I am surprised I haven’t talked about this project since last November! I have been working on it steadily and have made good progress. I usually just work on it in the evenings after dinner. I meant to use it as a project for when I didn’t have a quilt project on which to work. What has really happened is I haven’t been working on La Passicaglia. I really need to work on that project, but for now, I am enjoying the needlepoint.
At this time I need to roll the canvas up so I can access more of the bottom, but what happens is I find small holes – one stitch or so – that I didn’t stitch. It turns out that I have to wait until an area is filled sometimes before I can finish, because I can’t see the color. I have to look carefully at the rows and make sure there are no holes. When there are, I fill them, then try and use that strand of color before moving to the next color and filling in more holes. There really aren’t that many. It is an interesting process, though. Very different from quiltmaking.