The Girl that Stitches

Iris Keeper of the Rainbow Things have been crazy and I've not done much stitching over the past month!  I've finally finished page six of Iris which means the top row is complete.  It's awesome to finally have a row finish!  Even though I didn't manage to finish my yearly goals, I am very happy to complete my half year goal.  Previous Progress: Current Progress: Showing  off the sheer scale of it!  Pretty much covers the top of my kitchen table!: Which to Stitch? Since I'm working on so many projects, I thought it might be fun to have vote on which pieces everyone would like to see more progress on over the next couple of months and the start of the coming new year.  Here is a reminder of all the projects I have on the go.  Please comment below to vote for your favorite!: Enchanted Manor Iris Keeper of the Rainbow Nocturne Of Earth, Air, Water and Fire   Rainbow Girl Robber Bridegroom ...

Robber Bridegroom It's been awhile since I've shown progress on the Rachel Marks fairytale piece "Robber Bridegroom."  Actually, it was around Halloween last year when I finished the top row!  Now I've skipped ahead to work on page 8 for my yearly goals.  Here is where it was at the last update: Traveling with my HAED I had a three hour train trip the other week and managed to get quite a bit of stitching in!  I made my wip much smaller to make it more travel friendly. I usually work on a much larger q-snap but switched to a 12 inch frame for traveling.  I fit everything needed for stitching into a small zip up bag! Start of trip:  End of trip: Current progress: I didn't get a page finish in but the section left on this page is part of the collar on the man's tunic/top.  This will have metallic threads worked into it like the collar back on page three. So I'll be getting the metallic threads out when I come back to this one! S...

Enchanted Manor The past couple of weeks I've been working on page two of my Enchanted Manor Crop. Previous Progress: Current Progress: Iris I also stitched in all the parked threads leftover from the Challenge.  This is page 6 of Iris Keeper of the Rainbow: Previous Progress: Current Progress: Happy Stitching! xxx

Heaven & Earth Challenge I've been working on the HAED Summer Challenge over the past couple of weeks.  The weather in Australian has been far from summery! Anyway, the challenge was to stitch 10 squares in a checkerboard format, feathering the edges.  I've used Iris Keeper of the Rainbow again.  I'm working on page 6, which I'd previously skipped.  I decided to park threads on this one, like I did with the previous Checkerboard Challenge . Previous progress: Challenge completion: Violet Light For my Birthday back in August I received this beautiful piece of 25 count violet cross stitch fabric from my friend Cathy Jordan.  Sending out another big thanks to Cathy!  This one will be for the Elementals chart by Josephine Wall.   I was also blessed to receive a magnifier lamp for my Birthday too... I've wanted one of these for quite awhile and have really enjoyed using it with my challenge piece.  It will b...

Well, I've been stitching on Treasure Hunt Bookshelf for the past couple of weeks and here is a quick update to show how far it has progressed.  There is a lot of confetti happening, so progress is still moving quite slowly.  Previous progress:   Current progress:    Happy Stitching! xxx 

I'm feeling a bit dismayed by the scale of restoring all the photos on my blog since the "Photobucket Incident".   So far, there are around 500 photos I've been working to re-match to all my blogs!   Thankfully most of them have the date labelled on them, which sort of helps.  It's still a work in progress, so if you're exploring my earlier blogs then you may find some images still missing. Unfinished Bits & Matisse's I’ve completed a few little projects I’ve been meaning to do for some time… Matisse (my cat) destroyed her scratchy pole… Rather than purchase a new one I decided to restore it using the small amount of green rope leftover from making the rope mat back in May.   I also purchased some more sisal rope for the top.  A big thank-you also goes out to my neighbor Rob for the hot-glue gun and for helping to re-stick and splice the rope! Here are the results: Before, Totally Destroyed... lol!: After, Totally Restored: Matisse's Trail of De...