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Archive for August, 2009

Ready to roll

A quick update for the end of August.  Progress with Woodland Enchantress continues this picture was taken just as I was ready to roll it up on the frame, the bottom is done so now it’s back to the top for the rest of the stitching. 

Now I’m halfway through it’s beginning to feel like there isn’t much left and it will be done soon, I always seem to hit this point but I know that in a week or two it will begin to feel that it’s taking forever so I have to keep reminding myself that there’s still a long way to go.  Must resist starting something else.

It’s about this time that the big manufacturers start to bring out their new catalogues this does not help me with my plan to resist starting something new especially when there’s lots of new kits and patterns on the market.  I can always add things to my christmas wish list though.

Writing is progressing slowly at the moment, distractions are distracting me, but I’m doing lots of background reading and I keep coming up with ideas and imaginings which as long as I write them down I can’t lose them.

New Pictures

Update with a couple of pictures tonight, first we have the completed TeamWork,part of the Cats Rule series by Peter Underhill.  I like this one because it has a black and white cat in it although he’s not as grumpy as the one in the middle, I would have completed this a while ago but it took a back seat while I completed the birth sampler and because I had made a counting mistake that I just could not find.  After putting it aside for a little while it was easier to find the mistake and fix it, so now it joins the ‘waiting to be framed’ pile.

And secondly a new updated picture of Woodland Enchantress now with most of her bottom half done, the next step is to do some of the background and roll the picture up again so I won’t see this bit for a while once I’ve done that.  This one really does seem to be coming on very quickly there’s a few colour changes and confetti areas in the background, they usually slow me down a bit.  The actual finishing of this one is the bit I am dreading the most it has lots of french knots to be put on which isn’t really my favourite stitch so I’ll have to do lots of practice with those.

Once I’ve done this?  I’m not halfway through (yet) and I’m thinking about the next project, which is mostly because I’m feeling very guilty about a UFO (Unfinished Object, for the non-stitchers reading this).  It’s The Enchanter by Teresa Wentzler and it’s ridiculous that this one has slipped onto the unfinished pile, I think it only happened because Iwas doing it just before I took a break from stitching.  I really only have the border to complete and I think I’ve done about half of that; the main picture is stitched, backstitched and complete but I’ve got about half of the outside frame to do, more backstitch and beads.  I really, really should get it finished.

Quick Update

It’s been a little while since my last update, and although I would like to say that I have been busy with stitching and writing I’m afraid that I haven’t.  And yet as I say that I think back and remember that I’ve finished a smaller sewing that was put to one side after a miscount I hadn’t been able to spot, yesterday I put the finishing touches onto the front of the dress of the Woodland Enchantress – I shall get pictures taken as soon as possible .  I also have a growing pile of notes and ideas for a story or two.  I do enjoy spending the whole evening just writing down stories as they come into my head the thing is that as soon as Grumpy Cat sees that I have a pen in my hand and a pad of paper on my knee (whenever I’m working on ideas I tend to not work at a desk) he thinks that he would like a cuddle and will sit on the pad of paper and demand fussing.  I could get so much more done but I couldn’t possibly force him off.

Back to the creativity though and I am already looking at a small project to start next I’ve got all of the threads together and I’m just about to measure out my fabric but I also treated myself to one of the Michael Powell Bookmark kits so I think I shall do that one first, it’s only little it shouldn’t take long.