I think I can. I think I can. I think I can

make it work. It’s taken a lot of fussing and fiddling, but here it is–the embellished sections pinned to the jacket.

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Can’t help myself

Oh, I’ve gotten such wonderful answers to my question about why I’m enjoying myself so much working on this project. I think they are all right, and I plan to write about what conclusions I’ve reached with the help of these responses. But right now, I’m under pressure. (Aren’t I ALWAYS?)
During this period while I’m [...]

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The perfect gray and a question

First, I haven’t been posting because I’m saving the time for stitching. I’m not even keeping up with everyone else’s blogs. I’m not even reading the newspaper. I’m using all my “active” time for stitching. Now to the point of this post.
In the solid part of each paisley, I have used five different shades of [...]

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Fussing and fiddling

Although I’ve been making steady progress on my jacket embellishments, I haven’t posted them because each paisley is stitched like the others. I’ve never done such repetitious stitching, and I’m enjoying it. But there has been a bit of learning along the way.
To be able to stitch all the sections near edges, I’ve had to [...]

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Jacket progress

I’ve been making steady, though slow, progress on the embellishing of my jacket. There have been more experiments on practice cloths, and the arrival of the final (yes!) order of threads. No matter what, I am going to finish with the materials I have on hand. Here is a shot of the first finished section, [...]

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Struggling

I think this project has been a struggle for me because it wasn’t fully planned out in advance. Once I got the idea of using the scarf, I just went ahead, cutting and improvising, not thinking it through step-by-step, not anticipating possible problems and planning ways of dealing with them.
After I had decided to use [...]

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