Serendipitous Jo's Eleventh Frolic of the Year

Posting in a much more timely fashion this week!

Friday was the second Friday of the month which means Christmas stitching.  I've chosen the Christmas Cubes from Primitive Hare for my monthly project this year and here is my progress on the third cube:

There's not a lot of progress there, mostly because I am currently obsessed with my Nora Corbett Fairies.  Here is a corner of E, I am so close to a finish I'm not showing the whole piece until she is done!

Friday was her leg, the metallic (see the glimmer?) and the backstitch including those swirls.

Today I have completed the backstitch and started the beading!  Such fun.  What a shame I have to work tomorrow instead of continuing on her.  Nevermind, she'll be a finish in the early part of next week for sure.

Serendipitous Jo's Tenth Frolic of the Year

Because of one of my colleagues swanning off to New York on holiday last week I had to work a number of full days, 9 until 5.30 which severely limits my stitching time!

However, I do get a proper lunch break when I work a full day instead of only 20 minutes to grab a coffee and a sandwich.  Which means stitching time!

Last Friday I took a new start - Lizzie*Kate's Sampling Easter with me and then in the evening I worked on Just Nan's Counting Bats because it was the First Friday of the month.

I didn't want to take Bats into work just in case I lost it because that project contains all the silks whereas L*K is just scraps and one overdyed.  Good decision as it turned out; I left the project bag in the staff room at work on Saturday!

Two very different projects.  The JN is stitched on 32 count lilac linen using silks with some over stitching (which I love).  The L*K is stitched on 14 count aida.  I KNOW!  Aida!  The thing was, I wanted a nice bright yellow and didn't have any evenweave or linen of any shade of yellow other than pale lemon.  It's stiff and hard but the colour redeems it.

I'm using a Jodyri thread called Crystal Seas for the letters and random threads from my scraps bags for the motifs.

If you like the Easter design, make sure you take part in my Easter Blog Hop because the chart will be the prize.  And a piece of the aida, have to use it up somehow!

It is Friday again today, Second Friday which means Primitive Hare Christmas Cubes come out to play.  Post to follow. 

frolics on Saturday

I couldn't stitch on Friday, but I did manage to get some stitches in on Saturday. I'm back to stitching the Lizzie Kate.

Here's where I was before...



And here's where I am now...

Sorry for all the wrinkles!

'Till next week...

happy stitching!

lynda

Blackberry Jam Progress

Good evening everyone! Today was my Frolicking Friday. I picked up The Sweetheart Tree's Blackberry Jam pattern that I had put away while working on the Alessandra Adelaide Needleworks' compass. The picture above is it before I started working on it this afternoon.

And here's my progress for the afternoon and this evening. Not bad, not bad. I stitched up all the leaves and started to backstitch the leaves and vines. At first I didn't think the backstitching thread was showing up as a different color from the leaves, but I just needed to see it in different lighting :)

I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!!

Until next time >___<

Sharing My WIP Progress... Frangipani Cross Stitch

Yesterday I spent some time working on one of my current WIPs... it's going to take some time, but it's not really a fiddly piece, just LOTS of stitches!

I bought this kit a couple of years ago... I l-o-v-e Frangipani (second only to hibiscus!) and this is going to be a beauty when it's done.

So during Friday, I was able to add the dark green section at the top left, & also the beginnings of a flower petal in white & creams.

This is a kit from Country Threads, design by Fiona Jude & the design is 25cm square (10inches).

Happy Stitching!

Anthea

Me and my wolf

Hi,

Today I worked on this piece and managed to finish it too:)

This little chart is part of a set of Native American Gift ideas in Cross Stitch Crazy magazine (issue 214) designed by Durene Jones. I did not have the threads listed in the magazine so I had to dig through my thread stash and try to come up with good alternative threads. I love almost all the designs featured and I'm thinking of stitching another dream catcher design next...or maybe a beautiful feather design...hmm...

Looking forward to seeing what you've all been working on today:)

Annie

friday frolic frogs

This past Friday was not a very productive one for me! Instead of my Lizzie Kate, I decided to stitch on Strawberry Garden from Blackbird Designs. I really love these designs, but for some reason they always take me some time to really get into the stitching of them. Very slow starts, always!
Anyway, here's where I began;

And here's where I ended.

And then I realized that all those branches on the upper part were started in the the wrong spot and had to be re-done. Not too big a deal, just annoying. except that after re-stitching them, I saw that the bit of the over-dyed thread was way darker than any of the other bits. It looked funny, so...out came all those same stitches again. Stitch once, frog twice!

Oh well, it will get done eventually!

See you on Friday!

lynda