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tion this means it boils in the summer and is consistently 4 degrees cooler than the rest of the house in the winter therefore we bought a heated pad for kiki which she absolutely adores it is also big enough for one other cat to be on there with her at any time the cats much prefer to be upstairs which is where our bedroom is 2024 11 30 kiki 2018 11 06 tuki 2020 06 28 marmie marmie had cancer of her mammary glands in september which meant a trip to the vets they think they got it all out however i noticed over the holidays that something looks amiss again and we will be back to the vets shortly we have our coping mechanisms with all this going on and my sister comes over once a week for a dedicated natter and stitch day which is lovely speaking of stitching here s the update i finished the last 21 of sq s golden stairs and completed it on 30 th may it is now rolled up and awaiting framing the golden stairs 2024 05 30 100 0 i then settled on sq s pussy willows the reason for this is that all my stitching materials are still in storage we visited the storage place to see if we could get to them however the room is packed literally floor to ceiling without any walkway to be able to access anything nightmare therefore i had to choose a piece that a didn t have too many colours and b would fit on the bars i happen to have with me pussy willows 2024 10 07 after the monochrome of pussy willows i needed something that had some colour in it and as scarlet quince closed at the end of december i chose three spirits from their selection i had half the colours in my current stash formed from golden stairs and pussy willows and bought the rest as and when i could it turns out that the background is well beige however this works out well because it is quick to stitch and provides relief in respect of the confetti of the coloured bits here s where i got to on 16 th december and here is what it will look like when completed click on the image for the full photo it is so joyful 2024 12 15 22 9 i already have my next project in mind and it will be one that i chart myself using with permission your heart a picture from the wonderful sam cannon art i have gone for maximum difficulty as i want to keep the fine detail i will stitch it with one thread over one on 22 count hardanger to try and keep the size manageable because you know my wide bars are in storage it will also mean taking a break from blended threads i think three spirits will take another 9 12 months so it will give me a chance to accumulate the 200 thread colours the piece is 281 000 stitches so i reckon it will take about three years to complete that s all for now folks i hope your new year finds you fit and well and with hope in your heart for a joyous 2025 cross stitch the golden stairs welcome 2024 01 01 2024 30 12 2024 life s apprentice 4 comments this is a repeat of 2023 s opening paragraph and it still stands 2023 was a hell of a year for our little family me him and nine cats which is why i have been quiet for all of it we are starting to see light at the end of the tunnel and are almost ready to make an offer on a property we have had our eye on for quite some time i ll let you know how that progresses my dad died in april this year and as i work part time i volunteered to handle the administration of his estate while consulting with my sister and brother most of the work has been done except for the sale of mum and dad s home which will be the task for early 2024 while all this was going on my mil with whom we live at present was diagnosed with dementia both vascular and alzheimer s this explained her behaviour during 2022 early 2023 when she was mainly in vascular mode challenging to say the least we have now come to recognize the difference between vascular and alzheimer s and can adjust to her behaviour accordingly i am just so grateful that she can afford to have carers for the personal tasks i did this job for the first couple of months and i struggled as i did not know what to look for in terms of pressure sores and handling someone who was violently uncooperative all is well now as far as it can be as you can imagine stitching was my solace i have focussed only on the golden stairs this year as my stitching stash is still in storage here s where i started the year 2023 01 01 27 4 here is where i ended the year 2023 12 31 77 8 and here are the ladies in all their glory end of row 2023 12 31 77 8 i completed 50 4 of the piece in the year which equates to 0 97 a week i also changed my stitching style from cross country to working left to right and not leaving a gap between the left hand side wall and the next stitch this slowed me down a bit but it meant that my crosses were more even in size i found that when i backfilled after going cross country the stitches were a lot smaller than the first ones stitched even when using a hoop this means a lot more ninja stitches but less confetti so there are fewer mistakes that s all i m