Well, quite a bit actually.
I'm going to go right back to where I left off with photos.
I've been stitching along on Poppy Dance by Marianne Broome, charted by HaED. I was working across 2 pages at one point but it felt unwieldy. I have part of page 11 done and have nearly finished page 12. I am using this one for the Full Coverage Fanatics facebook group's Tour de France Challenge and for the Q3 90 days Stitching Challenge. Of course, it will soon be the summer holidays too so this one can get loads of attention. I am at about 42% finished with it. The lines are due to QSnaps rather than stitching.
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| Poppy Dance (Marianne Broome, charted by HaED) 28ct jobelan - white |
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| Col's Creations - 28ct Cashel linen |
They had a lovely day. The initials were a nightmare as I wanted to use the font that was on the invites but had to chart it myself. I now remember why I am a stitcher, not a designer! The best news is that she is due her first child any day now.
I finished a Patricia Ann bauble for the JCS ornie group on facebook. It is so pretty and delicate looking - I must make it up properly! Here it is, hot out of the hoop.
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| Patricia Ann Just Cross Stitch ornie issue 2017 |
Then I finally finished this little one. Prairie Schooler's JCS ornie 2015? It's on black - that is my only excuse. I did FFO it but the repositionable glue I used was rubbish and it all fell apart :(
I'm going to do it properly in the summer holiday.
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| Prairie Schooler Just Cross Stitch 2015? |
Finally, the weekend before I finished off Summer in Sussex, I had a FFOing weekend. I was up to 26 Christmas ornies that needed FFOing and so made a start on them. I tried to make one up to look like a Christmas tree and am thinking of sticking a twig or something in it to look like the trunk. What do you think? Is that a silly idea? All the ones I have seen that are made to look tree-ish are very pretty and primped. I was thinking a bit more rustic looking. So, in no particular order, here they all are.
I know I said finally...I lied. After I finished Summer in Sussex, I was inspired to pull out Cut Thru Stable for a bit. Linda and I started this as a SAL many, many moons ago. Linda's has been finished so long that the girl in the picture has great-grandkids! Mine has grown a bit, well actually, I nearly managed a page finish. I did the back stitching as I went too - Cut Thrus have SO much!
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| Before |
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| After Bothy Threads - Cut Thru Stable |
And now, that really is it. Give yourself a pat on the back if you have made your way to the bottom. That's impressive!
6 comments:
Congrats on all of the adorable finishes Sharon. Nice progress on the stable. Makes me want to pull one out and work on it.
Linda
Good to see you've still had time for stitching whilst studying; it makes for good down time in between all the hard work!
I love your FFOs, especially the tinsel eyelash used for the birds. If you need a little bit more encouragement, maybe you'd consider joining my no-pressure Fully Finished Gallery SAL on the 10th of each month? Details can be found on a page tab on my blog tenhourstitcher.blogspot.com. The more the merrier!
Wow lots of beautiful stitching going on. I think the tree shaped ornament would look really cute with a twig under it.
You have been busy! So many lovely stitched pieces and fabulous finished ornaments! And yes, to the twig.
Wow, great progress on the Stable!
The cut thru stable, nice progress you made. The FFO'd ornaments look great, nice job! The ring pillow is gorgeous in royal blue, such a pretty color. I think you could get a twig or cinnamon stick under the tree shaped ornament. I made one like that with a cinnamon stick..turned out nice:)
Great work this post, especially all the FFO'ing going on. Love that blue tinsel around the snowman ornie.
It's also quite a novelty to see a HAED with more than one or two pages completed! You are well on the way with that one.
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