The Girl that Stitches

I’ve been working on the Phelan Chart: “Of Earth, Air, Fire & Water." Finally I have finished the first page! Her hair has toned down a bit now the surrounding colours are in! Progress: Halloween Chart If you missed the butterfly freebie for Halloween here it is again!: Happy Halloween and happy stitching! xxx

  This giveaway has been inspired by Heather at Fantasy Cross Stitch! Heather has generously gifted me with a chart I absolutely love (to be revealed very soon) for guessing the phrase she is currently stitching into a Love Thy Thread chart.   Click here for Heather’s Blog.   I feel very blessed and wish to pay the generosity she has shown me forward!   Easter is also a great time for fresh starts/new beginnings, so I am running a chart giveaway because I think you’re all good eggs! ;) Prize: One winner will be picked to receive a Heaven and Earth Designs chart of their choice* *The chart must be currently available on the HAED website and will be sent as a pdf via the RAK system. Please Read The Entry Rules: To enter leave a comment on this post sharing which chart you feel is so eggstraordinary you would drop all your current wips to start stitching it! You must be following my blog publicly .  Entries close on the following date ...

Washing Umbrella Sky: It took me about five months to get the courage to wash Umbrella Sky. Besides I wanted to enjoy looking at it for at least that long in case something went wrong (I was concerned about the reds running).  Thankfully it went well and no thread ran! She was washed in cold water with a tablespoon of Orvus Soap (also called Quilt Soap).  I washed and rinsed her twice because she was extra dirty and needed it!  After that I rolled the stitching between two towels to squeeze out the excess water. She was ironed (straight away) with a plain color tea towel over the top. Usually you iron the piece face down, but I found this was not as effective at getting wrinkles out. It worked much better ironing face up (with tea towel over top). Then she was left to dry on a flat surface. I stitched my name and years worked on into the border: Framing Dilemmas: Different framers had different ideas on the best way to frame a work like this.  This...

I have finished the butterfly! Well the stitching part anyway… Now I just need to make it into a cushion cover! As a thank you to everyone who is following my blog I would like to share the chart I made as a free download.  If you are interested in stitching this design please feel free to download it and make your own butterfly.   I would love to see pictures of your stitching if you do stitch it! Feel free to leave a link to your piece in the comments section. Click on the picture below to download the chart:)

I have been working on a small side project (small compared to the HAED’s anyway). I’ve stitched an 8x6 inch butterfly I intend to finish as a cushion. Stitched on 22 count Hardanger, tented 3 over 1: Outline: I have started filling in the colors and have really enjoyed stitching this. As you can see I’ve brought some purple/grape fabric and two tones of ribbon for making the cushion cover.   I couldn't decide between the green and magenta ribbon... It then occurred to me I could use them both:)  The tone of the green is not really coming across properly in the photo though. Work in progress: As far as the HAED’s go I found some pictures of Iris and Spirit of Flight partly stitched. Reflecting upon this I don't think I will go ahead with Spirit of Flight. The pattern has translated a quite bit darker and I’m just feeling unsure on it now in general. I also think I might go insane trying to stitch two Josephine Wall pieces! So while I contemplate ...

Here is page 28 (I'm not going in order :) There are five pages left till the finish! It's 90.60% complete. I have done 200,061 stitches, but there are still 20,739 stitches left.... 

Here is page 33 completed. Still another six pages to go...  Here is what the whole piece looks like!

Here is page 31... I've skipped ahead a few pages to start the bottom row!  This means I am down to 9 pages till the finish!  Wishing everyone a safe and happy Christmas and Holidays with family & friends :)

I've started the second last row! I'm on a roll and really keen to get this finished sometime in the near future... Here is page 25 completed :) 

Here is page 22! 

Here is page no 19!  It's pretty boring mostly DMC 814-so over that colour right now... But it stitched up pretty quickly without zillions of colour changes :)