Confessions of a Chronic Starter....

After yesterday's start, I have decided to come clean. I am addicted to starting. There. I said it. I have been doing it for years and years and more years.

Maybe, If I show you some of these starts you will guilt me into finishing them. This is probably the oldest start that I have kept. In the early 80s someone showed me a rug made on #40 silk canvas. I had no source for silk canvas at the time. So.....I found a piece of a black silk chiffon/mesh type fabric and went to work....It did work, but the silk was much softer than the canvas. I am not sure why I chose those colors. It will probably never be finished. I just wanted to prove to myself that I could do it.

Later I graduated to real silk canvas, linen in various thread counts and #24 congress cloth. I do finish lots of rugs, but I still can't resist starting new ones. I do my own designs as well as patterns from other people. This one is a Pamela Warner design from one of her books....I actually finished it....Then I got the harebrained idea to do it on #40 for a half inch house(also unfinished).

There is a LOT of critical counting in this one. The center design has lots of stems and flowers that go in all directions at once. I do love this design and probably will finish the smaller one some day....

This one is from a Dover book on Celtic designs. I am doing it on #40 also....another one that will get finished sooner or later......

Some pieces, I have no excuse for not finishing. The three on the top left are other people's designs and are basically finished. All I have to do is press them and assemble them. Loss of interest...

The four way bargello was just to see what it would look like. It is silk thread and I am not really impressed. It is too fluffy for long stitches. Maybe I will like it better when it is done.

The bottom one is a start to an oriental rug that I am doing from a photo....I have an excuse for this one...I can't find the photo. I know it is around her somewhere. All I have to do is find it. Another reason that I am cleaning the workroom...


I could go on all day. Each of the plastic boxes have a rug start and thread in them. The pile in the foreground consists of trial runs, experiments and the large pink Tibetan one that I designed from a book on Tibetan rugs that I have. That one I really want to finish. It is one of my favorite pieces.

As you can see, the critic is in the picture now.....

This is evidently Widget's opinion. I think that he would rather have me working on a cat bed for him. At least he is giving everything a good pressing.

When people ask about all of these starts, I have a really good explanation. I tell them, "I can't die until I finish all of the projects that I have started. This is insurance. I am going to live to at least 481 years."

I think that I will go start something new now....More insurance.

See you tomorrow.