Slow Progress

I've never been the fastest stitcher but I'm on a real go slow at the moment.  There is a little bit to show you on Chinese Garden though.

 

Hope you're all making better progress than me!

Happy stitching!

Back Again

Yes I've been AWOL again but I guarantee for very good personal reasons.  However, life seems to be back on course and I have finally got round to picking up a needle again - the result being that I've stated Chinese Garden Mandala.

Now there isn't a huge amount of progress, but I hope to knuckle down to it over the next few days (famous last words).

So this is what I have to offer for now -

Happy stitching everybody!

1st Finish

Well here it is, the first finish of 2016.  This piece was charted by my daughter and I stitched it up for her.  I know this picture makes it look like a cushion but that's just the extra fabric folded up underneath it.  She has yet to find a frame for it.

I'm really not sure what to work on next.  I don't seem to have much time for stitching at the moment and when I do seem to be so tired I just fall asleep.  As a result I'm lacking motivation.  Maybe it's time to entice myself with a new start - could it be the first thread for Chinese Garden about to go in the fabric?  We will see.

Happy stitching everyone.

PANIC!!!!!!!!

I've not had much time to do any stitching over the last couple of weeks so I've not picked up Dragonfly which was the original plan. 

However, my youngest daughter has charted a piece from something she saw on tumbler or somewhere so I've started to stitch that for her.  Most of the words are now done and there's just a bit of a border to do.

I wanted to get this done in order to encourage her.  She's quite arty and while this is a fairly straightforward design I wanted her to see it stitched as soon as possible.  She has designed and stitched a couple of pieces before and you never know where things may lead and I want to share my hobby with her.

Hope you like it!

Happy stitching.

It's all in black and white

I had a good weekend session of stitching and have managed to complete the first block of Save The Stitches.

It stitches up surprisingly quickly so may be my target for the year isn't so far fetched.

I've done a bit more on Dragonfly as well and she'll come back out again now - even though Chinese Garden is calling me.

Happy stitching.

New Supplies

The supplies for Chinese Garden have arrived.  Pretty!!!

Sparkly, pretty, lovely, tempting!  I so want to put in those first few stitches. I'm going to resist, for now at least, lol.

But Dragonfly is still progressing.  Here's the next bit, quite a good start for the next page.

Happy stitching!

Another page complete

Yeah, celebration time!!!!

Finished page 15 of Dragonfly, that's another step closer to finishing her.  I'm feeling motivated to complete this now.  It seems so close.  One more full page and then four partial pages.  I might actually get this one done before the end of the year!

Happy stitching!