I know, I know

The inevitable sorry I haven't posted post.

Anyways, started stitching again:

Dandelion Fairy Kingdom - C.C. Kuik copyright C.C. Kuik and Heaven and Earth Designs
18ct Aida 2 over 1, full cross




QS Spring Luna - C.C. Kuik copyright C.C. Kuik and Heaven and Earth Designs
25ct Laguna 1 over 1, full cross

SK Moon Fantasy - C.C. Kuik copyright C.C. Kuik and Heaven and Earth Designs
25ct Laguna 1 over 1, full cross



Not much to say... working on Life Force this round, I'm going to try to post a pic everytime I switch projects. This appears to be every three to five days. I may finish something someday, maybe. I haven't updated the website because I can't seem to log into the ftp on my laptop. I'll work on it though.

Sigh....

Well, again I go for quite a while without posting. I've started a new job and so many other things have been going on I just kinda got distracted. I've been cross stitching mostly and have two new starts to share.

Here is Dandelion Fairy Kingdom on 18ct 2 over 1, full crosses:



And Spring Luna on 25ct 1 over 1, full crosses:



I'm working on SK Moon Fantasy right now and will try to post a picture tomorrow. The stitch a long at the HAED bulletin board is "water" this weekend. I think I will pull out Mermaid of the Deep and throw some stitches in her.

Sorry!

I know its been forever since I posted, but working the second job is about killing me! I like the job and the extra money, but time is way more precious than it has ever been for me and I really like to use what little time I have actually stitching, rather than blogging about what I'm stitching. Anyways, there's good news. I finished Butterflies Galore Storykeep. It took me almost exactly one month. Yay! Now if only I could finish a QS. I started the SK Moon Fantasy Freebie stitch-a-long over at the HAED bulletin board. I also started another CC Kuik QS: Nostalgia. So without further ado here are the pictures:

I know those are crappy pics of the two starts, I'll get some better ones over the weekend maybe. Also, check out the WIP page on the right column for Rainbow Mermaid updates!

Have a great weekend,
Cheryl

butterflies update

The new job is going well, so far I really enjoy it. It's taking away from my stitching time but I've still been able to make good progress on Butterflies Galore Storykeep. Here is the latest picture:

Hope everyone has a safe and fun holiday weekend. (Memorial Day here in the US)

Mood: procrastinating

Song: Everything Counts - Depeche Mode

rainbow mermaid update

Howdy,

I know I haven't been posting regularly. As is true for many out there our financial situation is not all that hot and I've ended up taking a second job. I'm working in the evenings now which doesn't leave a whole lot of stitching time. I've been able to get some more done on Rainbow Mermaid during slow periods at my day job (one of the reasons I had to take the night job, too many slow periods). Anywho, here's an update pic:

Mood: tired :(

Song: Melt With You - Modern English

butterflies update

I didn't get as much done this weekend as I would have liked. We got a new kitten on Saturday and I spent a lot of time trying to get him comfortable and introduced to the other animals. He loves the dog, and the other cat hates him. LOL I'm sure it will take a few weeks to get it all sorted out. He's only 7 weeks old an quite tiny. Our labrador thinks he's the best thing ever! Our 2 year old calico female thinks he's lucifer. He keeps coming up to her trying to get her to play and all she does is hiss and growl then run away. Two minutes later she comes looking for him. I'm sure she'll settle down soon.





So my stitching time this weekend was interrupted quite frequently, but here's an update on Butterflies Galore Storykeep:

Mood: Sparkly

Song: Strangelove - Depeche Mode

update to butterflies galore storykeep

Here's the latest update to Butterflies Galore Storykeep. I'm averaging 500 stitches per night. I WILL finish this one before I go back to one of the other 850,000 WIP's I have!

Mood: silly

Song: Long Line of Cars - Cake

sorry!

I know it's been too long since I posted. We've been having some personal issues that were taking up a lot of my time. All better now!

Here's some updates:

Steam Punk Fairy - Finshed page 2 and started page 3:


Butterflies Galore Storykeep - Started - About 2,000 stitches in:


I plan to stitch on the storykeep until I finish it. I shouldn't have started another one, but I couldn't help it. LOL

Happy Stitching!

Mood: stitchy
Song: Once in a Lifetime - Wolfsheim

just call me ms. crankypants

I haven't been stitching as much this week, just don't feel like it. I put in a few stitches, then get ADD and want to go do something else. I wonder if it has anything to do with PMS? I might track that and see, could be pretty interesting. Anyways, of course HAED is having their Easter sale, and of course I had to get a couple of things. Here's what I picked up:

QS Alice in Clockwork by Jasmine Beckett-Griffith

Butterflies Galore Storykeep by Jasmine Beckett-Griffith

I will probably not start these any time soon. I really need to get a finish some day!

Mood: cranky as all get out
Song: Lament - The Cure

rainbow mermaid page 4 done

As promised, here is the picture of Rainbow Mermaid. I finished Page 4 today and started on Page 5. Page 5 is the las full size page. I can actually see a light at the end of the tunnel LOL.



Mood: still pretty drenched

surprise!

Well, I told you I started a new big non-HAED project and here it is:



Can you guess what it is?? LOL

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Yep, it's Harry Potter! Well part of his head anyways. I charted this one myself and its going to be huge and very detailed. There are 100 colors and lots of confetti. The part that is stitched is the edge of Hedwig's wing and the beginning of the highlights in Harry's hair. I've wanted to stitch this for a long time. I love the Harry Potter books.

I'm almost finished with page 4 on Rainbow Mermaid. I should finish it today so I'll post a pic tomorrow.

