Project nicknames
Anne Tuchscherer
PFH of course. I have been stitching Just Nan's September Song. It is
the first band sampler I have ever done and really enjoy stitching it,
but every time I pick it up I swear I find something else that needs to
be frogged. The first band are four bunches of grapes and a vine
connecting them. Really pretty using three different shades of purple
for the grapes. I frogged them some much I began to despair about ever
getting off the first band. I finally got past them and have done seven
more bands. Each seeming to require a certain amount of frogging.
There is nothing the matter with the pattern. It is nice and clear with
excellent graphics for the specialty stitches. It just seems to be my
own lack of attention when stitching. I have now named this project
"The Grapes of Wrath".
Any other nicknames out there? I know of one RCTNer and fellow Tangler
that has "The Great Blue Blob".
Anne (in Ellicott City, MD)
Sylvia Blanchard
Never Ending Project". Right now it's The Hummingbird who never flies. I pick
large projects and usually by the time I'm on the last legs, I'm ready to give
it to the nearest garbage can. I do break up my work with smaller things, but
especially when it's a gift and it nearly always is, I'm anxious for the person
to get it to see if they like it.
But I do like your Grapes of Wrath. It could also be Sour Grapes. Especially if
you give up on it. Then you can say, "I didn't like the way it looked anyway."
Sylvia Blanchard Triangle North Carolina
Mom to Brandon (firefighter) & Matt (plumber)
Grandma to Madison Nicole (born 4-26-02)
Cheryl Isaak
f0123dbff3b1d313...@news.teranews.com, "Anne Tuchscherer"
<anntuch...@comcast.net> wrote:
Hi!
I have been calling one project 'that *&*&^*()#$&^ tractor'.
I am making real progress on it these days, but I definitely need to be in
the mood to work on it.
The newest has no name yet!
Cheryl
Seanette Blaylock
interesting things to say about Project nicknames:
"Magic in Motion" [the official name] is generally referred to as
"Merlin" over here. :-)
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Seanette Blaylock
WIPs: knitted hat/scarf set
knitted sampler afghan
crocheted sampler afghan
"Pure Elegance" needlepoint stocking [Dimensions Gold]
"Shimmer Snowflakes" felt applique stocking [Bucilla]
"Magic in Motion" cross-stitch [aka Merlin, Laine Gordon/Dimensions]
Mira
been stitching 3 times and yet there's always a mistake. Start and frog 3
times and there's already shape either the basket or a girl but have to frog
them. There's nothing wrong with the pattern, it is me who keeps making
mistake in counting. I am dissapointed that I tossed it away for now but
believe me I would want to throw it in a shredder if the shredder can accept
it. First time happened like that. I make mistakes from time to time but
nothing like this. If I didnt make a mistake, it should be finished by now.
I cant give it a good name, just call it annoying project.
Mira
CowieLuv
Occasionally will pick up the Tye Dyed Snowman I'm stitching for dd. Generally
ends with a loud "that damned snowman" before it's shoved back in the bag. :)
cowie
Cozit/Liz
becoming the "Blue Mutant Mickey Mouse"... but I'm hoping that by the
time the torso's on it as well, I *might* be up to actually calling it
Cinderella more often than the Blue something or other :-)
I've also got the "Neverending Placemats"... first one took about a
year, in part because it wasn't very interesting to work on so was
secondary, in part because when I lost my mind for a few months after
becoming pregnant with DS it took me 4-5 months to realize that just
because I couldn't find enough brain power to figure out my TW, it
didn't mean I wouldn't be capable of a simple, blockier project that
could travel with me... and now it keeps taking a back seat to other
projects. Sigh... in the three years after DS was born (DD is just
under 2 years younger) even though I stitched nearly exclusively on the
Neverending Placemat #2, I still didn't quite get it to the halfway
point... even though they're not very big.
The "Neverending Placemats" are now close to 8 years old... and I've
still only one and almost a half finished. They're not true UFOs
because I've been working on the current one at least 3 times a year
since the month before DS was born (finished more in that month than
since then I think). *g* They haven't been out since last summer,
however... but they *are* going on my roadtrip to Chicago for Costume
Con... so if you're there you *might* see me with them... if I bring
something more interesting, it'll be staying in my room (well, other
than my blackwork handkerchief which might travel with me, depending on
the lighting at the Doubletree...).
