happy dance and sunday sal

I finally have my first finish for 2015!  La-D-Da's  Harvest House on 32ct jurrasic sands jobelan by crafty kitten, using GAST - apple cider, cherry bark, WDW - bullfrog, and Nina's threads - old gold and onyx.

It was quite an enjoyable stitch, and went relatively quickly. Now to move onto some other wips to finish them up!

However before I do that... here is my progress for my Sunday SAL with Barbi and Linda on Cornwall Cottage:

Not the best picture, but I've almost got the whole bottom part done!  Looking forward to moving upwards come next Sunday!

Till next time... happy stitching!

weekly update

Here we are again... time to show some wips...

I'll start with Sunday's SAL , which considering it was a long weekend, I didn't get much done at all...
but any progress is good progress!

I have also been working on La-D-Da's Harvest House and this is where I stand as of now...

 

 It's getting close to a finish, but with everything going on this week, I don't think it will be now...

And one last wip... I've also been doing some crocheting.  It too is coming a long nicely...

 

sunday sal and other wips

well here we are again!  time for a sunday sal update!

I didn't get as much time to stitch as I had hoped to yesterday, but I still was able to get a few stitches in Cornwall Cottage.

 

 

I am looking forward to seeing how Barbi and Linda did this weekend!

I also managed to put in a few stitches in an older wip last week... I pulled out Autumn Quakers, also by Rosewood Manor, and got a nice chunk in that one done too, however that pesky frog came for a visit and took a bite out of my Autumn Quakers...

I've reached the bottom left corner of the pattern, and that big bottom motif is 2 stitches off... now that doesn't seem like a big deal in the larger scheme of things, however, being off throws the rest of the motifs off in the pattern that are to the right of it... Since it is stitched in Valdini thread (read awesome but expensive thread) I haven't decided what I'm going to do... Right now I'm leaning towards working on the rest of it, going down on the right side and then fudging the stuff in the middle, but we will see... I've put it aside, as the mistake is just glaring at me, and I can't seem to see around it...
So what is a girl to do when the frog attacks... well, it's start another project or two, and that is exactly what I did!

I started a crochet project... it will be a blanket of some sort... just not sure how or how big yet...

I have a little more done since taking the picture...

And I also started another cross stitch project... this one is La-D-Da's Harvest House...

this is what it will look like when done...

and this is a quick progress pic of what I had done up to Saturday night...

I'm stitching it on Crafty Kitten's 32ct Jurassic sands jobelan and using a combination of Nina's, GAST and WDW threads...

That's it for now, till next time happy stitching!

gifts, finishes and wips...

Today was my niece's 10th birthday, so we did some celebrating... picked her up from school, went to the mall where she wanted to go to build-a-bear. She got a puppy from there, and then we came home to balloons, and flowers. We had at her request pizza for dinner, and of course birthday cake and presents.

Here is what I stitched her, as per her request...

She got a lined bag with a skull and crossbones on it, and you can just see the lining peeking out - hot pink spiderweb fabric, which she will also get a pillow case made from it, and she got a little ornament pillow with another skull and crossbones.

It is a freebie, that can be found here.

I stitched it up on 14ct damask aida, the last in my stash. I've always loved the colour of this fabric, and only had a small piece left and have been hanging onto it literally for years for the right project. I love the way it turned out and judging by my niece's reaction, she liked them too.

I also finished up La~D~Da's Flowery Alphabet. From my last post, all I was missing was my initials and the date so here you go...

And last but not least, my minimal progress on Elizabeth... I'm not sure what is going on with this project, but it seems that I'm stitching on it and stitching on it but I'm not going anywhere! Hopefully now that those two birds are out of the way, I'll be able to progress a bit more. For some reason they were just taking me forever to do!

She is still an enjoyable stitch, just a very slow going one!

I'm not sure what to work on this week. I have a little bit of new stash that is just calling my name as well as several other projects that I would just love to start but then my pile of WIPS is just sort of languishing... so I'm sort of stuck as to which to pick up for the next few days...

I guess I just see which one it is that calls the loudest tomorrow night!

slowly stitching away...

Even with the best intentions, after I posted last Sunday, I didn't get a single stitch done on Elizabeth by CHS. So I'll just show you my progress from last night. Not much, and I was getting sick of the grey in the birds so I moved up a little...

Not a lot of progress, but at least I managed some. I was so distracted yesterday that even though I had lots of time to sit and stitch, I just couldn't sit still and concentrate. Last week, I managed to pick up the thread that I ran out of for La D Da's Flowery Alphabet, and I am basically finished it. I have a 99% happy dance to show.... I'm just missing my initials and the date, which I put on tonight, but I'll save the proper happy dance for tomorrow's post.

I stitched it on 32 ct Sand jobelan by Silkweaver... I also switched out one of the recommended DMC colours as the converstion looked a little dark and blah when I pulled the threads... I switched the colour of the letters, as the pattern says to use DMC 844 but I found that too dark of a grey especially since the cover picture showed blueish letters. I really enjoyed stitching this one and like how it turned out. I hope you do too.

Also, I have one more quick happy dance. I actually finished this a while ago - sometime last month, but completely forgot to post it.

My little niece's 10th birthday is coming up and she too asked me to stitch something for her. She originally wanted Sabrina by Mirabilia but then saw a freebie I downloaded onto my computer and wanted me to stitch that for her. I actually found two of these freebies, and here is one... all stitched up.

She has a fascination with skulls and crossbones, so this one will become a lined bag that she can keep her little things in. I couldn't find pink skull lining fabric, so it will be lined with pink spiderweb fabric instead. I have another skull freebie, with a pink heart around it, that I will also stitch up for her as a little ornament.

I'm also a bit frustrated with blogger... on my side bar (to me at least) my 2011 finished all seem to be spaced out funny compared to my 2010 finishes list... Does it look that way to you or is it just on my computer?? I've tried fixing several times, including completely deleting it and redoing the text box, but it still comes out funny for me.

orts and wips...

Its ort report time (love that name for it, thanks Daffycat!) and here is my jar... yes it is pretty full... even I can't believe how many orts are in there, but I have actually been stitching quite a lot so far for this TUSAL.

I thought I would also show my progress on La D Da's Flowery Alphabet... I didn't get any more stitching done on Bent Creek's Cabin in the Sticks, but I will be hopefully working on that one this week. I have to put the Flowery Alphabet aside, as I ran out of thread that I'm using for the letters. I changed them a bit from what the chart called for as the letters were too dark and the flowers a bit on the brown side.

Please excuse the terrible photo, not sure why it came out so dark, and I forgot to fix it before uploading, but you get the general idea of where I left off.

Off to have dinner and then start working on Elizabeth, since its our Sunday SAL with Barbi...