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diane s craft blog diane s craft blog a blog about cross stitch quilting and other crafty stuff about me melbourne victoria australia view my complete profile current rotation backstitching cottages at oak bluffs ii my rotations 1 verandas of south battery barbara cheryl 2 strahan tasmania juniper designs 2011 finishes jade s green fleece blanket 2010 finishes cross stitches life is a journey daydreams chinese culture i lanarte chinese culture ii lanarte latrobe terrace juniper designs other projects jade s rainbow rug hooking pillow jade s green summer dress japanese fabric necklace lighthouse rug hooking brown rug hooking jade s communion stole hot pink scarf new zealand possum scarf 2009 finishes the fabric collector 1 the fabric collector 2 santa xmas calendar golden gate bridge 2007 finishes quilts china quilt northern woods flannel quilt matchbox flannel quilt star wars flannel quilt bright flannel quilt cross stitches cottages at oak bluffs i search this blog followers my blog list kathryn in nz the perseverance continues 9 years ago australian gymnastics blog how the west was lost 10 years ago kathy s stitching blog well a few days late but it was a holiday again 13 years ago round off backflip nationals 15 years ago jarrah s orthodontic blog so much pain 16 years ago ridstrom in melbourne stand its done 17 years ago photos of my crafts diane s craft photos blog archive 2016 1 october 1 wow cross stitching again 2011 6 may 1 april 1 march 2 february 1 january 1 2010 27 october 2 september 3 august 1 july 4 june 3 may 4 april 3 march 3 february 4 2009 43 november 2 october 3 september 6 august 4 july 10 june 5 may 2 april 5 march 6 2007 7 june 1 may 1 april 5 thursday 27 october 2016 wow cross stitching again i have been working off and on mostly off on my cross stitches i lost motivation for whatever reason and life generally just got in the way part of the lack of progress was that around four projects all got to the backstitching phase and it was difficult to do that on the go and just a pain to do nothing but backstitching well over the last month or so i ve put in a push on the rocks sydney and today i finished it backstitching and all that motivated me to survey my other lapsed projects and try to finish them so i also did the remaining backstitched labels on latrobe terrace so two australian street scenes finished today i also checked the new england sampler and it too is finished and once i undo and re do some minor backstitching on cottages at oak bluffs ii that will also be finished i started a new australian street scene today strahan tasmania it s tough to start on an empty piece of fabric after working on many more advanced projects makes me more inclines to put in more effort on the other active projects i have a nearly completed cross stitch of my mother s featuring birds and a cat typical of the sort of things she did i have the pattern but discovered i don t have the pattern key so i am going to have to figure out what colors go with what symbols that s going to be fun but as that project is also almost finished i m inclined to work on it sooner rather than later speaking of my mother s cross stitches i have inherited a bunch now dad passed away last month and we had to clean out his house i couldn t bear to see my mother s cross stitches just get thrown away so i took as many as i and my suitcases could hold i will put some of them up as i unwrap them posted by diane at 10 01 pm no comments thursday 12 may 2011 big progress on two projects i ve been continuing with my rotations despite not posting and have made big progess on both the new england sampler and sydney on the sampler i ve completed the band with the flowers i think these are the state flowers of each of the new england states i ve then done just over half of the band below that with some more new england historical and cultural scenes i am getting very close to finishing this project which i bought in 1996 i can t believe it without the rotation system i don t think i would even have started it yet rotations are amazing new england sampler with flower band finished and half of cultural band done close up of left side of bands worked on close up of right side of bands worked on i also bit the bullet with sydney rocks project which never seemed to really get going i ve nearly finished half of it now i breezed through the large tree in a few days and previously i thought i d never get through it then i went on to another page and have done the bulk of that with only minor bits to finish it off i m now backstitching cottages at oak bluffs i did some at a gymnastics competition but it was hard to follow sitting in a folding chair without anywhere to rest my pattern i m back to dragging my feet again but at least i am on the second house of this project too many of my projects are at the backstitching phase posted by diane at 11 31 am no comments labels new england sampler the rocks sydney wednesday 6 april 2011 doing a bit now and then i finished my verandas rotation then didn t do any work the next week that s bad the backstitching on house 1 is coming along and you can see the progress in the photo i also finally bought some blanket binding for a new fleece blanket for jade it s in a beautiful cherry red and i just love it so this small project has the dubious honor of being my first finish for 2011 nimbus fully approves of it as well posted by diane at 10 41 am no comments monday 14 march 2011 slow progess but finished backstitching 1 house i think i m not in the mood for fiddly things or for undoing mistakes so that s part of my problem in getting back into stitching i had a bit of taking out on the backstitching on this to do as i d used the wrong color under the jade window arches i ve undone and re done the backstitching under the ground floor window arches for now i ve left the upstairs window maybe when this rotation comes around again i ll decide to undo it or not anyway i m on to my next rotation verandas and have started the backstitching on that and have made a few mistakes and undone them too i seem to be really worried about what color to backstitch where i ve started on the house on the far left the one i just finished cross stitching and it s shaping up nicely so far i really want to finish a few of my projects that are close to being done so i can move on posted by diane at 5 28 pm no comments friday 11 march 2011 still dragging my feet this year has been a tough one as far as adjustments go and that has left little time