6.03 Miss Christmas Eve

Yet another Xmas one, finished and awaiting framing...maybe one day I will actually get them framed and up on the walls for Christmas itself, LOL

This time around I used fabric from Fibrelicious (The awesomeness that is Nguyen), who has only recently started dying fabrics as well has her cottons and silks.
And OMG the fabric she dyed for me - words cannot describe it.

It's called Sunlight Cathedral, and I got it in Belfast opal.  ISH SHO SPARKLIE! *cough*  

With fabric and threads ready, she started being stitched.  The top half was actually really fast to stitch up, it surprised me.  Then I got to the skirt, and I remembered why I have to make myself do the skirt first for these ladies - I get so incredibly BORED.

But I persevered!  I also may or may not have done a smaller project or two in the middle, to help break up the endless green.

And then, just before lunch one day...the stitching was done!

And then her beads!

All in all, I loved her, especially once she was finished.  Doing her again, I would start with the skirt, just so I don't get so irritated like I did this one (And yes, I already have a conversion worked out for her, don't judge >.<)

The one thing I did change on her was the waterlilies.  As per usual for me.  I had some sparkly thread similar to blending filament (and just as irritating to use, I might add) which I used.  I thought it added a special extra, being actually sparkly, whereas the original waterlilies aren't (I called the ribbon her tinsel, so she needed more sparklies!)

Mirabilia's 'Miss Christmas Eve', MD148
Stitched 2 over 2, on opal belfast linen, 32 count, Fibrelicious 'Sunlight Cathedral'

Beads as original.

Caron Waterlilies substituted by other sparkly 'stash-threads'

Stitching time - roughly a month.

6.02 Bella Vita Conversion

While she is a beautifully simple little mermaid, I must admit, Bella Vita's colours sucked ass.  They just did nothing for me, and as such were drastically changed.

She went from this:
                                             

to this:

Yeah.  Just a 'small' change.

Stitched 2 over 2, on Chromatic Alchemy's 'Poseidon', 32 count belfast opal.

Changes as follows - (Original - new)
TAIL
166 - 3809
580 - 3808
732 - 3808
772 - 3811
3819 - 3810

RIBBON
500 - 154
958 - 333
959 - 3746
964 - 156
991 - 550

HAIR
420 - 3823
838 - 3820
839 - 3822
3371 - 3829

Skin, and white stayed the same.
I also did her backstitch in 632, not the original 3799

Beads were : 42031 - 02085 (hair)
                                 - 10079 (tail)

Honestly, if I do her again, I'll switch her colours around - so purple tail, and green ribbon.  But that was something I decided after I was too far in for me to be bother un-picking stitches and redoing it (At that point I had already unpicked around 200 stitches and I wasn't doing it again).  Maybe for next time?
She IS a very simple stitch to do, and definitely on my redo list.

6.01 New Year, new...wait, not quite new start

ANYHOO, my new year, new start actually began mid-December.  These things happen.

Mirabilia's Aphrodite Mermaid (MD144) has been settled in for a while, and I finally found the perfect fabric for her too!
Chromatic Alchemy's "Eliat", which ended up looking like kelp in water, which I thought was the perfect accompaniment for a mermaid.
The one downside was ...the fact it looked like her hair was pretty much an octopus.  I'm sorry, but I wasn't that impressed with her hairdresser.  So that was always intended to be changed.

Everything finished but her hair

All finished, except beads

Everything doneeeeee!

Best part about her?  I actually liked stitching her enough that I'm considering doing an adaption.