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s too close to the dark green and didn t look enough like the overdyed used in the model i really like this series they are easy to stitch no fractionals specials or back stitching and you don t have to invest in a bunch of specialty threads to get almost the same look as the model although it does help to not start too far down on your fabric eyeroll i think i will be diving right in to the next one summer and keep these as my friday night ghost adventures stitch eta oopsie that s 18 ct oatmeal aida sorry about that at 3 02 2012 11 11 00 am no comments tags cross stitch finish lizzie kate thursday february 23 2012 lots and none at all o hai it s tusal time here s where we stand as of last night cat inserted for scale that sad little pile is all i ve collected in the past month the thing is i ve actually done quite a lot of stitching i just seem to have ends long enough to continue stitching with most of the time so they get wound back on the bobbins the projects contributing to that sad little pile shenandoah spring debbee s designs where the squares stop is where my skein of dmc604 ran out the brand new just for this project and no other skein since these stitches used 3 plies that means there s 16 yards of pink in those squares i won t lie i eagerly anticipate the end of the dmc604 squares spring alphabet lizzie kate this one is coming along nicely i m still loving the bright colors i was mistaken last time in that i have changed one of the colors i am stitching this in the dmc substitutions and the two greens were too close for my liking so i changed the lighter one to another color that looked to me more like the one in the picture cross stitch clock the world of cross stitching 177 blue that blue circle is where the clock bits go when this is finished alphabet blocks carriage house samplings 1 over 1 on 28 ct tan linen yep you read that right 1 over 1 on 28 ct this is the smallest count i can stitch without magnification still need a hella bright light to do it i m stitching it in the dmc colors but i m totally copying the cover model and using wdw whiskey for the backgrounds of the words i m still dithering over whether or not to restart america land that i love i did purchase a new piece of fabric for it but i haven t taken the old one off the scroll rods yet so i dunno at 2 23 2012 01 38 00 pm no comments tags america land that i love carriage house samplings cross stitch debbee s designs lizzie kate tusal 2012 wip wednesday february 08 2012 it s helpul when my brain works i figured out today that the dfwcg steampunk tea is actually after all con as opposed to the previously held belief that it is before that sound you hear that s the grinding of costuming gears as they make the abrupt and slightly painful change from tea to apocalypse i now have to get serious about minerva s new outfit and accoutrecrap to do order pattern for outfit acquire fabric for outfit make outfit draft pattern for yardstick ruler quiver thingy find pattern for pencil bracer thingy i think it s in storage make thingies find and or acquire doohickeys to live in on the thingies and then i have to figure out what i m wearing the rest of the con at 2 08 2012 03 53 00 pm no comments tags costume steampunk wip wednesday january 25 2012 tusal and wip report it s the first tusal report of 2012 not a lot so far but i ve not been stitching much tusal january 2012 mostly reds and pinks from my needlepoint project and now for the wips which contributed to the ort jar shenandoah spring by debbee s designs red colorway i confess when i first saw this pattern in the blue green colorway i did not care for it and i am so very much a blue green person i think maybe because with the teal ish canvas i couldn t see the stitches very well it all kind of blended together but when i saw the red colorway at my lns i was all over it the contrasting canvas makes the stitches pop at least to my eyes this is my first real needlework project and i was a bit intimidated by it at first her instructions are really easy to follow though i m enjoying it immensely despite the monotony of the current stitch there are 4 rows of that pink stitch all the way around the center square i will be a laying queen by the time i m finished with it cross stitch clock the world of cross stitching 177 2 over 2 on white 28ct evenweave i started this one last year got a little way in and then put it down i m not sure why because it s a really pretty design bright and happy i guess i was waiting for the dreary days to return or something now i m really digging it again because it s bright and happy spring alphabet lizzie kate 2 over 1 on 16ct oatmeal aida after the fiasco with the winter alphabet i decided to move on to the next season again bright and happy yay i don t think i ve made any color changes this time this is my ghost adventures stitch project the friday night marathon is long enough that i can get 3 4 letters done and here is my first finish of the year