would need!
In particular, the white was so close a match...
I could not tell the difference...
The number on this pack is 882...
The number on the carpet white is 881...
But which is which?
This is the third corner with the white background added.
And here they are all four corners completed!
And the red in the scroll-work as well...
which I was also a little worried about having enough threads!
So now all that is needed is the dark red background filled in...
and if I run out of those threads,
the same color is part of that other kit!
No worries!!
But what is the distraction I hear you ask?
Well, Dear Readers, I have the unusual habit
of painting on my walls...
And I start what will someday be a very elaborate painted mural...
and then I add to it from time to time...
and it takes years and years...
and I have yet to "finish"...
But I felt like adding to my bedroom mural....
Just the small blossoms along the bottom....
the bigger trees and shrubs have been there for years now...
(This is just part of one wall...)
It is supposed to be a morning in May....
So all the blossoms are the ones that would be blooming in May...
even though it is now July...
But some of the blossoms I can still pick to see if I have them right...
(I apologize for the dark photo... it was a gloomy rainy day)
Of course, one can get endlessly lost in the details...
I painted for hours... all weekend....
Not by a long shot.....!
But it is progress!
And not only do I love doing it....
getting lost in the details....
But it gives me endless pleasure to look at it...
especially on cold Winter nights...
When one can hardly remember the color green...!
So you can see
I got a little Distracted, Dear Readers,
but I made progress on some of my
unfinished projects....
Big and small!
