No Slow stitching

Yesterday, Sunday is set aside for some slow Sunday stitching. Those of you who follow my blog know I have a variety of different projects on the go at any one time and I work on them in no particular order . The only time this changes is if I have a deadline I need to meet. My only deadline at the moment is to finish John's jumper but I need a break from it for a few days. Even with a break it should be finished by the end of the week. The jumper is in an aran weight wool and therefore rather heavy. My arms need a bit of a rest.

I was thinking about what stitching to do yesterday when I decided that I'd sort out my various embroidery projects before I got started. I had recently been given some cross stitch kits and I knew there were some of the free kits from magazines in amongst them. These I don't usually stitch up. I tend to keep the fabric and the embroidery floss and use them to make gift tags. 

I started by culling the unwanted freebie cross stitch kits. I ended up with a pile of floss and smaller pieces of Aida and even-weave. Next I got my project note book and made a list of all the projects. I originally had 6 embroidery pieces I was working on but now I have 24 listed. The ones I had been given I checked carefully to ensure the kits were complete. 

In looking at my 6 original projects I found that I had a bag lady missing! I know I had Thelma but she seems to have gone walk about.

I had started to stitch Thelma but hadn't finished her. I turned my sewing cupboard upside down but to no avail. I just can't find her anywhere. 

As I went through more of my projects I realised that I couldn't find the cat cross stitch I had been working on.

Maybe the cat has run off with Thelma to have a better life. I need to have a serious search for them both, especially Thelma as I'm one bag lady short of enough for a full quilt.

By the time I'd logged all the projects having gone through my embroidery bag it was too late for slow Sunday stitching but I had a much better idea of what I need to do and finish. I need to work out a way to rotate the projects so they all get worked on.

Today I've been at work and got home quite late so I ended up watching TV to relax. Hopefully tomorrow night I'll get home earlier and get some time for stitching.

Lyndsey