Mood: drenched (torrential rain and flooding here)
Song: How Soon is Now - The Smiths

Some updates and pics

I have been stitching on several projects lately and here are some pics to prove it!

Rainbow Mermaid:


Speckled Fairy:


ACEO Air:


I also started a huge non-HAED project, but I will post about that some other time.

Mood: anti-social
Song: Bio-Vital - Decoded Feedback

i'm here.... kinda

Well,

I just haven't felt like posting. I have been stitching though. I have worked on Steam Punk Fairy, Rainbow Mermaid, and Speckled Fairy over the past few days. I will take some pictures and hopefully post them over the weekend.


DH got his echo results back and everything looks ok. We're eating differently to try to lower his cholesterol, and we've both lost a bit of weight. Hopefully that will continue as I have quite a bit I need to lose.

Prayers to all those up there in the floods!

Mood: Modge Podge (sticky, you know lol)
Song: If You Leave - OMD

Spring is in the air

Howdy!

This past weekend I stitched on Rainbow Mermaid:



I also finished the third column of ten on the first page of Shannon. Sorry no pic of that one.

Mood: Steak
Song: No Phone - Cake

Determined

I'm determined to finish something! I worked again on Steam Punk Fairy last night. I also stitched a bit on Rainbow Mermaid at work yesterday. (Don't tell the boss LOL)

Here's the latest pic of Steam Punk:


I'll probably work on one of the full size charts over the weekend, most likely Shannon or Life Force.

Still waiting on DH's echo results. I think not knowing what's going on is more stressful than anything.

Mood: determined
Song: Wrong - Depeche Mode

No Pics Today :(

I worked on Steam Punk Fairy last night and got almost another column of 10 done on page two. I decided that I didn't like the way the parking was making my stitches come out on the 18ct. It seems bunchy and like the stitches weren't as neat. So from now on, no parking on 18ct with two threads. I didn't have time this morning to take a picture so that will have to wait until tomorrow. Oh, and on Tues night I hardly stitched at all. I just wasn't feeling very well.

Today is DH's echocardiogram so any prayers are well appreciated.


Mood: wiggly
Song: Check in the Mail - General Public

Blah

Still feeling sick. I'm sure not going to let that stop me from stitching though! I worked on Steam Punk Fairy last night, starting to incorporate the parking method. It went pretty well. Because I didn't have the surface area that the scroll frame provides I didn't leave the needle threaded. I just threaded each needle as I went. This took a little more time than I wanted. I'm looking into the spiral eye needles that you can thread quickly. Here's a link to their site: Spiral Eye Needles. I'll let you know what I find out about where to get them and such. Without further ado here's my progress on Steam Punk:



Mood: Snuffley
Song: Shame - Nitzer Ebb

Sick :(

I've picked up quite the bug. Bad sinus and ear infection. Yuck.

I started Shannon by Hannah Disney this weekend and I think I finally understand the whole parking thing. Last time I tried parking I was trying to do all the stitches of one color within the 10x10 block. This caused problems with the threads that were already parked lower in the block. This time I went row by row doing across each row then parking. I was able to stitch much faster for several reasons:

1. I wasn't spending time deciding which color to do next.
2. I wasn't highlighting before I stitched.
3. No threading of needles and changing colors so frequently.

Here's the progress I've made over three days of stitching:


The strings to the right are my waste knots. That worked out very well. I was able to start and stop my threads for the whole column without ever turning the frame to the back side. I only had one knot for the whole weekend. My only issue is that the lap frame I have doesn't fit into my stitching chair.

Plans are to look at floor frames, try the parking on one of my existing WIP's to see if I don't need the frame to do it efficiently. Oh, and get better quick!

Mood: green around the gills
Song: Stripped - Depeche Mode

Sniffle....

I tried to stitch on Steam Punk Fairy last night, but my back was hurting too bad. I had DH crack it (it gets all stiff right between my shoulder blades) but since it had been knotted up all day it was still quite achey. So I just watched some show on the science channel about bugs. Very interesting. Then I woke up with a raw throat and ear drainage, lovely!

Of course HAED's St. Patrick's Day sale started today and I caved. I bought:

Kuik - QS Spring Moony Night
Ravenscroft - Blue Moon
Disney - Shannon

Oh my, like I really need new WIP's!!! I'm going to do the QS on 18ct. I'm going to wait to start that one until I've finished one of the QS's I have already going.

As for the others.... I don't think I have enough fabric to start both of them so one will have to wait. Shannon is calling to me first. I want to try stitching her on my frame and parking. As of right now I stitch everything on a 6" Q-Snap cross country style (well, I finish a small area at a time, but not in measured blocks). I have small hands and I can't hold the 8" ones very easily. I would love to be able to stitch two handed as I'm much faster that way, but I CANNOT STAND to turn the work over to start and stop threads. I plan to work in 10x10 squares downward, park, and use the waste knot method of starting and ending threads.

I'm really not that into the Gustafson's I have started. I love the artwork, but I just can't seem to get into stitching them anymore. I figure that cross stitch is supposed to be fun and not like work, so if I want to ditch something, I can. Besides, no one will yell at me except myself. I really want to stitch on something with some bright colors and Disney's certainly have that!

We'll see how it goes.

Happy Stitching!

Mood - Blue Suede Mittens (figure that one out lol)
Song - Blue Monday - New Order

Steaming Right Along

Got a bunch done on Steam Punk Fairy last night. It really seems to go faster when I'm stitching on the 18ct vs. the 28ct over one. I'm probably doing the same amount of stitches, just the result covers such a bigger area that it feels like more.

Here is my progress as of last night:


I need to work on one of my full size charts tonight, probably one of the Alice ones. We'll see.

Have a great day!

Mood: Pudding Pop
Song: Headhunter - Front 242