able to talk about for the moment here s hoping i ll be able to post on a more regular basis throughout 2024 happy new year to you all bibliotheque chatelaine designs collecting shells cross stitch janlynn nordic santas scarlet quince pieces sparkling peacock mandala the golden stairs happy new year 06 01 2023 06 01 2023 life s apprentice 2 comments 2022 was a hell of a year for our little family me him and nine cats which is why i have been quiet for all of it we are starting to see light at the end of the tunnel and are almost ready to make an offer on a property we have had our eye on for quite some time i ll let you know how that progresses 2022 03 12 bibliotheque by gerald murphy scarlet quince so on to the stitching that has saved my sanity for the last 12 months the first to be completed was scarlet quince s sq bibliotheque i started this in august 2021 and took 30 weeks to stitch it finishing in march 2022 there were large chunks of pattern with the same symbol with the notable exception of the bust of ralph waldo emerson and the globe hence the relatively short stitch time for an sq if you know you know needs framing 2022 06 12 no 14 2022 06 12 no 15 2022 03 20 no 16 2022 03 20 no 17 2021 07 18 no 18 2021 07 18 no 19 lucie heaton s nordic santas this was a project hangover from 2021 when i had enough of stitching santas the finisher in me wanted to get the project completed in order that at some point i could get them framed as gifts so here are santas 14 15 16 17 18 and 19 i stitched these in march june and july alternating stitching with sparkling peacock 2022 07 03 sparkling peacock mandala chatelaine 2022 07 03f outer feather 2022 07 03e diagonal flower 2022 07 03d diagonal flower 2022 07 03c peacocks 2022 07 03b centre panel sparkling peacock mandala is a beautiful chatelaine i had stashed the kit for some time back i scrapped the pennies together for the material and we were off i remember watching yellowstone for most of this stitching except for when i was attaching the 4 688 beads and 53 crystals there are mistakes of course there are it s a chat but only i know about them it certainly made me up my beading game and i was very happy with the finished piece needs framing 2022 08 14 collecting shells janlynn collecting shells is a janlynn kit my dear departed mother gave me it reminds me so much of my childhood when our family went to the local sandy beach to explore and pick up shells i hadn t stitched it because i had bigger projects on the go it was more challenging than it looks as there are a ton of tent stitches half crosses and it was on a paper pattern the first thing to do was to convert the pattern onto markup rxp software as it could cope with the backstitch marks which pattern keeper couldn t at that time this took an age as the creases in the paper made it very difficult to line it up so the pattern was all on one electronic page thank you dh for your technical skill it was a case of manually highlighting and clearing the symbols but it was still better than using paper the pattern itself was a bit boggling visually as the beach is all horizontal stitching so i had to count very carefully this took me seven weeks during july and august needs framing 2023 01 01 27 4 on to my latest project for which i had half the threads and none of the material my darling sister gifted these to me as she knew what was going on in my life and the need for a project to keep my hands busy and my mind in check i started this piece at the end of august and am 27 4 of the way through there are 18 faces and a ton of ninja single stitches so my average stitch rate is about 117 per hour i anticipate completion being around 53 weeks time unless i get bored with the beige and swap something else in it was during 2022 that my sister also started cross stitching as her hands were starting to hurt from her other repetitive hobbies she is an excellent patchwork maker knitter tatter and crocheter we now have weekly stitch and chat days and long may that continue we both put into the stash of threads i have and it was lovely to introduce the joy of larger pieces to her we had a nice picture of sunflowers at the bottom of our stairs and she asked me to convert it to a cross stitch chart which i did using chestnut pens software as that allows you to use blended threads and exercise control over the complexity of the pattern i believe it will be the last time that she goes for the most complex option this is her travelling piece for when she comes over for our stitching day at home she is doing a fabulous butterfly from heaven and earth designs so that s all my news that i m able to talk about for the moment here s hoping i ll be able to post on a more regular basis throughout 2023 all my cats bibliotheque chatelaine designs cross stitch dumbo la designs night whtos nordic santas scarlet quince pieces merry christmas and a happy new year 31 12 2021 31 12 2021 life s apprentice 2 comments take heed my friend you are never alone for you walk with