Orange Rug Yarn Musings

I'm starting to form a rotation. It's not entirely formal, and I'm not sure I want it to be. Sometimes I just pick something up because it will fit in well with what I'm doing right now.

Currently in my semi-rotation:

Sunshine Makes Makes Me Happy the January/February education project for Cyberpointers, designed by Meg & Tory Shaffer. For reasons that will later become clear, I'm also including the dragonfly from this month's WOW meeting with this project.

Oksana's Sampler - an EGA Correspondence Course taught by Judith D Gulick, who also taught the great Winterspring course I took a little over a year ago.
Initial basting done, starting to stitch Folk Art Heart

Exodus Breastplate - basting done, mounted on frame, need to start on jewels. I'm a little behind from the class. I'm missing 2 of the threads needed.

Options ... in Hardanger - started making blocks. Still also looking at threads - I'm doing a set of samples based on the colors of the Finica Mardi Gras Sampler (Finica colors 1062, 1325, 2240, 2699, 3560 & 4350). Today I found a fabulous Caron Watercolors (093 Painted Desert) that contains all 6 colors.

Star of Hearts - just finished gathering materials. This counts as being in the rotations given how much time I spent on this. It took 2 visits to my LNS; time there and at home online trying to find appropriate thread conversions; hours online trying to find the threads - finally ended up with the original threads - no appropriate conversions found, other than where two options given, some no longer made, but still available through some larger online outlets, blah, blah, blah; two different online stores - one of which is Nordic Needle who has practically everything, but still did not have everything I needed for the project.

Need to bring into the rotation:

Midnight Garden (Cyberpointers 2009 SAL #1) - need to paint my canvas and get threads

Casalguidi and Lavender - ready to baste, need some DMC threads for the next step

Currently Secret Cyberpointers 2009 SAL #2 - getting permission from copyright owner, but I'm going to stitch the piece regardless

Diamond Iris - waiting for instructions, bought most materials today

Teapot Cosy - current EGA Correspondence Course but has essentially become a WISP even though I like the project