Mid-month Milestone, and a new SAL!!

Here is how lilies look. I am almost one third done with this page. This time i went with the flow and did confetti stitches as well. Since there are lesser confetti stitches in this page, i decided to not keep them for the very last. What you see is the output of 14 stitchy nights!

I did not stitch on the night of 15th May, no not due to fatigue but because i wanted to work on a new SAL called 'Waiting for Summer'. I absolutely love this SAL - it has taken my breath away!!. It is a French SAL organised by Sophie.

The colors that came to me, were Navy Blue and Dark Gray. I first took a darker shade of grey - Anchor 401 Ash Grey, and then opted for something lighter - Anchor 400 Pewter Gray. Sophie had asked us to take contrasting colors. Now by the very definition probably these colors i have chosen are not VERY contrasting. They seem to be a pair though, as though they belong, and create a subtle togetherness. So i plunged in and here is my first part of this beauty!!

Also some BOINK - this has been treated very roughly by me, as in being totally ignored. I could stitch some wihch is better than none. Here is how - I have been too tired of late, so even i slept during my son's nap time on Sunday. When i woke up (i could easily have gone back to sleep), i realised i had pulled some of my stitching time to sleep, so i shook myself, and took up BOINK, anf finished the green in the middle block (about half of which was already done), and barely started the blue.

Finally Quaker - sorry bad color combination??? i am going to change the tulip color, as it just does not go with the red. I am surprised with myself for having chosen that color. But then isnt that what trial and error is all about!! I have two more parts, and i complete yet another project this year. I am hapy i have joined the Marquoir yahoo group, they have a LOT of projects ongoing, and these projects all WONDERFUL!! I can dare only to take up their smaller projects - they do make my stitching journey enjoyable.

Books, hmmm, i think it took me a month's time almost to read Les Miserables. It is not easygoing reading about war and revolution and poverty and strife... I have now shifted gears, and am reading Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Well, family fiction, any time.

Wishing you all a great week ahead. Hope you like these pics i have put in my blog today. Thanks to all of you visit me and leave me a comment. I enjoy reading them!