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Castle Border Progress

Renée — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:17:11 +0000

I don’t stitch a lot anymore and right now I am fine with that. However, I am still stitching here and there so when I have something to show, well… here’s what I have been working on when I have been stitching:

I am almost half way finished with the border on “Castle Sampler.” I say almost because after I took this picture I realized that I still needed to backstitch the left border.

Cute Castle Progress

Renée — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:20:57 +0000

I finished my second summer class on Thursday, so guess what I did this weekend? Yep, that’s right! I finally got to stitch!!! Here is “Castle Sampler” with a few more over one letters:

And here is “Too Cute to Spook.” Dawn and I haven’t SALed for a couple of weeks due to my schedule, but we plan to remedy that tomorrow.

Hopefully I’ll get back in the stitching and blogging groove soon. Until next time…

A Ghost of a Goal

Renée — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:46:54 +0000

This post is going to be pretty short since I haven’t been stitching much lately. However, I promised Dawn I would work on our “Too Cute” SAL tonight, so here is my progress. I didn’t do all this stitching tonight, but this is where I am since my last progress pic.

I should also do a goal review I suppose.

For June, I wanted to:

Participate in the June SAT. – Nope
Work on (and maybe finish) “Too Cute to Spook” with Dawn.- Just barely
Work on “Castle Sampler” or “Spring Queen” or both. – Worked a bit on “Castle Sampler.”
Work on “Navajo Style.” – Nope

What can I say? I was too busy studying to do much. And since July looks much the same, I am just going to list two tiny goals.

Work on (and maybe finish) “Too Cute to Spook” with Dawn.
Work on “Castle Sampler.”

That’s it.

P.S. If you would like to see the pictures of fireworks that I took over the Fourth of July weekend, click here and here.

A, B, C, D

Renée — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:36:31 +0000

Even though my blog has been quiet lately, I have managed to sneak in a little bit of stitching here and there in between reading for class. So here’s the skinny on what I have been doing lately:

I have made progress on “Too Cute to Spook,” but have been too lazy to take a picture for a couple of weeks. Dawn and I moved our SAL day to Monday, so I will try and take a picture after I work on her tomorrow.

Last weekend (I think) I started a new project called “Lady Rose” by Joan Elliott. I bought this from a stitching catalog that I get and it came as a kit with 14 count Aida and floss “similar to DMC.” Normally I wouldn’t buy a kit, but I really liked the pattern and couldn’t find it any other way. Needless to say, I have switched the fabric from the Aida to a piece of 28 count pinkish Cashel from Silkweaver that I had in my stash (I’m not at home and can’t remember the name right now) and am using proper DMC.

This past week I pulled “Castle Sampler” back out of the WIP pile and worked on my over one alphabet. I chose to stitch “Castle Sampler” on 32 count, so you might think that the over one stitching would be a bitch, but it really isn’t. Of course, using evenweave as opposed to linen might have something to do with that… I do love my linen, but those uneven threads sure can be a pain over one!

Easter Stitching

Renée — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:46:37 +0000

I hope everyone who celebrates it had a happy Easter today. I celebrated by eating the Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs I bought yesterday, revising one of the short stories I wrote for my creative writing class, and stitching. A perfect day!

I hadn’t so much as picked up a needle since last weekend when I finished Flo and I tell you, it was about time. I never realize how stressed I am until I feel the tension drain from me when my needle meets my fabric. And what’s sad is that even stitching over one on 32 count helps relieve my stress!

And speaking of over one on 32 count, I finished the bottom border on “Castle Sampler” this evening. Now that I have reached this particular milestone I am not sure if I will continue working on it or not. I still have some Mirabilia momentum so I was thinking about working on “Spring Queen,” but Dawn and I are ready to start our next SAL too so you just never know…