angels everyday by athey thompson i believe 2021 truly takes the biscuit with all that s happened in the last 12 months both worldwide and personally let s have everything crossed and see what we can do ourselves to make 2022 a much better year on that note here is a roundup of stitching finishes for this year first up is night with her train of stars which took me from january 2019 to april 2021 to complete this pattern was created by scarlet quince i used to have this as a poster and have always loved it once framed it will have pride of place in my bedroom 2021 04 29 night with her train of stars by edward robert hughes scarlet quince next is dumbo which is a birth sampler for my lovely great niece i created the pattern using an image found on the net and i went for maximum complexity and colours dates are obscured to protect the innocent after the eye taxing dumbo i decided to create a jolly santa project where i tweaked a number of santas for various people in my family the patterns are by lucie heaton although i added the beads and the over one method for their faces to create a finer finish i had all the threads and beads in my stash and the material came from offcuts from projects that had been framed and i had requested that the framer hand back the material he didn t need at some point these will be christmas presents as you can see from the numbering there are still a few to go 2021 07 18 no 1 2021 07 18 no 2 2021 07 18 no 3 2021 07 18 no 4 2021 07 18 no 5 2021 07 18 no 6 2021 07 18 no 7 2021 07 18 no 8 2021 07 11 no 09 finished 2021 07 11 no 10 finished 2021 07 11 no 11 finished 2021 07 11 no 12 finished 2021 07 18 no 18 2021 07 18 no 19 after the santas i was scratching around again for something to stitch and i was hunting for something that didn t cost much to kit up i had a piece of material only slightly smaller than i would have liked but i also had the thread and bead kit already for all my cats which was a joy challenge to stitch this pattern was from chatelaine de 2021 08 13a finished last but by no means least is bibliotheque another scarlet quince pattern currently standing at 62 complete in this photograph for this one i already half the threads but needed to buy the other half and the material i started this one in august and i estimate i have 2 3 months left to go a sound investment as i know stitching saves my sanity end of row 2021 12 29 on that note may i wish you the happiest of new years all my cats chatelaine designs cross stitch nordic santas summer 02 08 2021 life s apprentice 2 comments a pocket full of sorrows i shall take away for you a hand full of flowers i shall lay down for you a river full of tears i shall cry for you a forever full of memories i shall remember of you by athey thompson it s a sad poem i know but our family laid our mother to rest in july after a short illness she was a beautiful person through and through and i miss her greatly stitching was a boon in this stressful time and i managed to complete 14 of my planned 19 nordic santas i am waiting on getting hold of one of the original santas i did back in 2016 so i can have a look at the material and beads i used as i foolishly failed to make a note of these when i stitched them this is so that the ones i stitch this year won t look odd when they are displayed together here are the finished ones 2021 07 18 no 1 2021 07 18 no 2 2021 07 18 no 3 2021 07 18 no 4 2021 07 18 no 5 2021 07 18 no 6 2021 07 18 no 7 2021 07 18 no 8 2021 07 11 no 09 finished 2021 07 11 no 10 finished 2021 07 11 no 11 finished 2021 07 11 no 12 finished 2021 07 18 no 18 2021 07 18 no 19 i was then at a loss for my next project as i knew i needed material so i just spent a couple of days organizing the thread boxes for bibliotheque by gerald murphy scarlet quince then just to make sure i re measured all the odds and ends of material i had in my stash i knew they wouldn t be big enough for the scarlet quince or chatelaine items in my project stash but maybe enough for something smaller success i had been very generous with my framing allowance for all my cats chatelaine and i had a piece of belfast linen only 5cm smaller than ideal but it was big enough to fit the stitching on comfortably here s what it will look like when finished all my cats chatelaine as i had ordered the variegated threads and beads from european cross stitch a while back and so had them in my stash i was able to crack on here s where i am up to after a couple of weeks this image is a composite as i did not want to unscroll it from the frame 2021 08 01 this project will probably take me 2 3 weeks more to complete so i will work on getting sufficient material and missing threads for bibliotheque i hope you are all keeping well and finding solace in what makes you happy see you in the autumn much love christine baby sampler bibliotheque cross stitch dumbo la designs night whtos nordic santas spring is here 10 05 2021 life s apprentice 4 comments 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