April Yota Update

YOTA is hosted by Pull The Other Thread blog.

Last month around this time I was feeling a bit under the weather so I didn't post a YOTA update, but I have one for you today!!

The last time I updated my YOTA project it looked like this...

 

This is Birds of a Feather Mystery Sampler by With thy Needle and Thread.

 

And here I am now. I wanted to get that silly 2nd bird done, but she conspired with a frog and had to have her head chopped off due to a mistake!! :) Only 5 more leaves on that tree left to do as well. So I'm hoping that by next month everything on this tree will be done and I will move on to some easy stitching and maybe get the alphabet done that is above and beside the tree. I'm super excited to see this project moving along!!

 

Now I'm off to make a birthday cake for my mother in law. Yep, her birthday is on Easter this year. When she asked what I wanted to bring for Easter I said that I would bring her a Lemon Birthday Cake (that is her fav) and a broccoli bake dish (not her fav). :O)

YOTA Challenge - Feb 2015

The YOTA Challenge is a fun SAL so that we can show off our stitching progress once a month. It is hosted by Pull the Other Thread.

I've chosen to focus on 'Birds of a Feather Mystery' from With Thy Needle and Thread. Here is where I was before...

 And where I am now...

Other than the bad lighting for this photo:) I'm really happy with my progress. Also, there was very little frogging this time, and that is always a good thing!! I'm really looking forward to seeing this one complete by the end of the year.

YOTA Check In - Jan 2015

Time for the first YOTA check in of the year!! YOTA is hosted by Pull the Other Thread. Join in when ever you like.

Yesterday I posted the 10 projects I am going to focus on this year for the Turtle Trot SAL, and I had thought I would just use one of those projects for my YOTA project as well, but what fun would that be?!?!? So I found another project that I want to focus on for this - actually I still have several UFO projects that I could have chosen from - I really hope to get a few finished this year!!

My YOTA project will be 'Birds of a Feather Mystery SAL' from With thy Needle and Thread/Brenda Gervias. This Mystery SAL was from a couple years ago and I really enjoyed working on it for quite a while. Here is where it's started from...

 And where it is now...

 

More work went into this than it looks like!! I'm pretty sure I stopped working on this because of a mistake I had made the first time around on the tree trunk. I didn't remember that when I picked this projects to work on - otherwise I probably wouldn't have picked it, as it was I almost put it back!! I had miscounted way down on the 5th row of the trunk, and I may have decided that I could just work with it and so left it that way. Well, as I got higher up on the tree, it started causing problems with alignment, so I frogged about half the trunk and patched in the repair. It's all better now, but goodness that took some time!! I'm happy to report that I'm back to enjoying this piece and hope to make lots of progress on it this year!!

 

The rest of this weekend it going to be dedicated to fixing a mistake on the wrap I am currently knitting. I think I need to pay more attention to my projects and less to Downton Abbey!! :)