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WIP
I haven't posted here in ages... but I've got an update anyway! ( photos below the cut )
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WIP: Durene Jones "Peeking Cats"
I am a little tired of DMC 310 right now. I am having SO much fun with this one.
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Progress!
Made some progress on one of my several WIPs. This is a 2016 stitch-a-long from CloudsFactory, "Fabulous Women in History" and I'm one-third done.
This is my first project on linen and I'm really struggling with it. I bought this as a kit and have some regrets: the fabric is beautiful but the threads are not very high quality.
I'm looking forward to doing more on this one. (Not just because I will do almost anything to avoid the backstitch on my Alaskan Otters WIP...)
This is my first project on linen and I'm really struggling with it. I bought this as a kit and have some regrets: the fabric is beautiful but the threads are not very high quality.
I'm looking forward to doing more on this one. (Not just because I will do almost anything to avoid the backstitch on my Alaskan Otters WIP...)
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WIP, Durene Jones "Cat Cushion"
My current WIP. From the World of Cross Stitching magazine, issue 276, January 2019. Click the thumbnail to embiggen.
I am really enjoying this one, except for the part where the magazine's editors decided the design should be split across THREE(!) pages, including splitting some elaborate backstitch. Technology to the rescue, I have a scanner and I was able to mostly line things up in Paint.net, but I really hate it when they do that.
There will ultimately be 6 kitties. As soon as I saw the "Coming next issue" in December I knew I had to do this one. The cats look exactly like my boy Findo, and I am a sucker for anything with psychedelic colours and/or heavy black outlines for a stained-glass (or wrought-iron) look.
I am really enjoying this one, except for the part where the magazine's editors decided the design should be split across THREE(!) pages, including splitting some elaborate backstitch. Technology to the rescue, I have a scanner and I was able to mostly line things up in Paint.net, but I really hate it when they do that.
There will ultimately be 6 kitties. As soon as I saw the "Coming next issue" in December I knew I had to do this one. The cats look exactly like my boy Findo, and I am a sucker for anything with psychedelic colours and/or heavy black outlines for a stained-glass (or wrought-iron) look.
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Weekly WIPs
I've made some progress on a couple of personal projects, and a commission this week. Very slow going on all of it, but hopefully things will turn around.
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WIP with a slight design problem
I am working on a silly piece for the upcoming office gift exchange. It's a Maria Diaz design called "Vineyard Holiday" from a recent issue of The World of Cross Stitching. (Sorry I don't know which issue.)
I am leaving out the fields and house in the background. In the resulting space I'll put these words:
To Do Today:
__ Drink
__ Know things
Here's my progress so far:
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I'm not at all happy with the green highlights in the glass. It would look fine with green fields behind it but as things stand it doesn't really make sense. I'm thinking of pulling out the green and replacing it with a very pale sky blue. Colour choices (existing green and proposed blue) are below the cut:
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What do you think?
I am leaving out the fields and house in the background. In the resulting space I'll put these words:
To Do Today:
__ Drink
__ Know things
Here's my progress so far:
( Read more... )
I'm not at all happy with the green highlights in the glass. It would look fine with green fields behind it but as things stand it doesn't really make sense. I'm thinking of pulling out the green and replacing it with a very pale sky blue. Colour choices (existing green and proposed blue) are below the cut:
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What do you think?
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An ongoing project
So, often in Winter I don't do very much, if any, cross-stitch due to the whole lack of light thing. Preferring instead to knit in winter and cross-stitch in Summer. However, this year I have actually been doing a fair amount of stitching, but due to the whole lack of light issue, I've not really been photographing my progress. But this is where I'd got to in late October. (I reckoned in my last post that I would have at least a little fairy to show off by the next week...and I did...I just never posted.)
( and here we are in January )
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Cross-stitch Tuesday
I knew I'd missed a couple of weeks of checking in but I hadn't realised it was nearly a month. Anyway things are starting to take shape! I'm starting to be able to see where other parts of the design will fit in. The places where the leaves will slot in for example. And I finally, finally got to actually put some purple in - when I picked this design all those years ago, I was under the impression there'd be a lot more purple involved than there actually is...
I am actually a little further on with the design than this picture shows, but not by very much. I started in on some pink, but I haven't got very far yet. Hopefully next week's post will have some actually fairy in it!
I am actually a little further on with the design than this picture shows, but not by very much. I started in on some pink, but I haven't got very far yet. Hopefully next week's post will have some actually fairy in it!
