Queenie and Confetti

6 February 2008 3 Comments

Spring Queen, Progress as of 05.02.08 - Click for a larger image! Well, not only did I finish my ten-hour rotation on “Spring Queen” last night, my new camera arrived in the mail yesterday so I was able to take a decent picture of my progress. I would like to keep working on Queenie until I finish the rest of her chest, but since that is the way that I get off track with my rotation I won’t. Instead I will put her away and move on the next piece, which is… (drumroll please)

“Above the Clouds!”

Yes, the illustrious Confetti is next in my rotation. As I have stated the past three times that it has come up in my rotation, I would love to work on “Above the Clouds” until it is finished, but as most of you know I have nearly burned out with it and demoted it to a UFO each of those times. Therefore, this time all I want to do is to stitch on it for ten more hours.

However, since I keep putting it off, it is very likely that I will start the first in the series of Christmas ornaments that I want to do for my family instead. :lol:

In other news, since I stopped doing exchanges I have considered doing a PIF a couple of times as a way to continue to stitch small gifties for my fellow stitchers. Obviously I have never gotten around to doing so, but yesterday when I signed up to be PIF recipient at Cross Stitch Happy I decided the time had come to officially commit myself to it. Details concerning my PIF will come shortly in a sticky post…

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Weekend Progress

7 October 2007 4 Comments

Spring Queen, Progress as of 07.10.07 - Click for a larger image! Despite having to work yesterday, I managed to get a fair amount of stitching done over the weekend. I am three hours away from finishing my ten-hour rotation on “Spring Queen,” but I decided to show some progress nonetheless.

I don’t really have much to say about Queenie: So far she is stitching up nicely. I did, however, realize today that I don’t have any of the DMC 5282 that this design calls for. Once I discovered that it is a metallic gold, I decided that I will probably substitute it for the Rainbow Gallery Petite Braid 01 that I had left over from “Celtic Spring” though, so it was no big deal.

I also have a little Halloween fob nearly complete except for stuffing it with poly-fil (which I am currently out of) and attaching the cord. I am not in too big of a hurry though… it isn’t for an exchange so I still have 23 days left before Halloween to finish it!

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Thank you to everyone who left me thoughts concerning the recent loss of Harley. I had a rough few days, but it is slowly getting better. Unfortunately, her diagnosis turned out to be terminal. Therefore in all honesty, I am glad she chose her time to depart and I didn’t have to watch her deteriorate any further or make a decision that I have always dreaded making. I will always love, miss, and remember her, my beautiful kitty.

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