Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Crazy #6 - Renoir

This is one of a series of octagons I previously purchased from Fireside Stitchery.  I finally got around to starting it as part of my Crazy January.  The full outline is done, so you can see that when I get back to this, it'll be a fairly quick and easy stitch.

Founded

I have the foundation of the central building done in the bottom now, and some backstitching on the side.  Another part is definitely taking shape.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Crazy #5- European Fountain

This was a small kit I bought while in France a few years ago.  I pulled it out and stitched it in a few days for the Crazy January Challenge.  It was great to get one done!

Getting Things DONE

Just after the beginning of the year, I looked at the stuff in my stitch closet and saw a huge pile of things that were stitched but not finished.  I decided it was time to buckle down and get things done.  This is the first I picked - Jubilation.  It's now an ornament.

Monday, January 16, 2012

Back to Leaves

Time to get working on the leaves again.  I ended up frogging some on the left due to a counting error, and added a spine to the right leaf.

Crazy Start #3

I started my Take a Stitch Tuesday sampler on the third.  The first stitch was fly stitches, so I made these little square fly stitch motifs.  Each Tuesday Sharon Boggon adds a new stitch to experiment with.  It's informal, so there's always an opportunity to jump in!

Lauguishing

I feel like I'm going so slowly on this project!  I know that when I took it back up, I hadn't even started the door, and I've done at least three inches across since then.  It's still really dragging to me.