The Bumbling Stitcher

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Today it seems that a more appropriate title of this blog would have been The Bumbling Stitcher.  The project that I'm currently stitching is the Cross-Eyed Cricket's "Snow Patches"--a snowman design.  (I realize that I had a little hissy fit in my last post about the snow, but pictures of snowmen are generally cute.  Go figure.)  I had a 9-inch square piece of confederate gray linen which I had chosen for another design that was deep-sixed.  It was too similar to the "Winter" piece that I did right after Christmas.  So why not use the linen on "Snow Patches"?

OK, this design is not quite square,

but I thought it would be doable.

The background of the piece is a little 20 years ago,

so I decided to change the colorway.

I didn't want holiday colors,

so decided to go with "different."

Katie, bar the door!

In the meantime, I'm stitching along

on the snowman, and his bottom half

is getting perilously close to the lower edge of the fabric.

The only part of the fabric that you don't see

is the selvedge which does not reach the

edge of the bottom clip.

I thought it was prudent to just stop at this point.

I decided against doing the top hat,

so now he has a National Park Service Ranger type of hat,

which makes him look a little like Clem Kadiddlehopper.

(Sorry, all you wonderful Rangers!)

Here's what it looks like so far:

He has a different personality than his cousin.
He's chubbier and a lot less sophisticated.

I'm still not sure about the flying geese design

that is making an appearance in the upper right corner.

It's a shame that all the confederate gray

will be covered up.

I really like it.

Is this going to turn out to be quirky

or just a hot mess?

Time will tell, since this is all being done on the fly.

I almost never change any part of

the design of a project.

There's probably a good reason for that!

I should at least get some graph paper

before trying something like this again.

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