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Nadareh, Progress 11

4/16/2026

After many starts and stops, I have finished stitching the background diagonals for the next border. It will be fun seeing the colors as I fill it in. However, I have turned my attention to the Cats border again and am now busy filling in the ones I couldn`t before due to lack of thread. I purchased several skeins of the background so that I will have it for another project and will take the next several days to complete the cat border.

My folding frame is holding up fairly well but I don`t think it will be suitable for another use after this rug is finished. It has been a godsend for me when traveling though and protects my rug very well. I might try to think of another way to make one another time when I have a large project to complete. Since it is made from foam core, it isn`t very sturdy, but good enough for now.

I have also been working on some little pillows at different stages in order to do a demonstration for the OMEGA show coming up on May 3rd and I think I am ready for it now. As my little pillow stages are now done, I can re-focus on the Nadareh. I would like to get more done before the show so that I can bring it with me to show my progress and the silk gauze my rugs are stitched on..

Nadareh, Progress 10

3/31/2026

Things are moving along nicely now and I found stitching the small, dotted border went fairly quickly.

The same cannot be said for the next section I am working. I have more time to stitch right now and for some reason I keep making silly mistakes! I think I have spent as much time unpicking my mistakes as stitching. Very frustrating!!

The zig-zag you are seeing is one half of the whole and I have decided to lay down the first half all the way around to make sure everything is stitched properly. Then I will stitch the other half using the first half to guide me. With the amount of silly mistakes I am making on this section of the rug, I am definitely glad I didn't choose to stitch both halves at the same time. Much less to pick out this way. When I make mistakes like this, I

find it is a very good idea to put the project down for a bit, get up and do something different for a while before I return to it. So often, when I do this I can approach it again with a positive attitude and stitch mistake free once again.

Nadareh, Progress 9

3/22/2026

Round and round we go! I am working my way around the animal border of the rug and, as of yesterday evening, have made it this far.

Unfortunately for me, I have run out of the background color of the animal motif, so will have to pause working this border until I can get some more floss. I am not close to a store that sells floss so I tend to wait until I have a few things I need before making the trek. Therefore, I have decided to begin the next border. That border will keep me busy for a while.

With each border around the rug, I am slowly working my way toward the middle. The next border is a simple one that I can do without looking too closely at the pattern - and, yes, I did double check it to make sure there are no anomalies in the border designed to make it fit the rug properly!

It will be interesting to see how long it will take me to do this next border since each one is less stitches across than the last one.

A Fun Little Side Project, 5

3/20/2026

I am pleased to announce that the diamond art version of my Jocelyn Rug pattern is now completed!
It has been such a fun project to work on that I would love to do another someday. The company that created my diamond art kit for me was True North Diamond Art and they were wonderful to work with. They created a kit with a blank square grid on it and sent all of the diamond drills I needed for the project based on the number of stitches I had listed on my pattern. I read the pattern the same as I would for doing

petit point and was able to follow it very easily to transfer the correct color to the correct square to complete the design. This has been the easiest diamond art kit I have ever done!

A Fun Little Side Project, 4

3/14/2026

I have been making great progress on my custom Diamond Art project, so I thought I would post a slideshow of my work to date.

At this rate, I know I will be finished very soon. The next update of this will show the last section at the top completed.

Such a fun project to see my own idea immortalized in diamond art!

Nadareh, Progress 8

3/12/2026

It has taken me a while, but the right side is now finished and I am working my way across the top. This side seemed to take me a long time filling in the empty spaces, but now I am on a roll and I expect it to go faster once again.

I am still also working on my diamond art to give my eyes a bit of a rest when they get tired of looking at these tiny stitches.

A Fun Little Side Project, 3

3/3/2026

I thought I would post another little update of my diamond art progress since I do not have much to show on my Nadareh stitching.

I was able to complete an entire row (defined by the strips of paper covering the glue, measuring about 4" high) in 3 days! I am now very close to the halfway mark and the next row will take me well past halfway. It is so fun seeing this project take shape so quickly.

There are now 3 more "rows" to complete and my project will be done. I do not fool myself into thinking that is only 9 days of work because on those 3 days I did nothing else but diamond art and, of course, I rarely get entire days to devote to a project. However, the hope is solidifying into a certainty that I can complete this project and frame it in the not too distant future!

Nadareh, Progress 7

2/24/2026

Late last evening I was finally able to finish re-stitching the side motif outlines and push through to the corner. Everything now lines up perfectly for this border and I am back on track.

Hopefully, I have finally learned to always check my pattern more carefully when stitching my borders and will refrain from doing this type of mistake again. I always try to learn something from each project I work on but know that invariably I will come up with some other mistake in the future. So far, I have always been able to fix my mistakes given the time and stubbornness to do so!

Nadareh, Progress 6

2/21/2026

After completing the cat motifs across the bottom, I decided it would go quicker for me to stitch the surrounding of each motif all the way up the side to the top before adding the color. That way I would know everything fit properly.

Unfortunately for me, I did not follow my own rule and CHECK THE PATTERN after I had memorized the stitching sequence! I am so annoyed with myself. After running into this same issue with another rug of mine, you would think I would learn, but apparently not.

Borders are areas where miniature rugs often have to stretch the pattern a bit to make the corners all match up properly. Sometimes it is across the horizontal sides and sometimes the vertical sides. There was no change in the spacing of the motifs all across the bottom, so I got complacent and forgot to check spacing on the sides when stitching the right side.

I noticed the issue late last evening when I got to the last section and saw that it was going to end 4 rows short of the corner. I had been very meticulous counting for each segment so it was with a sinking feeling that I checked my chart. Sure enough, it was a border that I had stretched out to incorporate those 4 rows. There are 22 motifs traveling up the side and the first sections that had an extra line between them was between number 9 and 10, meaning I now have to unpick (frog) 11 sections!!

There goes 4 days of progress. I can only be very thankful that I did not stitch the entire motif of each section while I went. A hard lesson to learn - AGAIN. Today, I begin the tedious process of frogging out the 11 motifs. I am not sure how long it will take, but hopefully it won't be too long.

A Fun Little Side Project 2

2/15/2026

Today, I thought I would give you an update on my diamond art version of my Jocelyn rug.

Things are moving along quite well and it makes a very welcome break from my Nadareh stitching. It is going so well in fact, that I am now hoping to finish it before April and frame it. Fingers crossed!

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