And yes, they're the only two which have developed nicknames... out of
those I've finished and the many I have started... WIPs... Though I
*do* have one canvaswork project that it trying very hard to develop a
name for itself... out of frustration with the awful chart....
-Liz
Dannielle Beitzell
rabbits hiding under some pine trees in a snowstorm. I have barely started,
but as I am a counted thread person and this isn't a counted thread
piece...they are officially "those flipping rabbits" until I have completed
them (which might be by 2010)!
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Dannielle
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Cozit/Liz
round robin when the first stitcher (and owner) got tired of stitching
cute penguins. I believe the nick name was the "Penguinies"
(Pen-gwee'-nees)
-Liz (who had nothing to do with that nickname, but liked it)
Isabel J Yonge
Right now I've got the "%^&*() tractor from hell". I hate it. I work
on it for an hour and I'm done looking at it for months. I'm going to
get it done in time to frame for my father-in-law to be for Christmas,
but I have a feeling it may try very hard to become the "project that
the cats can have to rip up". Otherwise, I don't tend to name
projects.
Isabel
WIPS:
1938 John Deere Model A (The Cross Stitcher April 2002)
Hairstylist (A Job Well Done by Stoney Creek)
Favorite Quilt Squares #1 (Canterbury Designs)
Sampler45
I did a project for my husband, an Eva Rosenstan picture of some guns, antlers,
a hunting rack and horn and some dead birds. It took me 5 years to stitch and
I called it my dead duck picture. The name has stuck, even though that was 10
years ago.
Pat in NJ
FINISHED - Moss Creek's "The Embroideress"
WIPs
Stoney Creek Afghan - "Nature's Homes"
Just Nan's "Silkwood Manor"
Mellissa Allison
Num-nums". Anyone who's seen Peter Sellers in "The Party" would understand
the name...I also stitched a still life that I called the "F****** Delft
Blue Thing". I have named Celtic Spring "Lady Elspeth" (my SCA name)
Mellissa
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"Anne Tuchscherer" <anntuch...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Has anyone else ever given a stitching project a nickname?
<snipped for brevity>
Stitchy Kitty
the real name). I ended up calling it "Satan's spawn ". It wasn't the little
girl and boy that were so bad, but the &(#)@! floral arch over them. Before
finishing it I was ready to throw it in the front yard and stomp on it
And then there "that &@*#( angel" (World Peace Angel). I'm sure there were a
few others, but that's all the come to mind at the moment :)
Nick-naming them does let you keep your sense of humor.
Blessings!
Lynn K.
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WIP:
"Angel of the New Dawn" Mirabilia
"Checkerboard" Drawn Thread
"Desderata" Indigo Rose
"Prairie Sampler" Drawn Thread
PaulaB
This whole thread is cracking me up! I'm glad I'm not the only
frustrated person today, although mine is with my DS (and D doesn't
stand for Dear right now!). I never even thought of the shredder...
My projects usually get more generic names - The Big Thing, The Pink
Thing (usually said in a derogatory tone because I really don't care
for pink that much), the EGA thing (my current large WIP), etc. I
guess I just don't have the imagination of some of you! Paula B.
Karen C - California
(PaulaB) writes:
> I guess I just don't have the imagination of some of you!
Or maybe you don't have the vocabulary we have, in terms of #$%$^!! and %^(^&%!
VBEG
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WIP: Angel of Autumn, Calif Sampler, Holiday Snowglobe, Guide the Hands (2d
one)
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FireCat
That name has morphed into the 'Horses from Hell'....or on a really bad day,
'Those Bloody Horses'...
Sharon in Ohio
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Brenda Lewis
I've seen the picture and thought, "Interesting...but NO WAY!" Once
upon a time I know someone had a creative name for Smoky Mountain Cats
but I don't recollectionate what it was. Someone on here by chance?
FireCat wrote:
> At the moment, I'm working on "Four Horses of the Apoycalyse" (yes, still).
> That name has morphed into the 'Horses from Hell'....or on a really bad day,
> 'Those Bloody Horses'...