this is from a british cross stitch magazine but i forgot to write down which one and which issue and it s at home sometime this week i need to put it in it s frame so i can bring it up to work for february at 1 25 2012 12 39 00 pm 2 comments tags cross stitch debbee s designs finish lizzie kate needlework tusal 2012 wip friday january 06 2012 i m not sure if i need talking down or not one of my long term wips is america land that i love by jean farish i got it when it was a free project on her no longer in existence web site i ve been working on it off and on for almost a decade i just recently finished michigan america land that i love jean farish 2 over 1 on antique white 16 ct aida it looks nice and all but i d be lying if i said i was completely happy with it when i started this i was limited to hobby lobby michael s and joanns for supplies the antique white 16 ct was like soooo kewl from the viewpoint of only ever used white 14 ct younger me lately i ve been seriously considering starting over that s right i m thinking of chucking ten years worth of work i think it could be so much nicer on better fabric like 32 or 36 ct hand dyed evenweave and some of those squares could use a tweaking of the design not much tweaking mind you mostly some color changes am i crazy to even be considering this i do want to finish it because it is a great pattern but it s getting really difficult to make myself work on it and i do have to force myself it never gets picked up otherwise isn t that at least as big a cross stitching sin as starting over at 1 06 2012 02 55 00 pm no comments tags america land that i love cross stitch jean farish wip woe tuesday december 27 2011 my other stitchy habit in addition to certain embroidery habits that shall remain nameless i also make and wear costumes my current favorite is steampunk but i have been seen in belle epoch victorian ish renaissance renfair and original character i am a not paid up member of dfwcg dallas ft worth costumers guild a week or so ago a group of us met up at the lewesville studio movie grill to see sherlock holmes most of us did steampunk here is what i wore skypirate minerva please to be noting i didn t actually make any of those clothing bits all out of my closet it s less stressful that way but i promise i do sew my own stuff too there s a dfwcg flickr stream here if you d like to see more talented people than i playing dress up at 12 27 2011 03 59 00 pm no comments tags costume dfwcg steampunk tuesday december 13 2011 anyone know where i can get a deal on some professional mourners i discovered last friday night that the wip i showed you can not be completed i was rolling the piece up to start the next row and the fabric stuck to itself hmm it shouldn t do that unless it s getting close to the end no oh no please no take apart the frame and unroll it completely winter alphabet by lizzie kate aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh there are three more rows to this pattern the third row would end right about at the velcro on the bottom ooo i almost cried i was so enjoying this one i don t know how i managed it but i started it about 2 inches too far down on the fabric it also didn t help that the evenweave fabric wasn t each of those blocks should be square as you can see they re stitching up rectangular that i could have lived with the finishing at the edge of the fabric not so much le sigh i will restart this one probably next winter i planned to stitch the entire series so i will dig out the one for spring and get going on it i think since i am starting over i will go ahead and get the proper fabric the patterns call for 32 ct and make absolutely sure that i start in the correct place even if that means i have to grid the darn thing blerg here s a closer shot 2 over 2 on 28 ct mushroom monoco i may salvage some of those to make fobs or ornaments astute observers may notice that i have changed the colors on some of these i m still using the called for dmcs except for the white i didn t like how the listed one looked with the fabric but i am substituting where some of them are used after some hair pulling and teeth gnashing and eye tearing i worked some more on jean farish s america land that i love to help ease the pain i finished another state block which did make me feel slightly better i should take pictures of that at 12 13 2011 03 44 00 pm 1 comment tags america land that i love cross stitch jean farish lizzie kate wip woe tuesday december 06 2011 holy fancakes batman there are people reading my blog hello people who think i am marginally interesting enough to add me to your blogroll you realize what this means don t you this means i have to actually post stuff here curses i m thinking about joining wipocalypse i mean it s not like i won t be stitching anyway i might as well show off my progress to the world since the cat is not generally impressed with well just about anything i do speaking of progress why don t i throw some finishes out there this is a freebie from the dmc