A Finish - At Last
Yay, I finished my Edge of the Week (a.k.a. Hungarian Band Sampler or HBS) - at last. It was a doomed project; the original idea was (2 or 3 years ago) that I was going to stich one band per week (I chose the bands from several books), but this plan soon sank to the bottom of the UFO ocean. Not a long time ago I decided I wanted to finish several WIPs because I just did not feel comfortable with the number of ongoing stitching projects, and the HBS was one of them. As I mentioned before I hated every single minute, every single stitch that I spent with it, but I soldiered on up until the very last row. In the end I even ran out of floss so I needed to order some more, and if all the obnoxious issues (the color of the fabric, some shades in the floss, the monotony of the repeated motifs) hadn’t been enough, the new floss turned out to be quite different than the original batch (darker in tones, and not as many shades as the first group). Oh well, to be honest, I could not care less.
The (very) good news is that I love all the WIPs that are left to finish so that I can feel comfortable with the number of my ongoing projects, so (hopefully) no more wining and procrastination any more (haha).
Here it is, a few snapshots of the completed piece (it is very, very long and skinny so I haven’t even tried to take a picture of the whole sampler; these images are mostly the new parts).