Flower Power WIP

This is a huge project and will most likely take a year or better to complete. I haven't posted on here in a long time so now I have something to show you all progress on every week.

pics a WIP and quick stitch finish

This is my Monday's WIP. it is Quilt Sampler from the Cross Country June 2008 issue.
My quick finish was stitched on Sunday. Elizabeth's Designs Spooky Tree out of the JCS October 2008 issue. I didn't have the bat buttons to go on it but someone is sending them to me.

progress pic

I am stitching on this Quilt sampler for the next 2 weeks as it is my incentive piece with a BB and is supposed to be done by February 14.

Tuesday's WIP

This is in my Tuesday rotation and is Mirabilia's Winter Queen. I really love working on her.

My new WIPS

Here is what I have been working on since Christams. They are Angels by Ruth Hanke. I am not sure that the pattern is avaliable any more. I have done the two 3" ones to the point of cutting. That will be done when they all are ready to be cut. The colours are hard to see with the pics I know.

This first one is with Caron Wildflowers Delphinium and cream accenting.



This one here is white with blue accenting.



These little ones take about 3 hours to do. Now I am ready to go do the 3 1/2" ones.

New Finish and a New WIP

Ok tonight I finished the top of my Pink Poinsettia Biscornu from the JCS 2008 Christmas Ornament issue.Here is the pic of it. I used Mint Green Linen, DMC Variations numbers 4180 (pink) & 4045 (green) the beads were Mill Hill Seed beads # 02011.


So since that was finished I just had to start the red one. And here is my progress on that one tonight. I am using DMC Variations numbers 4045 (green) and 4200 (reds).



Not sure which one I like better. I think it is the red one.

Wren Song Design Update

Ok so here is the latest on the Wren Song Designs. 4 are done and 2 (one pattern) are left to do still. Maybe this week coming I will get them done. The pattern is called the Bridal Roses. They are not very big 3 inches finished actually. So I was talking with the owner of my LNS this week saying I wasn't sure how I was going to finish these off. They are supposed to be done as round ornaments. Apparently that is a very skilled task to be able to do. Sounds to fussy for me. So we decided I was going to get some cream to beige cardstocka nd make them into cards. I think that would be really neat. The actually pattern calls for the pink colours as seen in the top left hand corner but I decided to change them up a little. The last two I have to do will be the pinks (that are called for) for one of them and then the other will be various shades of purple. The first one took for ever to do but the other three worked up really quickly.

Today I spent time working on my Victoria Sampler Welcome Hearts Bellpull. I finished the petite blanket stitch a cross the top and put in the nun stitch. That took a bit of figuring out. I have started down the last side with the blanket stitching which I hope to finish tomorrow and start the cutting as well. I will attempt to do this on my own but if I run into troubles I have my class next weekend so I should be fine.

Yesterday I met a friend for coffee and while waiting for her I saw another lady who used to work at my LNS. We chatted for a bit and she said that she teaches classes and holds a stitching group at her place twice a month. She invited me to join them. She said the teacher that I am taking lessons from now comes and helps out. I am seriously thinking about joining. She told me to call anytime I had any questions, needed any help or just wanted to show her some of my work. I thought that was very nice of her. I might as the teacher next Saturday what the group is like then make my decision as to weather I will go or not. That would be twice a month and the other two weeks I would still go over to the LNS for "private" lessons.

My Current stuff

This is Wren Song designs on Antique White with Ecru floss. I will be making them into Hardanger Ornaments when I get them finished. Which will hopefully be this week sometime.

Semi Finish

I now have to cut the centers out so I can wrap the bars and make Hardanger ornaments.
The bookmark took me about a week only cause I didn't have alot of stitching time on it. The diamond took me about 3 hours to do on Saturday.

2 Finishes and a WIP

Here is my second Baby blanket. I am doing the 4 corners and the 2 center squares just for something different. This is square #2. The second fish.The green fish is the first center square. I did him 4 times. He is full of mistakes but I was not taking him out again. You would never know unless you had the pattern right there and did a line by line search.

Here is the first corner. This little fish was a fairly quick stitch only took me two days.