dancing the two step...

As I mentioned in my previous post I was off sick from work with bronchitis, and those three days I mentioned turned into a week and half... today was my first day back since Jan 7th... Thanks to being off, I managed to get lots of stitching time in, between naps and snuggles with the kitties of course... so I managed to finish another project!  Here is my second happy dance of 2014...

This is Winter blackwork from issue 66 of Jill Oxton's Cross Stitch and Beading magazine. She is stitched on 32ct Queen Anne's lace jobelan with dmc 844. I apologize if you have seen her all over facebook, but  I just love her to bits, and am both happy and sad that she is done.  She was on my want to stitch list for such a long time!

I also forgot to show Humbolt Coast last week, so here is my progress on that one...  it's coming along slowly... but we are getting closer and closer to the finish line with it!  Soon Barbi and I will have to pick a new project for our Sunday SAL!

Next up in the qsnaps and rotation for this week is Poppy! 

I also would like to mention that I am still looking for Sofie to email me from my giveaway... as she doesn't have an email attached to her profile!

till next time... happy stitching!

wip update

I've been working on my Winter blackwork this past week and I have managed to get lots done.  All I have left is the filling in, which I have already started...

Not the best picture, but I took it with my phone...

No stitching on Humbolt Coast and it doesn't look like there will be any in the foreseeable future as my Sunday's are jam packed till at least the  middle of November... So if Barbi doesn't mind, I'm going to cheat a little bit and work on it this week... it's a short week, only three stitchy days for me as we are going away for a few days, but hopefully I will be able to get some good progress in, and then I can go back to my rotation next week... we'll see how things pan out...

till next time... happy stitching...

hello september... where did you come from???

 So where did the summer go?? I can't believe it is September already!  It was June not that long ago, and I was looking forward to the summer months... but I blinked and they are gone!   I hope everyone had a great summer even though I know it went by way too quickly...

As promised, I have some new projects lined up... here are two of them, that I have started so far... All of my new projects are patterns that I've had in my stash for a while and have been calling out to me for quite some time now... It was the perfect time to get them out and work on them...

1. Winter blackwork by Jill Oxton (issue 66)

That is what it is supposed to look like and here is my progress so far...

I'm stitching her on 32ct Queen Anne's Lace jobelan using DMC 844.  If I do say so myself, the picture doesn't do her justice... but that is my fault and my lack of photography skills and laziness to actually take it with the camera and not just my phone...

Shameless plug here... if anyone is interested I do have an extra of the magazine that this pattern is in for sale... don't ask how I managed that one, but I do have two magazines...

My next project is a little brighter...

2. Poppy by Mirabila/Nora Corbett

Here is my floss toss

And my progress on her from my first night of stitching...

I'm using 28ct Sudden Storm jazlyn by Silkweaver for her...

Anyways, I have two more starts lined up, but you will have to wait to find out what they are until I actually put some stitches into them...

Till next time... happy stitching!!