Bulletin Board of Doom!

My cork bulletin board arrived last week.  And I was dismayed.  You see, I have this problem with seeing measurements but not really visualizing them.  So, Amazon had some boards listed of various sizes and I imagined them holding CG and figured they were way too small.  Then I found one that is 4' x 3' and I thought that should work perfectly!

When it arrived and I saw just how big it really is and then listened to G and K teasing me about needing to build an addition on to the house just to store the darn thing...Dismay.

CG is less than 30" square with margins for framing.

Yes.  I need adult supervision.  And a measuring tape.

So, to console myself I decided that the cork board can be used for multiple projects that need to be blocked!  But when I ran this one by my mom she asked me how many projects I anticipate blocking all at the same time...

Consolation - gone.

Now I have the ginormous Bulletin Board of Doom and Blocking happily stretching CG while it leans against my closet door in my bedroom.

Speaking of blocking...It's hard to do.  I think I don't like it lol.  Of course, it could be argued that my choice to use quilting pins was not the smartest way to go about it.  Push pins are probably the way to go.  I are dumb.  In any event, I'm not convinced it will change the condition of the linen in any appreciable way.  Would work better if I could have dampened the fabric.  But alas...silk threads.  So pretty, so impractical.

On the stitching front, AtW is coming along nicely.  I've got parts 8 and 9 finished and am over halfway done with part 10.  

Part 8 is really a 2 part section:








Part 9 was fun, although the Bokhara Couching was a pain in the butt.






So that's where things stand with projects so far.

Moving on

So, I've ironed the snot out of CG and have it hanging on a pants hanger in my room.  It's still got some wrinkles on it, so I'm going to try dry blocking it.  My cork bulletin board should arrive today so tomorrow I'm going to try pinning it nice and tight and see how things go.

Meanwhile, I have started stitching again on Around the World in 80 Stitches.  I just finished Part 7.  This section consisted of two-sided triangular Turkish stitch, Maltese Cross and Lefkhara Lace.  The Maltese Cross was really fun to work up, and I really enjoyed doing the whipped backstitch on the Lefkhara Lace section.  Yeah - I'd never done whipped backstitch before!  I might just go back and whip the light green backstitches to make them stand out more.  

Anyway, here's Part 7 completed


And here's the entire design thus far

Aaaaaand she's.....

Done!

She needs some more ironing.  I can't use high heat with steam because of the silk threads, so I've got it hung in the bathroom for now, in hopes that humidity from showers will help the fabric relax and flatten a little.  I'm also going to get a cork board tomorrow and try to dry block it. Hopefully between that and the stretching at the framer it will come out will with no wrinkles or puckers.  Depending on when the shop opens I might be able to get it in before next weekend.

I've dug out the next project to get finished - Around the World in 80 Stitches.

Onward!

Soooooo close!

This is all that's left to be stitched. Then to get the rest of the beads on. 

I'm hoping to have her ready for the framer this weekend!