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This week, in addition to the TAST already posted, I concentrated on Birds of a Feather and the December color palette/crazy quilt journal/bead journal project square. Given that the color palette challenge this month didn't quite "fit" with my other eleven squares, I deciede to do an alternate, based on the block 6 grid form from the "I dropped the Button Box Quilt" and six colors that were used more than once in the previous eleven blocks... Here is that alternate: The rest of my st…

I pretty much spent this past week working on the Michael Powell "Home Sampler" although I did take a day off to do Color Through the Ages, another day off to do TAST and last night off to go see New York Polyphony in concert at the university (if you like medieval music and male a capella quartets, this is a MUST SEE!). Anyway, here is where "Home" stands at this minute:

This is the "Beaver Moon" and I have made the following progress since the last full moon... What did I do this past "moon"? FInishes were • the Take a Stitch Tuesday stitches: Fixed base woven picot, Open base woven picot, checkered chain, and Portuguese Border Stitch • "Kimono - Revisited" • The November Color Palette Challenge/Crazy Quilt Journal/Bead Journal Project block • Color Through the Ages lessons 8 (Chinese Colors) and 9 (Mod World…

This week, I caught up on the pale blue fan stitches in the border for "Birds of a Feather": Completed the latest assignments of Color Trough the Ages and TAST 2012, picked fabrics for the November Color Palette Challenge : and started on the last 13 sections of "Kimono - Revisited" (got three sections done in three hours!): I also went shopping for a new project (a class online called "Stupendous Stitching") but failed miserably in my quest for basic supplies (Michaels has…

I continued on with "Birds of a Feather" and actually got started on the metallic threads! Maybe you can see some of the bling in the right-hand and top borders? I suppose I could have continued but my conscience was bothering me --- so many pieces sitting there, unstitched! So on Friday... First, I tackled Take a Stitch Tuesday week 38, Drizzle Stitch. Keep in mind I HATE threading needles and I'm not a fan of "knots" so this one was hard for me to do but here are five "Drizzles" in a…

I put in a total of 2032 stitches in on "Birds of a Feather" this weekend and only have two more DMC colors to go before I have to start on metallics, speciality stitches and beads! So it was a good weekend!

Except for completing the eye-candy challenge for TAST and printing out the new charts for Janet Perry's Stash Buster and Mittens & Mini-Socks series, all I did this week was stitch on "Birds of a Feather". Progress is slow but it is progress (two colors complete in the birds in the center and on to the third color, and all central motifs are now placed and at least have a little stitching in them!):