Slow Sunday Stitching - January 12, 2025 AND Needlework Changeover for 2025 Rotation #1, Slot #1 (Historic)

We got more snow - a total of 18 inches / 45 cm!  Every time we get more or less shoveled out, we get more winter weather - ice again last night (sigh).  I'm already SO over winter.

Good crafting time though!

I finished up the ten hours on my Blackbird Designs project that's in the Historic slot of my rotation.   "Blessings and Kind Wishes" - Loose Feather's #31.  I got the top three lines of lettering on the left, and the entire wreath on the right top quadrant completed.  I even established the very top of the right-side zigzag border.

And where I started this rotation for comparison.  (Fabric color is truer in the picture below).

Next time up, I'll do the scene of the storks on their nest inside the wreath and try to do the center line of the lettering with the clusters of eyelet grapes on both the ends. There's a lot more stitching in this little sampler than it first appears, and that's not even considering the house that fills the bottom right corner entirely!

Next up is the Plaza Sewing Bag - the upper border on the second side.  The first side took about 15 hours, so I expect this round will take about the same - maybe a bit less because the basting is already done on this side.   Each repeat of the border scrollwork motif is indicated by the vertical yellow basting.  I've got nearly an hour in on this round; rice stitch is SLOW!

I've kept up so far on both the 'temperature stitch a day' and the goal of 100 stitches per day on Mead Dragon.  There won't be pictures on those until the end of the month, but at least there's some small progress every day.

The travel project got another movie and a couple of episodes of Murdoch Mysteries; I should probably just acknowledge it as the winter 'TV watching project' since I'm not driving in the mess outside unless I absolutely must - therefore no actual 'travel' stitching has occurred!  It is now at 1,300 stitches.   The bottom half up to the scarf is done other than beads and a few detail stitches.  Next up - Santa gets the rest of his scarf, a head, and a hat!  Then there is the tree he is carrying and a bird perched atop it.

Linking up with the SSS crew (this week's roundup is here).  Dela and I are hunkered down and enjoying the snow days.   Though she doesn't think highly of the snowplows; they were working on our street last night and she woke me up barking at the noise and had appropriated the bed in the time I walked out to the living room to see what was going on😏.