Japanese Chatelaine

I finally picked and ordered a fabby for my first Chatelaine-Link to her site to the right. You'll have to wait until I do the floss toss to see what it is. It's a silkweaver fabby, that is all I am willing to say! Few more weeks of collecting threads and i'll be starting! I plan to wait a bit to purchase the beads, as I won't be putting them on until last, or I won't be able to stitch it all using qsnaps.

1st Pic- Robiin Blue Mermaid

I have been working on Robin Blue Mermaid for 4 or so days now. Here is the first WIP. She is stitched 1 over 1 on 28 ct, hand-dyed bluebell Jobelyn





This week I will be working on Mistress again.

Latest Stash

A few weeks back, I bought somethings online. The last of that stuff came in finally. Here they are- 2 charts and some floss for a project. The Bothy Threads chart was half off! Yay to sales.




This weeks dye works floss I got for a project from 3 issues of cross-stitcher-






That isn't a color scan, so you'll have to wait for that unless you have those issues of Cross-stitcher Magazine. One is red, one blue, the other green.

Another Page Complete!

Guess what WIP I just finished another page of? That's right Mistress. Here she is-



This makes 3 pages of 16 complete. I am a bit concerned about the coloring on the skin of the top shoulder, looks a bit strange to me, but I am hoping that once I get more of her done, it will look more natural.

Stash!

When I went to Michaels this weekend to use a coupon, they had sale on kits, I couldn't resist!




My Vikki Clayton silks came in the mail end of last week. I can't wait to start the Chatelaine they will be for!




Couldn't resist a sale at an ONS last week- Lovely charts don't you think? I especially love the Angel Virtue series. I plan to collect and stitch them all.

Stitching case done

DH got the stitching case all done. Here it is full of stuff-

Bobbinating Done!

Yesterday I finished bobbinating all the DMC. I have yet to put everything in the new stitching container, but hope to do that tomorrow.

Today is the weekly SAL for Our HAED friends, I've done about 200 so far, confetti stitches we all know how time consuming that is! I'd like to finish the current page today but that will likely not happen, so instead my goal is by Sunday. That will be my monthly goal met for Mistress so....

I then plan to pull our Robin Blue Mermaid and stitch for a bit, it is nearly spring and I so want something springy.

I got something I won from ebay in the mail today, YAY I love stitching stuff in the mail- 5 Kreinik #8 braids!

Patches

Shopping-New Stuff!

Went shopping over the weekend, I now have nearly all of the DMC line. I am quite pleased about that, I am slowly bobbinating them all, what a pain that is, yet somehow it is enjoyable as well.

I currently have floss in containers in a larger container, It is driving me nuts- so I bought 2 of these-

My plan is to move all my bobbinated thread to the top drawers, While saving the larger bottom ones for storing silks, and other things, like Kreinik, needles, scissors, etc.

Hubby is going to modify them so they are stuck together back to back and put a handle at the top so I can move them easily.







Today I ran out of bobbins so we ran to Jo-ann's where they had some charles craft Monaco cloth on clearance ( .97 cents a piece) They are great size to cut for small projects or for HAED quick stitches.

I have other things coming soon in the mail, You'll have to wait until they get here, to learn what they are.

Dimensions Closing

Have you seen this report yet? I don't buy dimension kits any longer. Yes some kits are cute but the thread and aida is horrid. Still though kits where how I started and I shudder to think of how this will affect people trying cross-stitch. I also wonder about retail stores, Jo-ann's, Michael's, and Hobby Lobby- all mostly carry Dimension kits, Will they close their cross-stitch sections down? I remember not too long back they used to have an entire aisle of just charts and now that is gone.

Mistress after SAL for Our Friends HAED

Another WIP of Mistress. This is after the SAL for
Our Friends HAED. She's coming along great. I'm really motivated now to keep stitching after learning of the finishing incentive on the HAED site.

Mistress After SAL

Here is Mistress after the SAL for Love2Stitch forum.

New Chart

So, I caved and bought a new chart. I was feeling down, and wanted something springy and colorful, when I came across this I fell in love. I love robins and the colors in this are gorgeous, don't you think?


I have my fabby all picked out as well (scroll down for image) I got it shopping after christmas. It's a gorgeous Hand-dyed Jobelyn 28 ct. Blue Bell. I've never used hand-dyed fabby before, so I'm off to see if I need to prepare it special.

I plan to start this today!

Stash

I'm really wanting to go stash shopping. As the nearest good cross-stitch store is nearly 2 hours away, I order by internet (except the yearly trip to the xstitch store).

Unfortunatly with the recent surgery on Mallow, there is no money right now for stash shopping! The good news is that N gets his bonus soon!

Few days away

Didn't get to stitch for a few days, our dog was very sick and ended up having surgery, now is the task of him healing and keeping him from scratching it, so our stitching is suffering. We were able to get a 500 or so stitches in today, so it's a start.

There is a SAL this weekend, so I hope to find some day every day over the weekend to stitch.