Finally a picture of what Sarah and I worked on Saturday.  We are both stitching Celtic Banner, using a green color scheme but she’s using pinks for contrast and I’m using just purples, not being a pink fan myself.

Celtic Banner Recap

We started stitching Celtic Banner in August of 2006 on a long weekend in Maine.  I continued to work on it about once a week through 2006, finishing up the alphabet in December.

In August 2007 we went back to Maine for a long craft weekend where we continued working on Celtic Banner, I finished up the next 2 motifs after the alphabet there…

Motif 1 after alphabet

Second motif (love this one!)

In 2008 I did not go up to maine due to the wedding (and I didn’t really stitch due to wedding preparations) so Celtic Banner sat on the side lines waiting for my life to slow down a bit again.

In 2009 it was back to Maine for our long weekend of stitching!  And stitch we did!  Lots of progress was made.

Lots of bands finished up

Final progress in June 2009

And that brings us to the present unfortunately.  I did actually stitch more than what is shown above, that big knot was almost finished when I picked up the Banner on Saturday.

So after our Saturday stitch I finished up that big knot in the center and Sunday and Monday night I worked on the border and then started just a bit of the compass below it.

Current progress!

Once that compass I’m working on is done I’ll be done with page 3 and started on page 4 (4 page pattern!).  The end really is in sight.  I’d like to keep working on this piece for a while, at least till I get ambivalent to it, right now it’s the only thing I ‘want’ to stitch so i’m sticking to it!