website it was in their dmc club members area under the patterns for light effects technically every thread was substituted because there was no way in hell i was stitching that entire thing in light effects i did do some actual substitution for a few weird color choices but it is mostly a direct conversion to the regular thread i really like how it turned out i had this on display at work for october and got several compliments 2 over 1 on 18 ct light oatmeal aida this is from a pamphlet leisure arts with several seasonal designs it looks nice but i am not loving it at the moment mainly because i decided to have a new design up at work every month and this was the one for november i had to force myself to work on it to finish it time and that kinda soured me on it i think given time i will enjoy it again 2 over 1 on 18 ct beige aida this is a dimensions kit it s in a floating frame becuase when dimensions says a pattern is 5x7 they don t necessarily mean it fits a 5x7 frame a regular 5x7 cuts off the stitches but i didn t discover this until after i had trimmed the fabric despite the crappiness of the materials i used what came in the kit it s so bright and happy 2 over 1 on 14 ct aida you ve seen this one before but i thought i d show what inspired me to stitch it a coworker gave me the card for my birthday in february when i saw the pattern in just cross stitch i had to stitch it my mom has claimed this one but i brought it up to work to show to the lady who gave me the card and here s a sneek peek of a wip it was orignally going to be the display for december but i decided not to force it i may finish it in time for january but we ll see at 12 06 2011 10 03 00 am 4 comments tags cross stitch finish fluff wip tuesday november 15 2011 i will not have sign up er regret so how ya been i ve been procrastinating myself no surprises there i actually have a few finishes since the last post alas i do not have pictures at the moment place your bets now on how many months it takes me to get them i have made a big leap in blogging and signed up for the 2012 tusal being hosted by the always entertaining daffycat so next year there will ideally be at least one whole post every month how spiffy will that be at 11 15 2011 08 16 00 pm no comments tags cross stitch tusal 2012 wednesday may 18 2011 my first and my latest so i thought my first post with actual content would be a nice place to show my very first cross stitch project ever and my latest finish there s only about a quarter of a century between them and now i feel old my very first cross stitch project ever was for my junior high home ec class i believe i got an a on this i have no idea where the pattern came from or who the designer is my mother bless her still has this on her wall my latest finish is from the may june 2011 edition of just cross stitch magazine it is the may installment of the fresh threads medley series i did not use the weeks dye works wool felt that was called for in the pattern i used dmc variegated floss to fill in the fish and dmc color variations to fill in the flower centers i like how the fish turned out stripey what the hey here s my latest start too this is part one of the tree of stitches sal at thestitchspecialists yahoo group this part is straight up cross stitch so i finished it pretty quick it is weeks dye works rust stitched 2 over 2 on 28 ct white monaco although this is the loosest weave monaco i ve ever seen now let s see if i can keep up the posting in a timely manner thing at 5 18 2011 01 41 00 am 2 comments tags cross stitch finish wip monday may 02 2011 post of slightly more purpose so two years and some change later i m updating ye old blog biggest change new name there s a long rambly not very interesting story behind the name so i won t bore you with it just smile and nod other change new look there s no story behind it other than this was one of the pre fab layouts blogger provides although i tweaked some of the fonts i have this grand idea that i will make this my stitching blog i m not sure i should anounce that oh well we ll see maybe telling people that will actually encourage me to post something every so often at 5 02 2011 03 37 00 pm no comments tags fluff monday march 23 2009 post of no purpose hello i m a placeholder honestly i set up this blog as an experiment since it came with the google account for now i am still journaling over at livejournal user name ashnimehal this post is just so there is something here at 3 23 2009 06 23 00 am no comments tags fluff home subscribe to posts atom blog archive 2012 9 may 1 a very merry belated tusal to you april 1 march 3 february 2 january 2 2011 6 december 3 november 1 may 2 2009 1 march 1 labels america land that i love 3 boink 1 carriage house samplings 1 costume 2 cross stitch 9 debbee s designs 4 dfwcg 1 finish 4 fluff 3 ink circles 1 jean farish 2 lizzie kate 4 lns 1 needlework 3 shenandoah spring 1 steampunk 2 tusal 2012 5 wip 8 woe 3 search this 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