Well, I think I have about 17 "in progress" projects that I have started but haven't finished. However, I really just have two right now that I am working on with any regularity. I do not rotate on a schedule, I rotate when I get bored, so I have spent all of January/February working on V's piece and now Celtic Spring. Celtic Spring hasn't bored me yet, so I'm sticking with it for now.
And now on to monthly updates. I have two - one on the piece I was working on for my friend, V, and one on Celtic Spring.
My friend's piece was "Angel of Cross Stitch" by Joan Elliot/Design Works. Just a bit of back story: V did most of the stitching on this piece, but a major illness made it very difficult for her to stitch for a variety of reasons. She asked our yuku group "Cross Stitch Crazy" if anyone would be willing to do a little stitching on it for her, and several of us agreed. A rotation list was made, and I was the last name on the list, implying that I was going to finish the piece (yikes!) Well, fast forward several months, almost a year, and the piece had gone to everyone else and finally made it's way to me. While I had it, two important things happened. First, my friend was given a trip to Walt Disney World for her and her family by a generous benefactor and she invited our mutual friend, Holly, who has an Annual Pass to WDW, to join her for a few days of her trip. Holly contacted me and asked if I wanted to come with and surprise V (who I had not seen in person since 2003!) The second thing that happened was the V experienced enough improvement with her illness that she has begun stitching a little bit again. She contacted me and her questions about it gave me the impression that she wanted to put in the last stitches on AoCS, which I totally get!
So, these two things came together, and I ended up flying to Florida to surprise V not only be being there, but by bringing her almost-finished AoCS. Here are pix of the three of us (I'm on the left, V is in the middle, and Holly is on the right) and The Angel of Cross Stitch as it looked when I returned it to Miss V.
I've also made quite a bit of progress on my Celtic Spring. Ok, I should say that it's quite a bit for me, the queen of the slow stitchers! Here is an update on Celtic Spring:
