spring is blooming...

Just a quick post (as usual) on some stitching updates...and a little update from our garden... our lily of the valley are blooming and here is my first pick...  I made two smaller bouquets from this bunch pictured, one to sit here by my computer and one to sit by my stitching spot, so that no matter where I am I can see them and enjoy them, and their lovely fragrance! 

Here is my sunflower by AAN... almost done the stitching... 2 1/2 petals to go and then the beads before a happy dance.

Also here is my Humbolt Coast... I managed to get a good bit of stitching in on Sunday... I love watching this one come to life!

another week, another post...

Where does the time go to?? It just seems to be flying over here! 

Here is my latest update of my sunflowers.... I had to frog the one yellow petal as I totally stitched it in the wrong spot... and then I ran out of yellow floss except for one really long strand... so I continued with the green till I had a chance to go to Michael's to pick up some more...

Not the greatest of photos, I did take it with my phone, but it seems to take better pictures outside than inside... so please excuse the quality...

Sunday was also Humbolt Coast stitching time, and I managed to get lots done... another page down (okay another small one, but like last time, a page is a page)...

Here is my progress with this one... I would really like to keep stitching on this, but I'll be a good girl and go back to my sunflowers...

 

 

 

I'm really enjoying watching this come to life... I definitely see another Silver Lining chart in my future... I have a ton in my stash, but this is the first one ever that I have stitched!

 

Till next time... as always,  happy stitching!!!



quick ort report

Just a quick post as it is late... here is my ort jar for this month... I did some stitching done, mostly on my AAN Girasole - as you can see from all the yellow and green... and a little bit from Sunday's Humbolt Coast stitching...

There was some frogging involved as well... but all is well again.

Please excuse the photo quality, I took with my phone and sort of forgot to clean the lens...

till next time... happy stitching

catching up...

I'm not very creative with my post titles, but each time I come to post, my brain goes totally blank as to what to use as a title...

Oh well... you're here to see the stitching not the titles...

I finally managed to sit down and work on Humbolt Coast this Sunday... it was great to get back to it.  I managed to finish off another page... a small one... but a page nonetheless... I can now say I have 4 pages done! LOL!!!

Here is my progress... I managed to finally get some beach/sand going so the wave has something to crash onto...

I also managed to make some more progress on Girasole... I think I'll see how far I get on it this week, and then pick something else next week... I really would like to finally finish both Fairy Moon and the Last Supper but they really are not calling my name at the moment...

I digress... here is my progress of my sunflower...

That's it for now...

Till next time... happy stitching!

a new month

Wow, I can't believe it's May already! Where did April go???

I haven't been stitching very much, and definitely no stitching on the weekends, we have been busy... so no Humbolt Coast progress at all... or progress on any of my other wips..

I sort of lost my stitching mojo after my holidays and being sick - I managed to catch a cold on our last day of holidays... so to rectify things I decided to start a new project... I picked AAN Girasole. A lovely sunflower that just feels so springy... 

Here is my progress from the last few weeks...

I'm stitching it on 32ct Kauri lugana by Kiwi Illusions (click here to see the fabric) using dmc 927 and 730. I changed the green as I didn't like the green called for. I prefer the darker more olive shades of green...

That's it for now... Till next time happy stitching

 

 

ort report

Not the greatest picture, but here is my poor little ort jar, all empty... no stitching whatsoever this month, as we were away on holiday!

We had a wonderful time, if you are friends with me on facebook, you got a taste of some of the things we saw and did, and especially what we ate! OMG the food was sooo good!

I will post a couple of pictures here too, but for now this is just a drive by posting to make sure I got my ort report up on time.

Till next time... happy stitching!

early ort report

Just a quick post as I will be taking a blogging break for a bit, and I won't be around on Monday to post my ort report for the TUSAL...

Here is my jar for the last month... lots of orts in there! the bottom layer is from my pinkeeps, all different colours and then the rest is from Humbolt Coast and Fairy Moon, lots and lots of white, greys and greens in there!

Here is also my last post of a wip in a while too... I've been working on Fairy Moon, and I would love to get the bottom done already so I can finally move on the the fun stuff of her hair, and face!  But it was not meant to be, at least not yet!  Soon though, soon!

Anyways, till next time... happy stitching!!

the tide rolls in...

Sorry for the quality of the pictures, but I took them quickly with my phone...

Anyways... I'm pretty much done another page on Humbolt Coast... I'm also almost at the bottom of the chart... I have about 9 rows left from the bottom right corner where my stitching stopped. Once that part is done I can move over to the left...

I also managed to finish the main stitching on Fairy Moon's dress, I'm just working on filling in the  little designs on it before moving on to another part...

Not much else to say, but I am happy with my progress on both of them.

Till next time happy stitching!!!

pinkeeps!

Here they are!  I've finally made the rest into pinkeeps (with the help of hubby of course) These are all gifts from my pay it forward facebook offer from way back when... I'm the queen of procrastination so I obviously am very late with getting these to their recipients... who probably don't even remember they signed up! But that's okay, hopefully they will think it is a nice surprise when they recieve them.

I do have two more to do, one more of the the "use it up" and the kitty blackwork heart but those are for us - hubby and I, so we will finish those off later...

I've been slowly working on Fairy Moon still this week, and will more than likely continue next week as well. Then dear readers I will be taking a blogging break until after easter...but no need to worry all is well, and I will still post a couple of times before then!

Till next time... happy stitching!!

weekly check in...

Seems that all I'm doing is posting my weekly stitching progress... not much else is going on so other that I don't have much to share...

I did manage to get a good chunk of stitching in on Fairy Moon this past week, and made a nice dent in Humbolt Coast as well.

I'll let the pictures do the speaking... you can pretty much see the before pictures in my last post...

Till next time happy stitching!