Mid Month Milestone

First the lilies - they have been shrieking confetti at me, and i am silently tending to them. I have to, LOL. If you look at the sea of blue below, they were my silver lining of the page. Once that sea was almost done, i switched gears and looked seriously into the confetti stitches - the disarrray of the hanging floss talks for that, dont you think.

Can you believe this pic is taken (this morning) from my E71?? Tonight, i am going to work around the sea of blue in case that makes you feel better for me:8)

The other pic (courtesy E71) i have is of the Alla Turca. As you can see i am currently doing Page 6. Pages 3, 4 and 5 are the top section which is the order i would have followed if i was 'on time'. Since i am always a lagging behind cross stitcher, i have an option (it conveniences me)of doing Page 6 first, and then take the top portion most likely.

Froggie visited me on Sunday, and i had to redo some stitches - annoyed me no end. And then what do you think, i stitched some MORE and found out i have done another blunder or two. You are right, Captain Haddock says Blistering Barnacles. While the first frog visit had to, HAD TO be dealt with, this one most likely can be camouflaged. So i have not been hospitable to Froggie, the second time round. She might wield her power, and then there could be more work and then Captain Haddock might remind me of Thundering Typhoons, but i am ignoring that for now. I tell you...

Visiting Frogs

This weekend was Boink time, and i was working on this block. This is the 4th block in the left column.

Once i completed all of the red in this block, i took up green, and mid-way through the green line on the right, did i realise i have shifted the red one block to the right. Drat, and that was just at the time when i was feeling 'accomplished'. This happened on Saturday during T's morning nap time. I was mentally telling myself i can now complete this block by Sunday when i realised the shift:(

To be honest, i spent some time trying to see if i can camouflage the whole thing but quickly deduced that was not to be. The gap would be far too glaring! This is the first time i have had to frog THIS much, so before some inner voice played any prank, i frogged some 5 stitches. And when i was confident the 'bridge was crossed', i frogged the rest in a relaxed(#%^#@) manner.

By Sunday night, i completed the red, green and violet areas before going back to Water Lilies. I will hopefully have some progress pics next week, as i reach the May milestone. I have done lots more in MWL in the second half of May as there were very little confetti stitches to work on.