>
> Sharon in Ohio
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WIP: Dimensions "Blessed Nativity Sampler" ccs (only bs left!)
Bucilla "Holiday At Home Stocking ccs
J & P Coats "Dancing Snoopy" latchhook
Have you heard "Cyclorama" by Styx...if you carrot all!
Marie C
LOL! This is a fun thread to read! I guess I'm not alone. I
have the Drab Brown Antique Airplane (accompanied by my sticking my
tongue out when I see it!). I love colors and this project has 27
shades of brown, tan and taupe. I bought it to make for my dad, and
it sure will be an antique by the time I finish it! LOL!
Marie C.
Poetta
>
>I have been calling one project 'that *&*&^*()#$&^ tractor'.
>
>I am making real progress on it these days, but I definitely need to be in
>the mood to work on it.
>
>The newest has no name yet!
>
>Cheryl
Huh oh Cheryl ... I hope it's not the "nauseating nook"!!!
Jennifer / Poetta
Poetta
ANY of the names I call that train, except the Hell Express!!
Jennifer / Poetta
Linda Moody
I stitched a huge, boring picture of a cecropia moth several years ago for a
boyfriend, at his request, and everyone who saw it in progress said "what an
ugly thing to work on", so of course it became the "ugly bug" - the only piece
I have never missed once it left the house!
Linda inWappingers Falls
PaulaB
> In article <ab59d345.03031...@posting.google.com>, bs...@midamer.net
> (PaulaB) writes:
>
> > I guess I just don't have the imagination of some of you!
>
> Or maybe you don't have the vocabulary we have, in terms of #$%$^!! and %^(^&%!
> VBEG
It's possible that my vocabulary is a little limited...should I try to
work on that?! My current WIP is a thing I'm designing myself for my
EGA Master Craftsman - Assisi work tulips in green...hmmm, moldy
tulips?! Sick tulips? I'll have to think on this. Seems like one of
those names should just *happen*, though, and it hasn't happened yet.
Of course, I'm barely started!
Lynn's post is the funniest so far - those sweet little children
called Satan's spawn??!!!!! Good thing that particular designer isn't
here to read THAT!!!! LOLOL! Paula B.
Cheryl Isaak
"Poetta" <poe...@mindspring.com> wrote:
No - That is in line after "Paperdoll Teddy" which I am doing for DD. So far
the only curse for it is that I messed up the gridding!
Cheryl
EJ
was sent to the cited author.]
In article <ab59d345.03031...@posting.google.com>,
bs...@midamer.net says...
> kmc...@aol.com.LuvXS (Karen C - California) wrote in message news:<20030317222929...@mb-ml.aol.com>...
> > In article <ab59d345.03031...@posting.google.com>, bs...@midamer.net
> > (PaulaB) writes:
> >
> > > I guess I just don't have the imagination of some of you!
> >
> > Or maybe you don't have the vocabulary we have, in terms of #$%$^!! and %^(^&%!
> > VBEG
My big projects generally all acquire the same epithet at some point
(generally about 1/3 to 1/2 way through--sooner if I've done a lot of
frogging)--to whit "What the hell was I THINKING????" which then mophs
into "the endless <insert subject here>". And some of them are. I have
one I've been trying to get done for almost three years <G>
EJ
Cheryl Isaak
ab59d345.03031...@posting.google.com, "PaulaB" <bs...@midamer.net>
wrote:
> kmc...@aol.com.LuvXS (Karen C - California) wrote in message
> news:<20030317222929...@mb-ml.aol.com>...
>> In article <ab59d345.03031...@posting.google.com>,
>> bs...@midamer.net
>> (PaulaB) writes:
>>
>>> I guess I just don't have the imagination of some of you!
>>
>> Or maybe you don't have the vocabulary we have, in terms of #$%$^!! and
>> %^(^&%!
>> VBEG
>
> It's possible that my vocabulary is a little limited...should I try to
> work on that?! My current WIP is a thing I'm designing myself for my
> EGA Master Craftsman - Assisi work tulips in green...hmmm, moldy
> tulips?! Sick tulips? I'll have to think on this. Seems like one of
> those names should just *happen*, though, and it hasn't happened yet.
> Of course, I'm barely started!
Rotten tulips!
