Another start and some progress on my UFOs

After finishing my Autumn piece, I decided to pull out a different Prairie Schooler chart I had kitted up and work on that for a change in scenery. So I am stitching "Peace on Earth" from retired book 81 called Songs of the Season. When I first got this booklet, this piece just caught my eye and started screaming, "Stitch me! Stitch me!" so I stretched the fabric onto the Q-snap framing on Sunday night and have been working on it since. Although my sinuses have been infected, I have been stitching on this piece when I feel up to it and hopefully my stitching will be picking up soon. The house reminds me of my Granny's house when I was growing up. She had a yellow 2 story house and my Mom talked a lot of riding on wagons and sleighs growing up.

Of course, many of you have encouraged me to start "The Musician" by Joan Elliot and while I did pull out my chart, I want to make sure I have all my threads and fabric prepped and ready to go. I might start this one the end of January/beginning of February ~ we'll see but I would like to get at least one UFO under my belt before this project.

Speaking of UFO's: I-am-this-close to finishing Lizzie Kate's Merry Friends and I will be so, so, so glad to finish up with the Wisper thread! I worked some on this piece this week and it seems to take forever since the thread has to be cut so short to work with. However, I am making progress and if you live on the Northeast side of the United States, I'm sure you'll hear me singing as I'm doing the happy dance around my living room when this is completed.

I have even made a little progress on Blue Ribbon Design's Tiny Trees and Gifts for Thee which I guess will be one of the next UFO's on the rotation schedule. This little beast of a project has 100 (yes 100!) blocks of very cute designs and I did finish up one block this weekend. I am hoping to work a few blocks each week and hopefully by the end of 2011 I can count this as a completed project. Let's see, I had to go back to February 2010 to find any updates on my blog for this piece and I would guess it has been that long since it had seen the light of day. I love the design and the colors on this but I think the constant changing threads and a few questions I still need to have answered about the chart turned me off on this one. I think the next time I go to my LNS I will take the chart along and ask them what the designer meant by the way she had charted some of the areas and then I'll just put on my big girl panties and get to work. Here is a few pictures to show you what I have managed to get accomplished ~ Gee I have over a 1/4 of the blocks done....

Before.....
This week's progress.....


Of course, I do plan on starting to work again on my Lizzie Kate Monthly Stamp-It series and went so far as to see what I had to do to complete the months I have already worked on. There is just little things like finishing up the background color on some blocks or small little detail stitching in some blocks which will go quick. My last update on this UFO was July2010 and I was working on June at that time. This one is definitely coming out of the bottom of the bag when Merry Friends is completed and you can help hold me to the cork screws to get this one done. You have no idea how much I am being encouraged by reading all the wonderful, witty, caring remarks you leave me on my blog and for this I am so grateful.