To be perfectly honest, I didn't think there would be much to share at the end of the two month period for moving this project on. I didn't like the 'Cut' piece and had no desire to finish it but I did want to get on to the book part of the project for the sake of the other pieces in the Springboard Project, which I had enjoyed doing. And then over the last month I ended up in a number of meetings, readings and other places where I needed to keep myself focused by bringing along something to stitch on and the project bloomed.
The first breakthrough was when I decided to outline the leaves in the 'Cut' piece and went from being decidedly 'meh' about it to actually liking it.
That was the push I needed to get on and finish the piece including mounting it on the page.
The other side is the 'Twist' piece and looks like this:
Last page was the blue on blue denim 'Mend' piece which I was also unhappy with, but now determined to get stuck into. I decided to do one more style of mending, a woven mend covering a square hole. Blue on blue was not the best idea I've ever had, but I was quite pleased with the darn.
Until I took it out of the hoop and realised that it was sitting crooked on the fabric and far too close to the patch. <sigh> But by this point I had had enough of stitching things that didn't bring me joy and decided that it was being made into a page regardless.
This meant that I had actually finished all the internal pages ahead of the end of June deadline! They will be bound in the following order:
Twist:
Cut and Fray:
Layer and Wrap:
Knot and Mend.
Weave and Scrunch:
Fold:
Since I had some of June left, I also made a start on the covers and contents page. This now leaves me in a bit of a quandary. Do I take a break from this rather love/hate relationship and move onto the stitching I had chosen for Move It On Project 4, or do I delay that and carry on, now I'm on a roll, and work on the covers and binding of through July and August?
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