Incoherent Scribblings

Look at what I got back from the framer today!

Didn’t she turn out beautifully?! Thanks to Penny at Stitches from the Heart for doing such a wonderful framing job!

After three (3) years, twenty one (21) days, 207.5 hours stitching, and 28 hours beading, may I present in all her Mirabilia glory… Fairy Flora!!!

Fairy Flora
by Mirabilia
March 15, 2006-April 5, 2009
32 Count Self-Dyed “Forest Fantasy” Belfast Linen
Stitch Time: 207.5 hours
Beading Time: 28 hours
DMC Fibers, Kreinik Blending Filament, Mill Hill Beads

I still can’t believe she is done! Excuse me while I dance the night away…

It’s getting late tonight so I probably won’t have it until tomorrow, but I am super close to a happy dance… betcha can’t guess which one it is!

For February, I planned to:

• Participate in the February SAT. – Yep!
• Finish “Kitty Cottage Sampler.” – Yep!
• Work on (and hopefully finish) “Summer’s Magic.” – Yep! Worked on AND finished it!
• Start beading “Fairy Flora.” – Yep!
• Participate in February NaBloPoMo. – Nope!

Stitching-wise, February was a very successful month. Blogging-wise, not so much. Oh well, that’s the way it goes I suppose.

Now, for March, I plan to:

• Participate in the March SAT.
• Continue beading and hopefully finish “Fairy Flora.” (On March 15, I will pass the 3 year mark on Flo. I’d like to finish her by then, but I will be satisfied if I get her done by the end of the month.)
• Work on “Four Seasons Cats – Fall.”

That’s it. That’s all I am going to shoot for in March. During the second week in March I will be on Spring Break and I am going to visit some friends. However, since they aren’t stitchers I probably won’t even take my stitching with me. In addition, I have a bunch of writing to do for my writing class before we meet again at the end of the month so I anticipate most of my time in March will be focused on that instead of my stitching.

Even though I was only home for part of this month’s Stitch-A-Thon weekend, I did manage to get a fair amount of stitching done.

On Friday night I worked on “Four Seasons Cats – Fall.” As you may remember, this is a project I started a couple of years ago that turned into a UFO. I then organized a round robin and used it for my project, but when it came home to me last week one of the squares was only about 25% complete.

The stitcher who was supposed to stitch this square had some life issues come up and so I had her send it on to the last stitcher incomplete. She offered to finish the square after the last stitcher finished, but I decided it would just be easier if I got my fabric back and finished the square myself. Right now I only have two WIPs (”Fairy Flora” and “Spring Queen”) so it’s actually no big deal to stick “Four Seasons Cats” back into my rotation. (Wow! Only two WIPs! How exactly did that happen I wonder?! )

Today I beaded some more on Flo. I have now finished the beading of her wings and have moved on to her scepter. I actually think that I am probably a little over half finished with the beading now. As I look at the chart I see that I still have to bead her dress, but the majority of the beads really seem to have been in her wings. I decided not to take a progress pic of the beading tonight though because I am going to try and get one tomorrow when it is still daylight and see if I can’t get a better shot of all the bling!