12 Down, 4 To Go

I finished #12 a little while ago and did a half-assed photo shoot on the kitchen floor.

I filled in with a few of the granny squares. 

The little tags correspond to the numbers in the pattern. I erroneously started an octagon and got as far as the fans only to realize I was following the colours of one of the grannies and there were no fans, or any other rounds. I'm keeping that erroneous one and will finish it as one of the 4 extras once I'm done the original 16 octagons. There will be more than enough yarn to do more tiles. I might even be able to crank out 8 more as I'm just finishing the first ball (of 3) of Buttermilk.

I don't have a deadline in mind - they're just so addicting to crochet. I finish one colour and have to start the next colour right away.

At stitching on Monday I hauled out the long-neglected Newcastle Bouquet which I abandoned back in  2022. I did a bit on it at my last Elim retreat last fall. I had taken several UFOs and on the Friday spent an hour on each one. I plan to do that again at this fall's retreat.

One thing that held me up was the transition from one page of the chart to the one below. This was printed before Teresa used a three-row shaded area to align pages. So today I made working copies and taped each page to the one below. That should help with finishing the basket and lower motifs.

One big modification I did was doing the letters in Algerian eyelets rather than clusters of four cross stitches.

I only had to modify a couple of letters - K and R - from the original pattern. 

I'm motivated to do more work on this project. 

Jeanette has an ambitions plan to fully finish one project a week. Finishing takes a long time and includes locating all the necessary materials, deciding on what and where to cut, whether to pad with batting or not, what trims will be used, etc. I have a stack of projects I've finished stitching that need to be fully finished as well. I'm setting my goal at finishing one every month.

Although I enjoy the stitching and am OK with not finishing things right away, I do have some cute projects that really should get fully finished.

Hard to believe September starts tomorrow.