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Cross-stitch tuesday
I started on working on tiny Yule-things for ornaments to use as gifts for my assorted cousins. This is the current one!
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Cross-stitch Tuesday
This week was a good week for the project, I managed to get lots done. Helped in no small part by having the day off on Friday and having decided to binge listen to a podcast series while I was at it. Unsurprisingly, around five solid hours of cross-stitching does make an impact on a project.
( progress pic below the cut )
( progress pic below the cut )
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A new big project to be puttering along with
I haven't made a sizeable cross-stitch project in ages, so I was looking for one to do and came across a very old project. Back when I first got into cross-stitch in my early teens I found a pattern for a flowerfairy that I wanted to make. It was a little overambitious for my age and patience level. (Not least because, I didn't realise when I bought it that it was just the pattern so I had to track down all the many individual shades of thread for it.) Anyways, a couple of years ago I got tired of it sitting in a box taunting me whenever I came across it, went through my thread collection and gathered all the threads for it that I had and took advantage of a craft store closing down to get the rest of the shades I needed and bagged them up so they were all together for when I next wanted a big project to work on.
Fast forward to this summer when I was looking for a bit of a challenge, I came across the fairy and decided that its time had come. I've been working away at it steadily for the last month or so but I keep meaning to and then forgetting to take photos of my progress along the way to keep me motivated, but I finally did today so I'm going to try to get back into posting weekly update posts as I've found them really motivating for large projects in the past.
( rather bigger than my usual fair )
Fast forward to this summer when I was looking for a bit of a challenge, I came across the fairy and decided that its time had come. I've been working away at it steadily for the last month or so but I keep meaning to and then forgetting to take photos of my progress along the way to keep me motivated, but I finally did today so I'm going to try to get back into posting weekly update posts as I've found them really motivating for large projects in the past.
( rather bigger than my usual fair )
Some finishes, WIPs, a beginning
I actually just moved houses, away from hot-as-the-sun Texas and into... apparently very rainy Wisconsin. It was a heck of a move, but to stave off tension I was doing a few small projects in between packing.
( Lots of pictures )
( Lots of pictures )
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Cirque de Carreaux
I've been working on this lately--especially since I found that if I bring it to work to play with on my free time, it gets me less hassle than if I read a book! Go figure. My coworkers are strange.
But either way, it's starting to look quite pretty.
( Pictures under the cut )
But either way, it's starting to look quite pretty.
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Teapots and Spice Bouquet
Wow, it's been a while since I posted anything! I've been busy, I guess... anyway.
( Two WIPs below )
( Two WIPs below )
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Cross-stich progress
It's been a while since I posted any finished objects, largely because I've been doing a lot of knitting these past few months and what cross-stitching I've been doing has mostly been wee kits that I keep for travelling and none of them have actually got finished. But I have been working on something a bit bigger lately and I discovered I did have another couple of finished objects that I'd just never posted about.
( progress report! )
( progress report! )
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WIP Teapots, Frog Pile
Sorry to doublepost, but it's been a while and though I've spent a lot of time lately knitting a Doctor Who scarf, so I don't have that much, I'd still like to put it up here anyway.
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( Snip )
Framed project, wips, and general update
Oh, sweet! I'm so happy I found a comm on DW... is this in any way related to the one on LJ? Either way, I guess I'll put my update post here, too.
Basically I didn't post my updates anywhere for a while so I sort of have a bunch of them piled up. Here we go...
( Lots of pictures and some chatter below the cut )
Basically I didn't post my updates anywhere for a while so I sort of have a bunch of them piled up. Here we go...
( Lots of pictures and some chatter below the cut )
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Cross-stitch Sunday
I forgot to post last week so this week's installment is a day early to avoid forgetting again. Still making decent progress, I ran out of the pale blue just after I made the last post, but I got some more of that and finished off all of that colour, only to run out of the medium blue...so now I need to track that down, hopefully I'll be able to get to a craft store soon as we're really nearly there!
( Look out below! )
( Look out below! )
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Joan Elliott Spring Fairy
I've been working on this for a couple of years now, injury and bereavement leaving it put on hold, but having had the past week off work I've had a marathon stitch and made a load of progress. It's about 90% finished now, not including the backstitching and beads (so many beads, whyyyy?)
( Pics under the cut )
( Pics under the cut )