Sadly, I haven’t touched my YOTA project in a while.
Two months to be exact. It remains the same as I left it in September.
I feel guilty for not stitching on it but I just have no motivation to pull it out and work on it. Maybe if I leave it alone for a little while longer, I can come back to it some time next year with renewed ambition. But for now, I think I have given up on it and it will remain a WIP.
Sadly, no progress has been made on The Legend Of The Dogwood Tree.
This is where I left it last month and this is where it remians today.
I have been stitching, just not on this. I
have some Christmas things I have been concentrating on and that means this project has fallen by the wayside.
I would say that maybe next month would be better, but who am I kidding – the closer Christmas gets the less I will be working on anything.
August did not bring much stitching on The Legend Of The Dogwood Tree. I started a branch down in the corner and stitched a little white in the middle of a petal. I also got in some backstitching on petal. I know it’s not much progress, but it has been hard for me to stay motivated to stitch on this project for a multitude of reasons.
It’s time for YOTA again! Well, YOTA time has actually come and gone, but I have a really good excuse for being late! I was on a roll this weekend and didn’t want to stop stitching to post! Unlike in months past, I pulled out my TLOTDT project several days before the post deadline of Saturday. I was determined to stitch more than just a few hours on this project this month!
This is what I started with from last month.
And this was my progress after a few days of stitching this month.
It doesn’t look like much because most of the stitching was done in the white petals, but there is some tan back-stitching in there also. I did get to move on to one of the leaves and was super excited to stitch with something other than white or cream!
And then I realized something. I stitched the green incorrectly!!!! UGH!!! I accidentally stitched it using two threads instead of three!!!! Frogging time! (You can see my frogged threads in the pic below.) After ripping out my progress in the leaf and re-stitching using the correct number of threads, this is what it looks like now.
I finished the rest of the leaf and did a little more back-stitching in the petals.
I am super proud of my progress considering my stitching on this project has been pitiful these last few months! This is not a project I usually enjoy stitching, but it was a pleasure seeing progress this weekend.
It’s time for this month’s YOTA post.
I have continued to work on The Legend of the Dogwood Tree project. I didn’t get very much done, but some progress was made.
I got some stitches in two of the leaves of the bottom flower. I know it pretty much looks the same as last month, but I promise there are some new stitches in there!
I was hoping to get more accomplished this month as my progress on this piece has been dismal. Although I am not fond of the fabric or stitching with three threads, I am beginning to like the project a bit more. Maybe I can be motivated to work a little harder on this one.
Happy 4th of July!