Progress!
Although I've been absent from blogland for awhile, I've been plugging away at a few of my projects. The picture above shows my progress on Harvest Time, a counted canvas piece by Laura J. Perin. It was offered as a three week class (ha!) last year, but became a UFO and one of my pieces for the duClay EGA yearly challenge. I'm skipping around on it a lot because I don't enjoy working with the metallic ribbon. I do love the grapes as they are a padded stitch and that gives them a bit more texture I'm now at 73 bottles and counting on Ink Circles 99 Bottles. I didn't meet my self-imposed deadline of finishing by March, but the end is in sight. This is another one of my EGA challenge pieces. Last year I finished four out of ten pieces for the challenge and one of those was just under the wire. So I feel I'm a bit farther ahead this year. Piecing continues on Toes in the Sand and I'm hoping for a finish in early May. I've bee