Arcadia complete

I finished on Thursday, but finally have a chance to post. Here is Arcadia! This was a lot of fun to do. Jim Wurth designed it such that opposite sections on the outer border have the same sequence of stitches, but in slightly different colors and in different directions. This gave an interesting learning experience to see how just changing the smallest thing can have a big impact. You might be able to see a bit of the outer sections in the close-up of the middle.

I really like the center section, too. That might make a good ornament on its own!

All but the beads...

Well, after the weekend I slowed down. I've only been able to stitch about an hour a night for the past few days. So, now I just have to add 5 beads to the middle of each Jessica stitch (the little circles) to finish Arcadia...I'll finish up tomorrow night during our Thursday sit-n-stitch at the LNS. I'm also bringing along the Gay Ann Rogers mystery sampler to get the borders prepped for the next window.

Zipping along on Arcadia

Thanks to "Itching to Stitch" for the comment on my last post - it gave me the title for this one! Arcadia is moving along nicely, due to alternating rain and humid heat outside and nice cool A/C inside!

Arcadia - more progress!

Here's what it looked like when I picked it up yesterday morning. While these areas have lots of layering, they're not that difficult. I'm always curious to see what the end pattern looks like in a section, so I have a hard time putting it down!

I did finish the last four outside sections yesterday, but didn't take a pic. I hope to share one after work today.

Arcadia borders complete

Here is Arcadia as I left it last night (ok, very early this morning!). I made quite a bit of progress on it today, and will take another picture in the morning.

May recap & June goals

It's a new month! Here what I accomplished relative to my goals for May:

• Complete GAR mystery window 1 - DONE!
• Complete the background on the goldwork heart - DONE!
• Start GAR mystery window 2 - Started and finished!
• I probably won't get to start the next Jim Wurth installment that comes out the week of the 15th, but we'll see. - Nope. I didn't get the kit until yesterday!

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For June, I'd like to:

• Complete Jim Wurth's Arcadia (started yesterday)
• Start and finish GAR mystery window 3.
• Get the tree done on Picnic Hampered! (started at seminar)
• Work on Examplar IV
• Work on Goldwork Heart II

My stretch goal is to finish Picnic Hampered!