Hoop.

I'm shocked. I use hoop with 'Devil Bear' and... I like it. But I can't help being worried about hoop marks... Though it'd be pain to do this without hoop or frame of any kind. I tried and my hands got tired very quickly. Apparently it has to do with weight of that canvas.
I've spend this day stitching and frogging, stitching and frogging... there's one part of that linen which just didn't wanted to be stitched correctly. Now it seems that I won that fight.

DB's WIP pics.

Hunger.

21 hours without eating anything. Why? Because I wasn't hungry. In fact I'm still not hungry, but I had to eat something because my head is hurting. (Something... two rice cakes.) Once again, I should eat more, but if I'm not hungry I just can't remember...

Funny thing is that week before my periods and during them I ate more or less normally. So, apparently it's hormonal, but what has changed?

SEBE.

I got my bookmark today, and it's so great. Thank you Lynne.

Presented here with it's current 'location' (Douglas Adams' "Mostly Harmless").

Decision.

Ok, every pot's lowest row is ten stitches wide so this is how I'll do it: 10+24+24+(1+)1=(60)59.

Nasty part in this is that I've to frog that damn frame completely and re-stitch it, but on the other hand... only one frame to frog though.

Other option is to shrink frame width to 58 stitches, but I'm not sure would it look good with wider topiaries. Better to have some space around them.

About rotation.

I should be stitching, but I'm wondering few things.

I've read about rotation system from few stitchy blogs and it seems to be something I should try also, but I've small problem with it: I don't have enough frames. I'm not in good terms with hoop so that option is not an option in the end (though it'd be solution to my problem). At least not before I figure out how I can get even tension with it, and how I keep it even.
I have only one scroll frame, and I'm planning to buy Q-snaps when I get that '10 euros off' gift certificate from LNS, but before it I'm more or less tied to that one big project which takes my only frame. Fortunately I can stitch neatly even without frames so I can do smaller projects in between, but it's bit cumbersome to keep your work in your hand - as I'm quite worried about crease of my skin. I do wash my hands every time before I start to stitch, but anyway...

And then there's problem with space. So, in the end I can't use more than one scroll frame because it gets way too difficult to store those projects otherwise. Q-snaps would be solution, but what if it's not my thing either?

Why it has to be so difficult to be cross stitcher?