Archive for the 'In Progress' Category
Here’s the stitching I’ve managed since you last saw me. I put about fifteen hours into Juli’s UFO before sending it on its merry way. Unfortunately, I neglected to get a ‘before’ shot, and Claire’s website seems to have disappeared, so I can’t point you to her picture. You’ll just have to believe me 
I stitched all of the tree (brown) you see here. Just tree. Treetreetreetreetreetree. Bo-oring, lemme tell you, but hey, I didn’t have to pull out too many colours of floss or learn too many symbols, so it was the perfect no-brain stitching for me. Plus, it advances the project (which will eventually look like this), and someone else will thank me that they don’t have to do that slab of tree!
December 13 2006 | Counted Stitchwork and In Progress | 3 Comments »
Last night’s marathon (for me) stitching session took Lizzie from here to here:
And now, her bags are packed and she’s leaving on a jet plane for America. Tracey, I hope you enjoy stitching on her
I have nothing more for you tonight - it’s tax night in our house (yeah, I know, we are really, really, really late!) so I’m off to join in the fun 
October 23 2006 | Counted Stitchwork and In Progress | 5 Comments »
I just finished up three and a half hours stitching on Claire’s UFO. 3½ hours! It is a long time since I’ve done that, and I’m sure I’ll pay for it tomorrow, especially in neck pain - I really need to find a better chair to stitch in when I’m stitching for that length of time 
I finished up the right hand border, and ‘Lizzie’ will be in the mail tomorrow. I’ll get a picture for you before she goes.
While you wait, why not go waste some time? Be careful, it’s v.addictive!
October 22 2006 | Counted Stitchwork and In Progress | 2 Comments »
OK, you caught me. I cheated again. I blogged yesterday today. My entire evening yesterday was written off by a migraine such as I have not had in a long, long time. Nasty. Niamh picking yesterday to take an hour and a half to be put to bed (by me… she won’t go down for anyone else yet) did not help matters one bit, either. She just wanted to feed and feed and feed, and if she wasn’t feeding, she was screaming. The screaming, ohhh the screaming Luckily I can breastfeed lying down, because I certainly wasn’t able to stay upright for any length of time. At one point, I just had to put her (screaming) into the cot, and walk away to throw up (sorry, that’s gross). It’s definitely been a long time since I’ve had one that bad.
Today hasn’t been a great deal better. I always have a bit of a hangover effect after a migraine, and on a hot day it makes me feel kind of out of it. We headed off to the park for a bit and I sat in the shade with Niamh while Finn mucked about. I’m feeling okay now that kiddos are in bed and the house is quiet, and I’m hoping to sit and stitch now for a little bit. I’ll be working on Elizabeth - Claire’s UFO. Here’s my progress so far:
Elizabeth when she arrived:
Elizabeth now:
I was hoping to finish up the border at the right hand side before sending her on her way, but to be honest it has caused me some grief - the froggies have come to play on more than one occasion 
Much as I think she’s beautiful, I think if I had stitched this for myself, it would have become a UFO for me too!
October 17 2006 | Counted Stitchwork and In Progress | 6 Comments »
Before today turned nasty, I managed to catch about half an hour stitching time with Niamh asleep in the car as we waited to pick Finn up from kinder. This is where the MiraBee is at now - there’s not a lot of regular stitching to go, mostly beads:
October 16 2006 | Counted Stitchwork and In Progress | 1 Comment »
Finally, finally, I’ve got around to visiting all my WIPs, and writing out ‘the list’. It isn’t as bad as it could be, what with my decision to go guilt-free. (Most of the new starts I’ve had since then have been small projects that I finished off.) The list is still longer than I’m comfortable with though, so soon I’m going to have to have a go at a rotation again to whittle it down a bit. Here’s the list, roughly in order of oldest to newest, and with approximate progress on each:
- Mirabilia - Winter Queen (1998)
- Rajmahal - Brilliant Wind (not cross stitch - this is surface embroidery and gold work) (2003)
- Vermillion Stitchery - International Bears ‘Kaitlin’
(2003)
- Dimensions - Noah’s Journey (Nov, 2003)
- Patricia Allison - Seasonal Dragons ‘Spring’ (Dec, 2003)
- Teresa Wentzler - The Storyteller (Apr, 2004)
- Dimples Designs - Wee Beasties Part 6 (Sep, 2004)
- Chatelaine - Christmas Tree Mandala (Jan, 2005)
- Chatelaine - The Knotgarden (Feb, 2005)
- Mirabilia - The Petal Fairy
(Dec, 2005)
- Mirabilia - Lilly of the Woods (Mar, 2006)
- Mirabilia - Mermaids of the Deep Blue (Apr, 2006)
- Periwinkle Promises - November Sampler Accent (May, 2006)
- The Cat’s Whiskers - Dragonfly Jewels (July, 2006)
- Mirabilia - Bumblebee
(August, 2006)
(I’ve learned that I’m absolutely hopeless at estimating % progress, so some of these are probably terribly inaccurate, but it gives you an idea.)
The list is interesting - I think it shows a good cross-section of my stitching taste. Five out of the fifteen are Mirabilia designs, and four out of fifteen are insect designs (three of those are dragonflies). Of course there are also a couple of dragons in there - there would probably be more if most of the dragon charts I have weren’t so huge.
I’d like to get back down to under 10 projects. I’ll be binning Winter Queen (remember), so that’s 14. Kaitlin is only missing some backstitching (I actually thought she was finished, it was a bit of a surprise to dig her up and find she wasn’t) so I’ll finish her off today or tomorrow, that gives me 13. Then, starting November, I’m planning to pick three projects and rotate them whenever I’m not working on the UFO Round Robin. I won’t start rotating in October as I still have a round of student marking to go (and the less said about that, the better ), and also I imagine it’s going to take me until the mailing deadline to finish up 20 hours on Claire’s UFO.
The first three projects I’ll rotate? Hmmm… not sure. My first thoughts are probably ‘the small ones‘! Bumblebee, certainly. Probably the Periwinkle Promises kit, as it’s something a bit different. And maybe something bigger - maybe MOTDB, which is my favourite of the Miras I currently have on the go. Or perhaps I should choose something older? What do you think?
October 07 2006 | Counted Stitchwork and In Progress | 2 Comments »
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