The Girl that Stitches

Christmas Spirit I'm delighted to have finished my yearly goal on Spirit of Flight!  The third column is now complete. Reminder of Artwork by Josephine Wall:   Previous Progress: So much confetti on this page!!!: Overall Piece: Christmas Treasures I really wanted to finish the row on Treasure Hunt for the 2019 Goals Challenge.  Since I've been distracted by Spirit of Flight there is little time to get this done.  I've been madly stitching but considering the level of confetti in this it's looking like it might not happen! I'm still going to see how much can be done before the end of the year and will an update on how it goes!  Fingers crossed! Reminder of the Crop, Art by Aimee Stewart: This is where it was at last update: Current progress: Aiming to finish the gridded area! Christmas Butterfly The last butterfly in the Kaleidoscope Collection is the "Holly and the Ivy Butterfly." I created this one with a Christmas influence or inspiration behind...

The Queen of Spades Sends Her Regards For days 25 to 50 of the HAED 100 Day Challenge I worked on the Queen of Spades.  Here is a reminder of the artwork by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law:   Previous progress was up to here: Progress before starting the Challenge:   Progress after 25 days of Challenge Stitching:   Finding Treasure I've also started work on the next row of Treasure Hunt for days 50-75.  I haven't done anywhere near as much as I set out to though... Treasure Hunt reminder.  Crop of artwork by Aimee Stewart:   Previous progress:    Challenge days 50-75: Clay Wrapped Pendants I've also finished several clay wrapped gemstone pendants!   Happy Stitching! xxx  

25 Days of Treasure Hunt I've fallen way behind with my yearly stitching goals...  So when a post for the 100 HAED Challenge came up on my Facebook feed it sounded like the perfect way to get motivated again and catch up!  I've sort of been avoiding my Treasure Hunt crop because it was getting slightly tedious with all that confetti. The aim of this challenge is to stitch everyday though and that has certainly helped progress. I'm going to share the first twenty-five days now! Treasure Hunt Bookshelf by Aimee Stewart (Cropped Version) Reminder: Last Update:   Progress Before start of Challenge (Challenge Day 0):    Progress on Day 10 of Challenge Progress on Day 20 of Challenge; Progress on Day 25 of Challenge: Whole Piece to Date at 64.55% Complete: I'll be switching wips every 25 days for this Challenge.  Some stitchers are opting to work on the same piece for 100 days.  There is so much confetti in Treasure Hunt that I need to brea...

Back to Stitching... Treasure Hunt Bookshelf has been buried in my wip pile for awhile, so I decided to get it out and stitch for a bit!  I last worked on this back in June 2015!  With so many wips, it's kind of unavoidable that some of them start to get neglected.   Still it's been such a long time since working on it, that it almost felt like a new start lol! Reminder of the Cropped Version I'm Stitching of Treasure Hunt Bookshelf by Aimee Stewart: Regular Chart by Heaven and Earth Designs: Before & After: Happy Stitching!!! xxx

Some Treasure: Treasure Hunt is moving along slowly… I’ve started on page five of the cropped chart. Stitching this in conjunction with the Mystery Chart has me suck in a pit of never ending confetti! Previous progress: Current progress:  The hourglass is starting to appear! Update on the Floss Organizer If you haven’t already noticed the Floss Organizer I made has recently been revised.  I added a skein estimator, percentage calculator and fabric calculator. Since the document has become quite fancy, I also created a User Guide to make it easier to navigate through the different sections and see how it all works. These are both available on the downloads page. A Little More Mystery: Here is where the Mystery Chart is at! I’m falling behind with this one and need to get a move on with it! Previous progress: Current progress:  Happy Stitching! xxx

This year I am participating in the HAED BB SAL (Heaven and Earth bulletin board stitch a long). At the start of the year I set the following goals for 2015: Treasure Hunt: pages 3, 4, 5, 6 ( have currently completed pages 3 & 4) Nocturne: pages 4, 5, 6, 8 (have currently completed pages 4 & 5) Iris: page 2 and 3 (have currently completed page 2 and about half page 3) Even though I’m about halfway there I still feel there is lots of stitching remaining! Especially on Treasure… One page of treasure seems to take forever! I really want to meet these goals and have been trying to work out a rotation that meets them and also introduces the new pieces I’ve started… but from my calculations I’m being a bit ambitious.  So the plan is to focus on the goals I originally set and to also get the mystery chart completed by the end of the year so it can be gifted.  That’s going to be a challenge in itself as that mystery chart is the most detailed pattern I’ve ever att...

Treasure Hunt is such a confetti heavy pattern that it seems to be taking a long time to get not much done!  I admire anyone braving the whole chart!  Page number three of the cropped section is now finished and I'm just over halfway through page four.  There are ten pages all up. Previous progress: The project was not fitting on my q-snap frame well (I had to hold it with the longer length as the height, which just felt weird) so I went a hunting for my old scroll frame, which has been tucked away in the cupboard catching dust for some time!   All of my other projects are too big for this frame but Treasure Hunt fits on there nicely.  Now I'm back to stitching with the frame being longer in width which feels less weird!  Having the two frames in use means I can work multiple projects and not have to swap projects on and off the q-snap as much :D  Yay! This was also timed well because now the stitching won't end up with indentation marks from th...