March 24-25, 2008

Forging on in my effort to get out of my stitching slump, I stitched at dialysis today. I continued working on the border with the intention of finishing it at home tonight. As you can tell by the picture, the stitching at home part didn't happen.

On Tuesday, my non-dialysis day, I spent the day sorting my charts in to three categories: "I want to stitch ASAP," "I'll get around to stitching," and "I'll never stitch." I'm going to take the "I'll never stitch" and some of the I'll get around to stitching with me to Sue's so that she and Laura can look through them and take what they want. So I now have a pile that's the "I'll loan out, but want back," too. I'm being brutally honest about what I'll stitch in the future, so the I'll never stitch pile is growing. I guess I can't call my stitching slump over. I didn't get any stitching done last night at home or today.

My I want to stitch ASAP pile is becoming my 2009 stitching list, but there's about 50 charts in the bin. I've got to pare that down to around 25.

So far I have:

Heart In Hand
Good to Be Home
Liberty*
Wee Stitch*
We One-4th of July Bird*
Wee One-Flags*
Dog Sampler*
Stars Sampler*

Little House Needleworks
Dog House Sampler*
Stars & Stripes*
Home of a Needleworker (too!)*
Brave Hearts*
Home of a Needleworker*
America*
A Stitcher's Prayer*
Needlework School*
Necessities Sampler*
Captain's Inn
Dear Diary-Abigail Winslow, 1780
Dear Diary-Mary Heaton, 1878
Dear Diary-Elizabeth McGuire, 1763

The Sweetheart Tree
Americana Hearts*
God Bless America Teddy*
Dog In-Dog Out*

With Humble Heart
To Thine Own Self Be True
We Gather Together*

Shepard's Bush
Monthly Musings-Flag*
A Year In Stitches-February*

Rosewood Manor
American Flag Quilt Sampler*
America! Land That I Love!*

Dinky-Dyes Designs
Southern Stars*
Terra Australis*

Just Nan
Common Ground*
Queen of the Needle*

Elizabeth's Designs
Midnight Clear*
Nature's Alphabet*

Heirloom Embroideries
Medley*
Charmed Dreams*

Told in a Garden
Amish Quilt Sampler*

Lizzie*Kate
Snippet-God Bless America*

The Trilogy
Dog Treat

Angel Stitchin
Meow *

Glory Bee
America*

Waxing Moon Designs
Patriotic Blocks

Bent Creek
Stars Zipper Kit*

Blue Ribbon Designs
Stitches, Stars, and Stripes*

Wild-Heart Designs
Sarah Edwards 1796*

Linen Flowers
Golden Gift*

Jeannette Douglas Designs
Take Time to Stitch too*

Hob-Nobb Designs
I Love Stitching

Hinzeit
Mini Block: Freedom*

Poppy Creations
Buttoned Quilts*

Country Cottage Needleworks
Cowboy Dreams

Plum Pudding Needleart
Cherry Pick'n

The charts with an asterisk are the ones I want stitched yesterday!