Cheryl
Tia Mary-remove nekoluvr to reply
a P.O.S. -- LOL! But does no one remember Trish's ***favourite*** project???
For those who don't know, she has been working on a decent sized St. Francis of
Assisi. The xs parts weren't a problem but the verse -- all done in back
stitch -- was giving her fits. She finally started calling the piece St.
Frantic -- that's how the piece made her feel every time she thought about it
-- and eventually tossed foor old St. Frank into the back of a closet somewhere
:-)))). CiaoMeow >^;;^<
.
PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^<
Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their
WHISKERS!!
Nothing is complete without a few cat hairs!
Bmciowa
Mtn. Christmas and calling it Rocky Mountain Horror.
Sara
WIPS: Prairie Garden (Drawn Thread)
Michael F. Parenteau
did the Camel panel from MarBek's Nativity, I referred to it (and still do)
as the "Kreinik Camel". This was not necessarily a derogatory term, it just
referred to the fact that there were more types and sizes of Kreinik fibers
in that panel than the entire rest of the project.
Michael F. Parenteau
Caryn
MLI's Fairy Grandmother will forever be referred to in my house as 'the old
hag'
My own Dragon of the Clouds, was thought of for a while as 'all that d***
white' but is now referred to as Doc (get it? Dragon Of the Clouds=DOC?).
This of course, means that upcoming Dragon of the Stars will be Dos. I think i
need one that will spell Dog! lol
TW's Castle was 'himself'.
That's all I can recall right now.
i apologize for the caps or lack thereof, shift key on left side of keyboard on
the laptop is dead.
Caryn
Blue Wizard Designs
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Updated: 10/8/02
View WIPs at: http://community.webshots.com/user/carynlws (Caryn's UFO's)
Sylvia Blanchard
>i
>need one that will spell Dog! lol
Is there a Dragon of the Galaxy?
Sylvia Blanchard Triangle North Carolina
Mom to Brandon (firefighter) & Matt (plumber)
Grandma to Madison Nicole (born 4-26-02)
Julie
room.
I had a large and I mean LARGE crewel project that I did for my
brother, it was an endangered species thing with lots of beautiful
critters on it... I ended up calling it "Andrew's Nightmare" It took
me 5 years to finish, because I'd get disgusted and throw it in the
work basket for a while. (but what the heck, it took a first place at
Woodlawn that year!) I can't believe I gave it away. :-(
Right now I'm working on Loara's Journey, and although I don't have a
nickname for the piece, I've decided Loara was a dyslexic crazy wench!
;-) The original piece is entirely reversible, which I tried, but that
lasted about 2 bands of 25!
Julie
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Caryn
>think
>>i
>>need one that will spell Dog! lol
>
>Is there a Dragon of the Galaxy?
>
>
>
hmmmmmmm.........
will need to ponder that! lol
caryn
Poetta
see what I can do to help!!!! (On "The Nook" that is!! LOL!)
Jennifer / Poetta
lisa
Lisa
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Kim McAnnally
imagination? I refer to them by the name of the chart. Still working on
Wildlife Refuge by Stoney Creek.
Kim
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JAKL
>think
>>i
>>need one that will spell Dog! lol
>
>Is there a Dragon of the Galaxy?
if DOS is the one I'm thinking of, Caryn, I think I like DOG better!
Jenn L.
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Current projects:
Lady of the Flag (Mirabilia)
Kokopelli Sampler (PItter Patterns)
Sidney Snowman (Faithwurks - January Seaonal Spoolie)
JAKL
It's not really a nickname, but it is an extremely appropriate one!
I'm sure many of you will recall my insane attempt at creating my own pattern
from the cover art of a novel - and the sheer torture of stitching said
creation on 28 count black, one over one. The good news with this project is
there's only two colors. Grey and Red. And they're in very seaparate blocks,
so I don't have to change mid-row (except for in a small area which is already
done).
The subject? Stephen King's Misery. And yes, that project is MISERY on the
eyes!
I'm currently aiming to finish this beastie by September of this year so I have
time to come up with some kind of mounting (whether it be a frame or a bellpul
or whatever) and get it shipped off to one of the organizers of the SK email
club's annual conference for our Halloween bash at the Stanley Hotel
(inspiration for The Shining). I'd much rather take it there in person, but I
just can't afford the weekend trip.
