3.17 Mid-July Update

Love Thy Thread "Freebie Fairy"
Cousins Three
18 count adia, DMC and Kreinik

Love Thy Thread "Freebie Fairy"
Cousins Three
18 count adia, DMC and Kreinik

Love Thy Thread "Freebie Fairy"
Cousins Three
18 count adia, DMC and Kreinik

Love Thy Thread "Hearts and Butterflies"
WIP
20 count hand-dyed adia, Colour Cascade Fabrics, DMC

Love Thy Thread "Stained Glass SAL"
Page one
WIP
18 Count black adia, DMC

Love Thy Thread "Stained Glass SAL"
Pages one-two
WIP
18 Count black adia, DMC

Love Thy Thread "Stained Glass SAL"
Page one
WIP
28 Count evenweave, DMC

Love Thy Thread "Bio 1" by Angela Porter
Pages one-two
WIP
22 count white adia, DMC

"Dreamcatcher Fractal"
Pages one-ten
WIP
18 count oatmeal adia, DMC

2.22 - Updates and stuff

So, I suppose it's time for an update on my progress...

This is day....something or other...

This is the day after that.

 You can't quite see the difference because I was working on the itsy bitsy stuff... no more than 5 stitches... usually only 2 or 3 of one colour >.<

This is today :D

 This one is starting to expand out to the right:D

This is a little close-up.

A shot of the bitsy arc.

Another close-up.

 You cannot tell, but there is actually about 7 or 8 different whites/creams in that shot there...

And finally....Another close up... I like the feeling of those little stitches out to the side. 

It's starting to look really nice :D And I'm glad to get away from the single stitches so I'm enjoying it a bit more... On a side note, I have gotten Snow and Autumn Dryad printed out... Now it's just deciding if I want to do it on 18 or 25 ct cloth :O Decisions decisions...

Es~~

2.18 - Sad, Depressing Update

So, I've been reluctant to post my update... Everyone can blame Kat... >.> She is a zillion miles ahead of me with half the time spent... GrrRrRrr. Either way... here is my turtle speed progress... With pictures... I don't exactly remember what days...but a guess...

Day 5 (I think)

Day 6

Day 7

Day 8

 A couple of close ups (I tried to not let my threads overlap each other)

Day 9

 I only take solace in the fact that my back, is pretty...and neat...and tidy... yup...

And...That's that :O

2.15 DC:K Update Days 1-4

What with Sarah updating, and making me feel bad, I figured I'd better update too.  Only been doing the Dream Catcher since last post, been trying to finish that one page before I bounce off to another (which is my normal mode of operations - I bounce between projects, so I don't get as bored, and it's nice doing something different), and it's slowly getting there.

Day one

Day two

Day three

Day four














While you may see the hoop for the first day, I then switched out to my snap frame once I had moved out from the corner a bit.  While the snap frame IS very cool, it was not so easy for that far top left corner.  So I worked on the hoop for a night.  From here on out however, it appears the frame is going to be used.

I'm not even going to bother taking a picture of the back, as I know it will put poor tidy Es into a fit.  I worry more about the front, since that's all that gets seen.  Focusing on the win, yup.

To make my life ever so much more fun, Es (Yes, I'm blaming you woman) had me on a stitching site, where I fell in love with yet another pattern.  Well, set of patterns.  I linked them to Kaz, who thought OMG too, and now I'm the recipient of another pattern, which needs done eventually.  I'm not complaining about the fact I have it (It's a NICE pattern), more at the fact my timing for it...I really need to stop looking at new patterns while I'm mid-startup on a new one already.

Whee?

2.12 Dreamcatcher: Kat Edition

Es and I have been looking at this pattern for a while, and it was actually decided on BEFORE Queen of Diamonds.

Well, tonight we actually started it.

ON THE SAME DAY.

Being in skype at the same time, hearing how each other started it up....let us just say we have radically different approaches to it all.

 End of first night, black thread done so far.

 The back of my pattern.  Only one colour, and all connected at the moment, it's actually looking very tidy for me.

And my pattern.  This is an A4 page, and it's only that small section on the fabric :(
















Just as a word of warning, I prefer to post things with multiple pictures, so there will not be a dreamcatcher pictures until I have 4-5 days worth of work.

2.11 - The Start of Something New

So, the same night I've finished something, I've started something else, YAY! Kat and I have both started on Dreamcatcher, granted she got a LOT more done than I did. She was much more decisive about the cutting of fabric and getting everything started, while I was counting this way, and that way, and this way, and that way... repeatedly... She can testify that I counted no less than 40 times before I cut the fabric. I couldn't decide how much room to leave myself on each edge, and my paranoid worries that I miscounted... So I didn't just double check, and triple check, but a bazillia-checked (shush, it's a new word).  When I finally got around cutting and putting it in the frame, I had to decide how long to cut the thread... *sigh* I'm indecisive, I know... Well anyways, in the end, not a lot was done, but here it is...

This is the tiny tiny piece of black on the top left corner of the pattern... (Did I tell anyone about how much I looooooooooove this fabric with the grid already woven in? I LOVE IT!!!!! I will probably never using any other cloth.)

This is the pattern of how much I've done...

This is my back, which is so far neat and tiny... I plan to keep it this way!! (fingers crossed)

This is what it will look like in the end. (Minus the fake border frame)

I wonder who will finish first... Probably Kat because I'm a slow stitcher... I'm much pickier than she is (if you have't already noticed). Also, I'm looking to start Autumn Dryad by Maxine Gadd sometime soon-ish as well.... So, lots to do! Yay!

Also, this is what I woke up to yesterday after my 4 hour nap :D

Breakfast potatoes and eggs... It was omnomnom and the perfect start to my cross stitching for the day!

That is all for now!