Thursday, April 23, 2009

Sorry

Sorry I haven't updated lately, but my needle has been flying. I have to restart CtS. I had emailed Michelle at HAED about there being so much black. She agreed it was too dark and reworked the pattern and sent me a new one (now that's customer service). However, since I was already on page 2, I can't just frog it, so I'll need to get a new piece of fabric. Already checked the stash and I don't have anything large enough. So until then, and because I needed some HAED to work on for the SAL, I pulled out FoS. Here is where I started.And here is where I am tonight. I'm almost done with page 10. I've done almost a whole page in a week. Boy howdy, if I could keep that up all the time I would have this done in less than a year, but there are too many other things to stitch on to dedicate myself to this alone. I'll keep going on it for now though. Maybe I can get most of page 11 done before the 1st of May next week. That's when I'll take up AW again. Now, I must get back to stitching. See ya.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Part 4 of AW

Part 4 of AW is now done! It has tons of beads. Now I can work on something else. Hmmm what should I work on? Maybe I'll take the night off and wait to stitch on CtS for the HAED SAL tomorrow.
close up of beads on Autumn Watergarden

Friday, April 10, 2009

Thursday SAL

Results of last night's HAED SAL. When looking at the chart and what I had marked off, I didn't think I had put that much in. However, looking back at the previous post, I did put quite a lot in. I really love this piece. There may be a lot of confetti stitching, but it is worth it when you look at it.

Tomorrow is Stitch and Bitch with March. She invited a couple of people from her office. I hope they come. The more the merrier!

Happy Easter everyone!

Friday, April 3, 2009

CtS HD

I finished page 1 of CtS during the Our Friends' HAED SAL. I was able to put close to another 300 stitches in on page 2. All black! I've used almost a whole skein of black so far. That's a lot of black!
And now, AW part 4. FREAKING BEADS! There are, if I counted right, 160 beads in this one section. I have to do that three more times. It took me hours to do. It's beautiful, but, yowzer!

Have a good weekend stitching!

Friday, March 27, 2009

HAED


I joined the Our Friends' HAED SAL group. We stitch on Thursdays. I actually got some stitching on CtS done. About 400 more stitches and page one will be done. I am stitching 1x1 full cross stitch on 28 ct jobelan. I like the smaller count.
Have a good weekend.

Monday, March 23, 2009

RTFM Baby!


This is mainly an IT saying. For those of you who don't know, it means Read The F****** Manual. This holds true for cross stitch instructions also. I'm blissfully stitching on Peppermint Twist, finished the first section and I went to do the backstitching and I read this "entire sampler is stitched in cross stitch using one strand of floss over two". Well heck. I did two strands of floss over two. I am not taking it out! I am not starting over! I like the way it looks. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

TaDa

Between unclogging the bathroom drain, cleaning litter boxes and starting seeds for spring, I finally finished part 3 of AW. It is really pretty in person. Very sparkly.