Caryn
>
Yeah....nothing written in stone yet! Heck, Orianna didn't become Orianna
until I was typing chart cover! lol
Caryn
P.S. DOS (or DOG) is coming along! I have one wing fully charted, and the
background is done and looks great on my computer screen at least!
Susan Hartman/Dirty Linen
I'm with you. I usually just use a variation of project name ("tempest"
for Tempest in a Teacup) or else "the whatchamacallit" or "thingamabob"
when the proper word isn't there!
Sue
Kim McAnnally wrote:
>
> I haven't had any nicknames for my projects at all. Guess I lack
> imagination? I refer to them by the name of the chart. Still working on
> Wildlife Refuge by Stoney Creek.
> Kim
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Lynn Hansen
cowi...@aol.com (CowieLuv) wrote:
> Any other nicknames out there?
>
> Occasionally will pick up the Tye Dyed Snowman I'm stitching for dd.
Ohhh, I was thinking of doing a tye dyed snowman for my mother. Are
you working from an actual chart or are you making it up with fancy
threads and a standard white snowman chart?
Lynn
CowieLuv
you working from an actual chart
This one is an actual charted design. Stitchwork, maybe?? (see, I hate the
thing so much can't remember the name!) Glad it's not in fun fibers--driving
my crazy enough as it is!
cowie
HeyPaula21
mentioned LOL).
Right now Angel of Autumn is a rather long-term WIP, and she's become the Fall
Floozy. Caryn's Doc isn't a WIP yet, but he's close - he's all kitted up. At
the rate I'm going, tho, with no stitching time, DOS (or Dog) might be done
before then!
Paula
Kim McAnnally
say funny names for my projects like that! <G>
Kim
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Elizabeth Fusina
One of the Mirabilias, Christmas Elegance I think, a seated woman in a
green satin dress anyway, was nicknamed The Bangled Bitch, as she had a
lot of beads and they were a...Anyway. ;-) And I am doing what I have
named the Circuit Board Angel, originally Angel of Love, as her skirt
looks like a circuit board--well, sort of.
And five year old DS told me, "Oh, Mommy, if you give that to me, I will
hang it above my bed and look at it every night before I go to sleep."
Um, sold! Although, most of my stitcheries are claimed by either DD or
DS long before they are anywhere near completion.
Elizabeth
Caryn
>the rate I'm going, tho, with no stitching time, DOS (or Dog) might be done
>before then!
Don't count on it! ROFL!
Had the chart ready to start model stitching as of last Thursday, still didn't
get first stitches into it until about 4 pm yesterday! And with that
background it's g onna take a while! lol
Caryn
Debra
>My big projects generally all acquire the same epithet at some point
>(generally about 1/3 to 1/2 way through--sooner if I've done a lot of
>frogging)--to whit "What the hell was I THINKING????" which then mophs
>into "the endless <insert subject here>". And some of them are. I have
>one I've been trying to get done for almost three years <G>
>
>EJ
Only three years. I wish I could get some of mine done in that short
amount of time. I usually don't make up special names for any
stitching project that isn't five years old. I finished "D*mn Black
Background" (needlepoint: blue flowers on a black background) at the
seven year mark. It looks great, but I'll never pick a project with a
solid color background to needlepoint again. It is so boring to
stitch one color for a long time. I stopped working on it several
times to do other projects, but hated every time I returned to it
because it seemed like I'd never finish the black.
I've got a printed cross stitch dresser scarves and pillow case set.
I've been working on one scarf for nearly a year. My friend keeps
asking "You haven't finished that yet?" but since I only work on it
when the two of us are stitching together, I don't mind at all. It's
the only project that I have in a tote and it's always ready to
travel, but I don't always take it with me when we go somewhere. I
plan to have them all done before I give them a nasty name. If I do
one per year that would make me happy. I just wish I had started on
the pillowcases first because I'd have one done and the second one
almost done. Then again, maybe saving them for last will help because
I will know it won't take long to do them, so I'll have a fast finish
instead of a dragging one.
Debra in VA
JAKL
>didn't
>get first stitches into it until about 4 pm yesterday! And with that
>background it's g onna take a while! lol
WOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!