Some Borders and Leaves

I'm almost ready to put in the specialty stitches and the beads on this. I washed it and one of the colors bled, so I'll be washing it again to let that out of the fabric before putting those in. I should have this done in the coming week.

Diamond Ornament Completed

I managed to put this together into ornament form today, too. I think it came out pretty well. My husband says it's one we're keeping, that I'm not allowed to give it away. I think that means he likes it.

Another Ornament Complete

I got my first crazy quilt ornament done today! I'm feeling proud of myself because I'm mailing it out to an ornament exchange EARLY. Go me! This is the first of six I've started - the foundations are pieced on all the others. The exchange is made up of cross stitchers, so I hope this person likes getting something completely different. My husband took a picture of the back, too, so here it is. I think I need to add more decoration to the back on the next one. Oh, and it counts as number 14 of my project challenge!

Chessboard Framed

I finished this chessboard before I started the blog, so there aren't any work in progress pictures of it. My husband completed the frame last night. It took him so long because he did something special with it - it will drop into place as an insert on a table to make a game table. So the frame's in two pieces. I think he did a very good job.

Scaffolding

Dark, dark blue this week that added more to the scaffold of the little garden area. Like on all the Chatelaines, I feel I'm moving so slowly on this. I doubt I'll speed up, though, since I have so many other projects going. I still can't believe how many different blues are involved in this little area. Now, on to making more ornaments.

Ornament Abandoned

When I started this, I used a skein of a discontinued Vikki Clayton silk. I've realized now that I don't have enough to finish it in this color, so I'm abandoning this one and will use the fragment in a crazy quilt patch. I'll restart this in a new color with enough thread soon.

An Ornament Finish

You haven't seen this before because I started and finished the ornament all this week. See my next post as to why I had to abandon the red and white one. This was from the 2007 Just Cross Stitch ornament issue, and from a design company called Loopy Lou. I hadn't seen any of her designs before this. Being me, I changed the floss and the beads. I'll hopefully be mounting it into a real ornament today. It even counts toward my project challenge, being number thirteen!