Happy Dance!!!

A new baby is finished. Well the stitching is. I plan on making this into a pillow, which was my partner’s idea! I just have to wait till I have the pennies for the material.  I would love to say thank you to the 2 very kind ladies that sent me the key chart for a new baby after I had lost mine. Without their help I wouldn’t have been able to finish. I randomly emailed around 9 people I have never spoken to before and asked for the colour symbol part of the chart and I received emails from these 2 lovely ladies. If you every see this you are both STARS!!!

So the million pound question is...da da da...what do I stitch now?

I still have black rose to finish, tribal dragon I could start in a week or so (I’m just waiting for the hand dyed fabric to be delivered). There’s elegant kimono but it’s just not calling to me. Call of the wilderness isn’t tickling my fancy and hidden spirits isn’t screaming” finish me finish me”. I have a few small Xmas kits but there my travel pieces so I don’t want to spoil my travel time. I was thinking that black rose would be best but I need to lengthen the fabric as I started too high. So I might attempt that in a little bit.

Don’t forget I have a giveaway going on it will run till the 30^th. If you wish to enter then please comment on the giveaway page. I will be adding a few more little bits to the giveaway. Once this giveaway has ended I will be holding a xmas giveaway which I must admit I have already started collecting for (please don’t tell my partner :P )

I have had my new framey thing turn up. It’s a q-snap frame. I saw that quite a few of you use them and I have to say it is heaven! So easy to hold light, chunky. The only problem is getting the fabric taught but my wonderful other half has that duty now

Finally a decent update!!

I apologise for my lack of chatty-ness lately. Information overload! Details can be found here

So onto the stitchey bit.

I have been making progress as you may have seen from the pictures. “Hidden spirits has been progressing well. I’m still not bored of it yet, which is a good sign. She is almost complete and will only take a little more time. I have decided to call her Mai as it is a Sioux woman’s name. It seems a bit nasty to keep calling her she or her. So Mai it is from now on. Hehe

I haven’t touched “elegant kimono “since I got “hidden spirits”. Well once to move it into the cupboard! *hang head in shame*. I will be starting it again when I have finished the cougar and Mai on “hidden spirits”

just a quick one.

Just a quick update.

Progress on hidden spirits, and part of a biscornu i made while stuck in the car up London.

Prober update tomorrow I promise.

quick pic

almost finished the dress.

progress

leaps and bounds



I seem to be stitching in leaps and bounds lately. Here is a pic where I have left off for the night.  The feather is done and her dress is coming along nicely. I am hoping to have the dress completed by tomorrow bar the backstitching.



After my rather dodgy start the other day I have made progress. All in one night. I was like a stitching machine!

So here it is a new pic of Hidden spirits.



I’ve found working on a dark canvas is bloody hard. Her hair is finished and you can make out her arm. Im planning to work on her face later tonight but theres a stitch i don’t know how to do.

In non stitchey news i just wanted to tell you i have the world’s best partner. His absolutely amazing. I was sedated yesterday for some dentist work. Wow he looked after me, he has all weekend. His brilliant!!! Its slightly annoying that i cant even go to the dentist without coming out covered in bruises

It was a good start

As my son decided to have a three hour bath today I thought I might as well get some sneaky stitching in. That was great till I realised that all the stitching I done yesterday was the wrong way round. Yes the wrong sodding way around. The most basic and first mistake I could of possibly made and I go and do it. I could have cried. So I ripped it all out. While muttering under my breath. I took a deep breath and started it all over again. And I have actually made progress. So here it is:

                        Before                                                              After

 

I’m working on the lady first so she’s done and complete. I started the hand and it seems that she’s going to be quite tough to complete. There are so many colour changes and even a stitch I haven’t used before.