The question for the month is:
“How do you get yourself out of a stitching drought?”
Good question. Since I was in such a drought for nearly two years because fo try aftermath of a broken left wrist, I’m not really a good source for a solution. I managed to “force” myself into a finish back in April and even that didn’t have a permanent effect. I tried to use the second stitch-a-day challenge with new pieces and it seemed to be working until…
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July 16 (I missed a day because of a late night after two days of house guests following an exhausting road trip to and from Wisconsin) and then July 24, when I ruptured the extensor tendon to my left thumb (yes, the same hand I broke!) and ended up in surgery on July 26. The cast makes stitching, or any other two-handed activity, impossible.
“How do you get yourself out of a stitching drought?”
Good question. Since I was in such a drought for nearly two years because fo try aftermath of a broken left wrist, I’m not really a good source for a solution. I managed to “force” myself into a finish back in April and even that didn’t have a permanent effect. I tried to use the second stitch-a-day challenge with new pieces and it seemed to be working until…
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July 16 (I missed a day because of a late night after two days of house guests following an exhausting road trip to and from Wisconsin) and then July 24, when I ruptured the extensor tendon to my left thumb (yes, the same hand I broke!) and ended up in surgery on July 26. The cast makes stitching, or any other two-handed activity, impossible.
And it will continue to be impossible until well after cast removal on August 12, 2019, because Physical Therapy will be require to get function back. This is practically a replay of the wrist break events and I expect it will result in similar stitchery impacts.
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I did accomplish some stitchery this month, however. There was the finish on July 7 of a Michael Powell "twinchie", floss on 18ct canvas:
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I did accomplish some stitchery this month, however. There was the finish on July 7 of a Michael Powell "twinchie", floss on 18ct canvas:
There was the stitching on a road trip on a kit, "Leopord Purse" by Design Works (Marilyn Robertson), floss on 14ct Aida, between July 10 and 13:
And the stitching on a second Michael Powell twinchie between July 8 and July 23:
Two frogging attacks in the second twinchie and a massive mistake in color choice in the aida piece (which I decided to live with as I didn't discover the mistake until three days in) did not help with the motivation.
All in all, the month started out good and fell apart at the end.
All in all, the month started out good and fell apart at the end.
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