So, as you can see, I made more progress on the Medieval Town Mandala than the Midi Mystery. I'm feeling all out of sorts partially because I've not made much progress on anything last week and this week. At least next week goes back to normal, I hope. I just hope I don't get sucked in on my jury duty the week after. That would be yet another week with nothing done!
As you can see, I made some, but not a lot of, progress on the panda last week. I haven't stitched on it at all since the photo on Saturday. I've been adding a new project to my list at Seminar - a beaded ribbon purse. The class ended this afternoon, and I got about a third of the way through the project ... so ... you get new photos next week.
I didn't get much done this week - had to do a lot of extra kid running around in preparation for going to Seminar today. BUT ... I did finish two things! The red circular thing is called Charm and it's done on Picture This Plus fabric. You haven't seen it before because it was my purse project - the one I work on when I'm waiting for something. I'll be putting a butterfly charm in the middle and finising it as an ornament in the next week after Seminar. The other is the Loretta Spears Florentine Fantasy. I must have miscounted on the hearts downwards when I did the red one first, since they crowd up against the flower too much. Oh well - my daughter likes it and it's DONE. Now she and her father will frame it.
My husband took a picture of the finished banner before I pop this in the mail tomorrow. Turned out pretty well, don't you think?
This picture doesn't show it, but I completed part one! All of it! The little itsy bitsy Rhodes stitches by the columns look really good - mainly, I think, because of the turquoise color in them. On the Medieval Town Mandala, I've got a good start on the corner triangles and will hopefully finish them this week, meaning I'll get part 3 of that done finally. At least every project I did this week showed lots of progress. I needed that.
Well, I have about half of section six done now, of the eight there are. It's getting there, but I don't think I'll finish it before I leave for Richmond on Sunday.It'll be close. Each time my daughter sees progress, she oooohs over it, which is a good thing. She's planning on helping her father design the frame and then painting it herself.
As you can see, I finally got some real gold on my real piece. It was really fussy to do. Just before I posted this, I finished the crescent moon area in gold kid too. Now on to learn something else new for this. I believe they want me to do the stems next. I'm finding this quick going when I do it so far, but not as quick as crewel. It's definitely another tool in my box, though. I could see some applications in regular counted stitch pieces.
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So, as you can see, I made more progress on the Medieval Town Mandala than the Midi Mystery. I'm feeling all out of sorts partially because I've not made much progress on anything last week and this week. At least next week goes back to normal, I hope. I just hope I don't get sucked in on my jury duty the week after. That would be yet another week with nothing done!
As you can see, I made some, but not a lot of, progress on the panda last week. I haven't stitched on it at all since the photo on Saturday. I've been adding a new project to my list at Seminar - a beaded ribbon purse. The class ended this afternoon, and I got about a third of the way through the project ... so ... you get new photos next week.
I didn't get much done this week - had to do a lot of extra kid running around in preparation for going to Seminar today. BUT ... I did finish two things! The red circular thing is called Charm and it's done on Picture This Plus fabric. You haven't seen it before because it was my purse project - the one I work on when I'm waiting for something. I'll be putting a butterfly charm in the middle and finising it as an ornament in the next week after Seminar. The other is the Loretta Spears Florentine Fantasy. I must have miscounted on the hearts downwards when I did the red one first, since they crowd up against the flower too much. Oh well - my daughter likes it and it's DONE. Now she and her father will frame it.
My husband took a picture of the finished banner before I pop this in the mail tomorrow. Turned out pretty well, don't you think?
This picture doesn't show it, but I completed part one! All of it! The little itsy bitsy Rhodes stitches by the columns look really good - mainly, I think, because of the turquoise color in them. On the Medieval Town Mandala, I've got a good start on the corner triangles and will hopefully finish them this week, meaning I'll get part 3 of that done finally. At least every project I did this week showed lots of progress. I needed that.
Well, I have about half of section six done now, of the eight there are. It's getting there, but I don't think I'll finish it before I leave for Richmond on Sunday.It'll be close. Each time my daughter sees progress, she oooohs over it, which is a good thing. She's planning on helping her father design the frame and then painting it herself.
As you can see, I finally got some real gold on my real piece. It was really fussy to do. Just before I posted this, I finished the crescent moon area in gold kid too. Now on to learn something else new for this. I believe they want me to do the stems next. I'm finding this quick going when I do it so far, but not as quick as crewel. It's definitely another tool in my box, though. I could see some applications in regular counted stitch pieces.
