Tiny Needle Tuesday

 

I'm closing in on finishing the next to the last row of the Garden. I've still got all the background white to do before I head down to the very last row so it will still be awhile before this is a FO. 

I had an aha moment with the needlepoint project this week. It wasn't with the front.

It was with the back. See how the stitches lie differently? Some are shaggy and some are neat. You actually want the shaggy back stitches in order to get good coverage but I'm more worried about running out of this vintage yarn so I wanted the smaller stitches but I couldn't figure out what I was doing to get them. They seemed random. I googled it and found a Reddit group discussing this very thing and now I have it figured out. In needlepoint speak it's going from Arizona to Maine when you go right and going from Maine to Arizona when you go left. I had to make myself a little sign on an index card to remind myself. 

Block E2 of Dear Jane is in progress but it's not very interesting at the moment. I'm coming down the homestretch with the Patchwork of the Crosses quilt but I ran out of the smaller honeycomb shapes so I'm waiting for a delivery. I really should start putting all these pieces together but truth be told, I'm a little nervous about them working out the way I've planned. I think the math is mathing but you never really know until you get those pieces sewn together.