ON THIS EDITION OF WHAT'S IN THE BASKET WEDNESDAY

WARNING: This is a picture-heavy post with lots of craptastic photographs taken by someone who is too lazy to read the instruction manual that came with her spankypants digital camera and who couldn't take a nice clear color-true picture if her life depended on it.

I spent some time up in the studio yesterday afternoon futzing around in Ye Olde Stash, and I came up with a few projects to put into the downstairs stitching basket. (This is a new system for me. I have designated a "downstairs" basket as the one that I need to work out of, as opposed to those days when I want to go upstairs and lose ten hours of my life to needlessly pawing through stash to find something that will eventually ring my bell.) (I did manage to completely purge the studio of its contents that no longer interests me, and we now have an "Archived" section of Chez Spinster that houses all of the crap that I don't want to be bothered with at the moment, but just can't bring myself to throw away.)

(My goodness! Could these sentences BE any longer? Perhaps decaf might be in order...)

Here are the results of the First Official Organizing Session Of 2011:

1) Plum Street Samplers: Dust of Snow
This was Christmas-gifted to me by Aunt Chrissy and I luerve it with all of my pitiful little heart.



2) Shepherd's Bush: Come Tarry
I've lusted after this one for quite some time and decided that this was the year to do it!

3) Bent Creek: Live, Laugh, Love - The Big Zipper

What can I say? I'm ashamed that this one has been languishing in the WIP pile.

4) The Prairie Schooler: ABC's

OK, so I jumped onto the bandwagon with everybody stitching this on one biga** piece of linen.

5) Maggie: Geometric

Considering that this has been in the works since 2004, methinks it's time to finish it.

6) Orna Willis: Cirque de Fleur

I missed graduation from this cyberclass. Time to get back to it!

7) Maggie: Springtide

What is it with me and the Maggie canvases?

8) Cooper Oaks: Floral

I've agonized over this one long enough. Stitch it, already!

Number 9) is the Laura J. Perin: Color Study: One Long Panel piece that's next to the Happy Chair (I won't torture you with yet another crappy picture). Hey! Did you notice that FIVE of these are WIP'S!? That would mean that I'm in some kind of zen-like place that is telling me to finish what I've started, with just a smidgen of new stuff thrown in for good measure and to keep me motivated. Who KNEW that this would be the year of finally getting my proverbial act together?!

Uh-oh! I've just realized that I only need two more projects to hit the magic number 11 for the year 2011. Do you think I'll be smart enough to go upstairs and pull two small ornaments to add to the pile so that I can achieve 11ness perfectitude in all its glory, or will I be an eeeejit and pull two more big projects that I have no hope of completing by the end of the year?

Stay tuned.....