June Turtle Trot--More Turtle than Hare

Hey Blog Buddies,
Claudette over at BAP Attack is hosting the Turtle Trot SAL.  At the beginning of the year, we were to choose 10 of our WIPs, and then do progress reports on them on the 10th of each month.   This year many of the WIPs that I chose were BAPs that I really wanted to make significant progress on this year.  I worked on five of them this month which, for me, is really good.  We'll start with the "Turtles":

 Here is Ink Circles' 99 as of last month.

And here's my progress this month.  Yes, only one bottle!

And it's the simplest bottle so far.

I'd love to get the second shelf finished by next month,

but I make no promises.

The wolves are back!

Here's where I was last month with Cross My Heart's Mates.

 And here's my progress this month.

His second eye is started,

hiding in plain sight among all the confetti.

I didn't get much time to stitch on this piece this month,

hopefully more substantial progress will be made next month.

 Here is Cindy Valentine's Pristine hardanger table topper

as of last month.

This is actually white, as is the background of Mates, above.

The eyelets in the triangle on the right

were all I did last month.

Here's the progress this month,

another small triangle of eyelets...

...and a start on one of the large triangles of eyelets.

Here's the entire piece, to give you a sense of scale.

There are over 1,100 eyelets in this piece!

If all I do is finish stitching the eyelets by the end of this year,

I'll be happy.

Ah, yes, our old favorite Needle Delights Originals' Winter Logs.
I was pretty close to a finish last month.

And I did finish it.  Woo hoo!

No surprise there, as it's already been documented.

Last but not least, Debbie Stiehler's Autumn Pumpkin Patch.

Here's where I left off last month.

A month ago I decided to spend
the vast majority of my time and effort

on this piece and went straight into "Hare" mode.

Yay--another finish!
I'm really glad this one is done.
All of the smaller sections were 
repeated five times,
and there was so much laying of
4, 5 and even 6 strands of floss
that it was driving me crazy!
If you've never had to lay threads,
I'm here to tell you that it really slows you down!

One last close-up.

It's at the finisher's as we speak.

Hopefully I'll have one more photo, that of the finished pumpkin,

to show you next month.

That's it from here.

Hope you're getting some stitching time in.

Thanks for visiting!