cross_stitch | Summer project progress (Reply)

Husband and I just returned from our summer holiday yesterday. We like to rent a summer house for a week, and I always bring a cross stitch project with me. I like to take a new one rather than what I'm already working on at home. Then when I've finished my home project I can finish the summer project. Last year, though, I didn't get very far and also didn't actually manage to finish my home project until recently, I thought I'd just take the same one again this year. That also meant zero preparation because the yarn and pattern and everything was already neatly together in a project bag in my drawer.

So I got rather a lot done on it this year. Progress in leaps and bounds compared to last year. Except I'd totally forgotten to check if I needed to top up the yarn. Turns out there were a couple of colours I ran out of last year and I ran out of several more this year because I generally never cut off too much at a time. It was a little annoying to run out of a colour when there were only six stitches left in that colour! Oh well, I had plenty to be getting on with anyway. Most of the stuff that needs to be filled in in the lower half here is black.

I really like working on this project. I've been hugely enjoying the super bright colours. Not to mention the wonderful absence of any sort of detail work of any kind and not a fractional stitch in sight!

(Pattern is called Strike A Balance by Emma Congdon, published in Cross Stitch Crazy issue 244 August 2018)