Topic: Cross Stitch
It feels as if I haven't been blogging for ages. And looking back on my last entree, it's been over a month. Fortunately, I have quite a few pics to show and new starts to report.
First of all, a big thank you to Christine in Canada, who was my exchange partner in the Spring Exchange. She stitched me a lovely sweetbag with Lizzie Kate's latest freebie and a scissor fob as well. The scissor fob is over one and it's gorgeous. I also received several goodies, which will come to good use.
And since my exchange gift was received as well, here's a picture of it. I stitched a design by Ewe & Eye & Friends from the 2006 calendar that was published last year. The calendar comes with the aida to stitch on, but I don't particularly like stitching on aida so changed it to linen and turned it into a needlebook. It was supposed to be a bit fancier than this, but I decided to leave that finishing for another project that would stay here instead of being a gift :).
I really need to update my list of things I stitched in 2006 as I haven't done so in 2 months. And in that time I managed to squeeze in quite a bit of stitching. Here are in no particular order:
Hob Nob Designs - Happy Easter (guess when I stitched this?)
Marjorie Massey - Bienvenue (I changed the wording to the little motifs I could find on the designs)
Alphabets - Sous mon jarding (this is a minature on 40ct fabric OVER ONE, it is a lot easier than it looks)
Prairie Schooler - S is for Spring (current free chart on their website, go check it out)
Then a progress pic on my letter A project.
Reflets des Soie - Letter A (I am getting close to have this one finished as well)
And I started doing needlepunch. I have long contemplated whether or not to bring this into the shop and have decided to do a few pieces first and see how people like them. This one is done by Little House Needleworks. I am using the original threads and it is going quite quickly. It takes a while to get the hang of how to hold the needle, but I think I am getting there. No picture yet, I forgot to take one with the digital camera.
I started another small project today (Sunday April 30th) and hope to be able to share that later this week.
Apart from all the stitching I reorganized my needlepoint threads.They were in different bags all over the house and how I have them contained in 8 boxes. I have sorted them by color which a friend of mine did and it seems to make sense. Needlepoint is different from cross stitch in that matter. Not many canvases come with a stitch guide, so you choose your own threads. Therefor it makes more sense to sort them by color. I will need to pick up 4 more boxes as I would like to have one for flesh tones, one for ribbons, one for purple and one to have in stock in case I need it LOL.
