My First IHSW (This Project is Cursed...)

Hey Blog Buddies,

Over the weekend, I participated in my first International Hermit and Stitch Weekend, and it was quite fun to be stitching along (virtually) with so many fellow stitchers, and then be able to visit their blogs to see what they did.  Here is what I accomplished on the Uptown Stitcher:

Starting with just a few lines of backstitching

in the lower left corner,

I stitched almost half of the background.

It's a criss-crossed backstitch

(Alicia stitch)

done on the diagonal,

and it's really time consuming.

I spent a lot of hours on it

both on Saturday and Sunday.

Although the Alicia stitch

done in this exact color

was listed as a background option,

the photo showed a different background,

with much of the white canvas left unstitched

(a design element I still have a hard time with).

I also redid her little shopping bag:

Yes, I'm aware the design is a little off center (sigh).

This is the second time I've put this little bag together

(after ripping it out the first time)

and I think it would fall apart if I went for a third go-round.

But that's not even the worst part.

Here's the bag where it will

eventually be placed in the finished piece.

Yes, it stands out because it's 3-dimensional,

but to me it looks way too tone-on-tone

next to the background color.

That's all I'm going to do on her for now.

When she comes back up in the rotation,

I'll decide whether I want to rip out the background,

redo (from scratch) the shopping bag (probaby not!)

or leave it the way it is.

I look forward to participating in

many more IHSW weekends.

They are the third weekend of every month.

To find out more about them, go here.

Hope your weekend was productive.

Thanks for visiting!