or energy for crafting never mind getting all the everyday things done both kids have had big steps up to take and i ve had to spend quite a bit of my energy helping them my son jarrah has changed schools gone from a public school to a private school where academic expectations are greater and entered senior school he s had to adjust to new travel arrangements to his new school which involve taking up to 3 buses the few times a week when we don t drive him initially he wasn t happy about changing schools but is now settling in well making friends and improving his grades my daughter jade has gone into year 5 which is a big step in primary school she has also taken a huge step up in gymnastics to the top international squad at her club adjusting to 3 new coaches and to working along side girls who are on the australian national team she s training an additional session and up to 29 hours per week she s also started studying in an intensive scholarship test preparation class on sunday mornings this class gives her up to 5 hours of homework per week so she is getting very skilled at micro managing her time so for me there has been additional driving for both kids and providing much more homework help then before so you can see where crafting time and more particularly available energy has gone as the kids are settling in i m also potentially taking on two more part time jobs this year more on those in time it is frustrating to be so close to finishing a number of projects and to not be actually finishing them off i think i m backstitching 3 projects at the moment and i ve never done that before i pulled out cottages last night and finally worked through my backstitch problem with it i used the wrong color to backstitch under the eaves of the windows on house 4 so i undid that stitching which was very fiddly and started to re do it and i also stitched other areas i just need to keep up some momentum and keep going posted by diane at 9 15 am no comments sunday 20 february 2011 when she was good she was very very good when she was bad she was horrid so goes the nursery rhyme well here i am trying to get my crafting back on track and trying also to make up for being so bad firstly to the photos here is where i am up to on the new england sampler kind of gave up put aside doing some of the fiddly patterns and went for the simple outer and inner borders at least i got some work done most of my recent progress was completed while on holiday in sydney including on planes and trains so easy borders were the go at any rate it is coming along nicely since returning home from holidays i ve hardly picked up my cross stitch when i have it s been this one the rocks sydney i m stuck in a tree at the moment i ve mainly worked on this while at jarrah s baseball games oh bad mum again not watching the game now i m ready to go on with a new rotation and to get back into the swing of things next in the rotation list is cottages at oak bluffs ii where i m working on back stitching that sounds easy enough let s knock that off before the next two weeks is over since i also blog a bit about what i m reading i ll mention that i m on the third book of the millenium trilogy the girl who kicked the hornets nest brilliant books i put off reading them for a while despite the hype because i was worried about having to read pronounce all the swedish names it hasn t been a problem at all and i m loving the series i hope one day his 4th book will be finished and published posted by diane at 5 26 pm 2 comments labels cottages at oak bluffs ii new england sampler the rocks sydney tuesday 18 january 2011 the longer i stay away the harder it is to get back yes it s been a long time since i ve posted three months in fact the end of the year is just such a crazy busy time for those of you in the northern hemisphere i don t think you can appreciate the chaos that occurs when both christmas and the end of the school year coincide add to all of the shopping and preparations for christmas all of the end of year school concerts and celebrations plus work functions plus in our case preparations for our main summer holiday away then top it off with birthday celebrations for one of our children plus attending other children s parties then add in a minor day surgery for me with recovery this past year we also had my mother in law s ill health and hospitalisation and then finding a nursing home for her she moved in to the nursing home in october but from august onwards we made an effort to visit her very frequently and since she is 30 45 minutes away from us this took up a lot of time she s settled now and doing well but with her dementia she really has no idea where she is at christmas we took her out of the nursing home for the first time and she was confused especially when we brought her back another extra function which occurred in october last year was deciding to change my son s school due to dissatisfaction with the education he was receiving i was very fortunate to find him a good private school which had a general intake at his year level he s not happy about this change so we ll just have to wait and see what happens so does life get in the way of crafting i have lost a lot of forward momentum but have tried to pick projects up at random and keep going we had our end of year holiday in sydney this year and i decided to take the new england sampler with me and i actually worked on it how many trips have i taken including long cross pacific flights where the stitching never made it out of my carry on i got it out on both plane trips which were only 1 hour and a number of evenings and mornings in the room where we were staying i ve continued with it since at home but have decided it is now time to put it away and to get back into my rotations i chose to take this project rather than the obvious sydney one because it is on aida which is much easier to work on when on the go and because it has simpler regular areas of pattern to do so i stitched straight lines and finished the alphabet area at the top photos to follow i just checked to see what my current rotation should be and it is sydney which follows the new england sampler so i have to steel myself for working with linen and on tree branches with half stitches all over the place but first i m going to really finish latrobe terrace which only needs to be initialled and dated oh and i forgot to say i framed a few projects myself just before christmas photos coming posted by diane at 7 42 am no comments labels new england sampler older posts home subscribe to posts atom