Arctic Animals Club - The Frosted Pumpkin

 I joined the Arctic Animals Club from The Frosted Pumpkin way late in the game. By the time everything arrived to stitch it, I didn't have the time to really get into it. First it was the holiday season  and then... and the next thing I knew, gardening season was starting and I really didn't have time to dedicate to it, although I wanted to. I did try some stitches, but couldn't see the holes or threads to stitch. I couldn't understand why either, but my eyes just weren't working correctly. Yes - even with reading glasses. The dr. thinks it could have been on of the side effects from the stroke. Wild! Thank heavens things have cleared up now. 

Here's where my animals were this morning:

And here it is after 2+ hours and lots of frogging. How can something so simple give me so many issues? I had to work from the color chart to wrap my head around the symbols - and even then, I still frogged some. Jeeze! 

Until tomorrow - Have a great day stitching!

Arctic Animals Club Start

 I now know for a fact that I am old. I sat down to start the Arctic Animals Club and it took me forever to get my first stitches in. Since I purchased the kit, it came with 28 count linen from Picture This Plus in the gorgeous color Nocture. That color and count is killing my old eyes. There's something about the color plus the linen that makes it near impossible to stitch on at times. I have to dig out my stronger reading glasses I guess as well as my Ott light. I am guessing my days of stitching on darker linens have passed and aida will be stepping up to take its place. Maybe it's the color changes. I just purchased a few pieces of hand-dyed fabrics so I'll see if I have the same problem on different colors. I know I had to put aside stitching for a while after my issue with an ocular occlusion in my dominate eye just barely off center. It left that part of my eye damaged and I had to adjust learning to see with it. It was weird, as no one knows why it happened - no medical reason was found. Anyway, back to stitching...

The design is cute and a quite easy stitch as far as colors and chart go. If it weren't for the difficulty seeing the fabric, I'd have had a lot more done. I wanted to try to get caught up and finish with the SAL - but I'm thinking that may now be too ambitious of a goal with the problems I'm having with the fabric. 

Isn't that fabric gorgeous?!

Arctic Animals Club Kit Arrived!!

I was so excited to receive notice that my Arctic Animals Club kit was waiting for me in my mailbox. I think it's perfect timing being the Solstice and the longest day of the year. The absolute perfect day for putting in my first stitch! 

I'm really late to the game. There's only 3 parts out of 11 left to be released, but that's ok. This is such an adorable chart. At this point, I'm going to try stitching in the order of the releases and not look ahead. I did see the latest chart release, but honestly, I don't remember much of what it looks like. It was more of a glance than anything.