Purple Hearts Continued from 2010

I last talked to you about this project on July 11, 2010.

I picked it back up on June 27 and have been working on it almost every night since. 

It is on 24 count black congress cloth and has been a challenge in places, but I have tons of light working and magnification. I have only ripped out stitches a few times! I am now going back to section 8, which is black on black. UGH!

Here are some photos of my progress.

How it looked when I picked it up on June 27. If you compare it to the July 11, 2010 post, you will see it is exactly the same!

Here I finished the center and cleaned up all the "spaghetti" left over from class.

June 28 working on area 5.

July 8, 2025, Areas 1 - 7 completed. 

The close-up below shows a little bit of the black on black I did back in 2010 (lower left of the center square). It is the next area to complete. UGH. 

After this area, I go back to area 4 & 10 to add beads. 

I am working on reducing my WIIPs and this one was the one I pulled out of my WIP cupboard. I have 31 projects in the cupboard (including Purple Hearts). It does make me wonder when a WIP (Work in Progress) becomes a UFO (UnFinished Object) or visa versa. 

HAPPY STITCHING!!