Friday Finish - Sardinian Filet

Pendant and two pairs of earrings

 

Work In Progress Wednesday

Yesterday (July 30th) was World Embroidery Day, which began in 2011 as a day to celebrate stitching. I hope you were able to stitch to your heart's content! 

Now, on to this week's progress --

Clover Cutter Cover and Fob

 Japanese Pattern 16 

Christmas Treasures Afghan progress

Sardinian Filet

Work In Progress Wednesday

Japanese Pattern 15

Christmas Treasures Afghan progress

Sardinian Filet progress

In the Fall of 2019, I took a Mediteranean cruise with a group of stitchers. When the ship stopped in Sardinia, I was one of twelve, who opted to take a class in Sardinian Filet. After the class, I didn't finish the project, and now, going on five years later, I picked it up again and stitched the upper right corner. We'll see if I can actually finish it!

People's Choice - Travel

Every month, on the first Saturday, Jo at Serendipidous Stitching hosts a Stitch A Long, with the topics chosen by her readers. This month's topic is Travel. 

I have stitched two maps of the US.

I stitched this map of Japan on an afghan and gave it as a gift.

In Fall 2019, I took a stitching cruise on the Mediterranean Sea with Sandy Arthur.  The needlepoint bracelet and ornaments were projects representing places on this trip.

This still unfinished Sardinian Filet piece was a class that a few of us from the cruise took when we were in Sardinia.

Thank you Jo for hosting this link up!

Finish It In 2019 - Last Finish It Post for 2019

I wasn't able to finish all that I started, but I did finish a good bit. So, first the finishes since the last post. You can see all of my Finish It in 2019 items here.

Felt Wrist Pin Cushion

Started 2019, Finished 2019

Cabin Fever

Started 2019, Finished 2019

Cathedral Windows Mug Rug

Started 2019, Finished 2019

Beaded Cherry Fobs

Started 2019, Finished 2019

And the other things I started in 2019, but not yet finished --

The stitching is finished on the following, but they need to be made into proper ornaments.

Finish It in 2019 - December

Before I get to my stitching report - My gadgets have recently done an automatic update and I find I can not comment on most blogs any more.  There are a few that still show my name, but most have an empty box and "Google Account", that I can't change.  I don't know what the difference is between the few I can still comment and those that I can't.  Does anyone know how I can change this and be able to comment again? Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

This year I will finish what I start, and finish some other things too.

Finishes

Since my last Finish It post, I have finished 

November ornament

Started 2019, Finished 2019

New Starts - 2019

Maybe not so good. Here we are so close to the end of the year and I have so many new projects unfinished!

You can see all of my Finish It In 2019 here.

Check out Magical Quilt's post to find out more about Finish It In 2019.

Sardinia and the Sardinian Filet Class

Breakfast was an early morning buffet, because we needed to be off the ship as soon as it landed. Time was precious because we had to be back on the ship by 2:30 pm that day.

Teacher and group leader Sandy Arthur had made arrangements for twelve of us to take a Sardinian Filet class with Italian teachers (and an interpreter). Four taxis were to pick us up and take us to the place where the class would be held. While waiting for the taxis to arrive we saw these interesting birds eating.

The class was held in a building that was some kind of museum.  The Italian teachers had some examples of their work, with some items available for purchase.

Each student received a frame with the netting already made. The two teachers went around the table to get each student started.

The man standing on the left is the interpreter.

We all could have continued with the project, but we had to stop so that we could see the museum upstairs and eat some delicious Italian snacks that were prepared for us, before going back to the ship by taxi.

This is what mine looked like at the end of the class.

I continued working on my coasters/ornaments when we got back on the ship.

For the first time on the trip, the waters turned a little rough.  The crew on the ship posted these throw up bags in the elevators, along the staircases, and in other public locations - just in case.  Fortunately, I didn't need to make use of them!

It was a good day and we traveled on to Spain the next day.