Another finish :)

Finished the May and June Britty Kitty design :) I'm really excited that October isn't over yet - it means I got to start Stargazer Monday night!!

September Update!

Well, I defintitely didn't finish page 1 this month like I originally wanted to. But I think I vastly underestimated how long stitching can take :P Anyway, here's where I was last time you saw it (beginning of Septemberish)





And here's where I'm at now:





Half of page 1 is officially done :)

Which means that as September winds down, I made an early switch in the rotation. This is the May kitty from Brittercup and it feels so wonderful to be stitching over 2 again!!!

Garnet!

I don't have a picture of where I was with this one before, but I've done just under 1,000 stitches this month so far :) She is a wonderful change from Noah's Ark, though the one-over-one stitching was hard to get used to, and my back does NOT love me for hunching over the q-snaps. But I like her.




And here's what she'll look like in the end:

Noah's Ark --- FINISHED

And I even finished it one day ahead of rotation :)

I changed a lot of stuff in this piece. In fact, it was the first time I looked at a design and decided that things needed to be changed for me to enjoy stitching it. I replaced the animals with the Hebrew alphabet. I changed the color scheme in the corners and on the bottom (the tacked herringbone). I took out lazy daisy stitches where I didn't want them.

And it's done.

Now it can go away until I have to frame it for someone for Christmas.


On to Garnet!!!!




      
      



Teresa Wentzler, Noah's Ark
Started: February, 2009
Finished: August 30, 2010

Update coming soon!

After one of the cats peed on Noah's Ark, I have to admit that I lost my stitching bug for a couple days and really just wanted to cry and scream. But the beast is almost done now - hoping to finish it up in the next day or two - and then I will bring you pics, I promise!!!

Noah's Ark Update

Sometimes I think Google really does have the answer to everything ;P Last week I asked you guys for suggestions on what to replace the animals with (thanks for the responses!), but I still couldn't decide on anything. Then I realized that there were 22 boxes (the 4 in the corners have other designs in them). So...I googled the number 22. And it just so happens that there are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet, and there's a free cross stitch pattern for the Hebrew alphabet online. ROCK ON. So that's what going to replace the animals in the little boxes. I think the woman I'm making this for (a woman at church) will really enjoy this.



Anywho, here's where we were the last time I worked on this project:




And here's where I was as of last night:








By the way, picking out one-over-one stitching might be worse than actually doing the one-over-one stitching. Thank the Good Lord for things like seam rippers. I never want to see little piggies ever again :P

Finished!!!

I had to do nothing but stitch this weekend, but the November Topaz Fairy is finally finished!!! There was a Castle marathon on Friday night, and then a Supernatural one last night, and the roommate and I went through a disc of CSI season 2 tonight. It sounds like I do nothing but watch TV, but in reality, it's the background for when I'm stitching ;P And now that this beast is finally finished, I don't have to be so all over it, you know? I can get back into my books, and focus some more on my writing, and maybe even get to bed on time a couple of nights this week ;P It's amazing how "one more stitch" turns into "one more section" and so on and so forth.

I haven't signed it yet, and I have yet to pick out a frame or anything, but she's a Christmas present, so I have some time. Oh, and forgive the holes in her chest and one of the flowers. I realized after taking the pics that I missed exactly 8 stitches. I went back and fixed it, but I wasn't retaking the pictures ;P 




















Next up is Teresa Wentzler's Noah's Ark and, since that's on a stand and not travel-happy, a Mill Hill Daisy kit for the road ;P