Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Cross stitch--what's next?

I've been working on this picture since this summer. Cross stitching of course. It's almost finished. All that's left is to do the back stitching. Once finished, it's going to hang in my dining room. I should be able to finish it this week. And I'm excited to finish! I love finishing a project, but then, I immediately am ready to start another project. In fact, I'm itching to start on a couple of different things, and I can't figure out which one I want to do first.

I'm dying to do this one...
It's called "Mom's Kitchen". Kev and I saw it stitched up at the Kansas State Fair this year. I fell in LOVE with it--because it has all the colors in my kitchen, and it has a lot of the "old crap" that I use for decorations in my kitchen. I'm not sure where it will wind up when it's finished because my walls are almost full of "old crap." But, I'll find a home for it. I really want to start on making this for myself. But...should I do this, or should I finish the other 3 or 10 kits that are patiently sitting in my To Do box?

Then there's this project. I bought these transfer patterns--"Happy Gadgets" last year along with...



These tea towels.... or wait...maybe it's....


THESE tea towels... I need to look. But, they would be a break from a BIG project, and would go really fast and might even be a good thing to whip up for a Christmas Present...
Anyone have any suggestions? Cause I really need to decide quickly on my next stitchin' project. And, who knows, I might even take your advice and stitch what you suggest!




3 comments:

agent713 said...

I'd do the towels. Get them out of the way, get the rush of finishing them and then move into the big project. It's gorgeous by the way. I love it.

I just picked my stitching back up as well. I had to rip 3/4ths of what I had completed out but now I've redone more than that.

Shelljo said...

I finished it last night. (Just need to wash and press it...and get it framed).

I looked at the towels, and decided that I should do them. I've got other transfers and ideas to make for christmas presents that will go fast, so I'm going to take your advice! I'm going to do my gadget towels, and then maybe some coffee ones...then one other idea--I've got some colored tea towels and I think I'm going to try something special on them too. Then I'll go back to Mom's Kitchen and do it. After it's completed, I have several others I can do :)

Thanks Heidi!

tosin said...

I agree with Heidi. Sometimes you need the small victories to give you the momentum to take on the larger projects. That Mom's Kitchen is amazing! Have fun with it!