Bargello - Distillation Columns

Started Section C of Florentine Fantasy. Since this picture was taken Sunday night, I've added a third, red column. They remind me of distillation columns. My chemistry background is showing with that comment. I also filled in the inner part of the white column with red Rhodes stitches. The blue one will have white Rhodes, and the red column will contain blue Rhodes stitches. It's still going pretty quickly and on track for a finish in the relatively near future.

New Start - Panda Pals from Brittercup

Since I finished Crewel Confidence, it's time to start a new piece. This one's Panda Pals by Brittercup Designs. It calls for a lot of GAST, but I didn't have any in my stash and am substituting Needle Necessities overdyeds, which I do have. The black will be DMC. So, I started stitching yesterday before my husband took pictures and this made it in. So far I've only done one length of thread. I'm sure significant progress will be made by the end of the week. This project already has a home - it's being made for the mother of a friend. The mother has a whole panda room, so this will go in it well.

Purple Queen Framed

My husband's first framing job! He stretched the piece and the silk under it, made the frame, and picked out the mat, too! Then he put it together. I think he did a great job. This pattern is the White Queen GSS from the Embroiderers' Guild that I turned into a purple queen. It was my first project ever using drawn thread. I think it came out pretty well.

It's Done!

I spent most of yesterday's stitching time finishing this project, Crewel Confidence by Judy Jeroy. While I still feel crewel isn't my favorite thing, it's something I'll consider next time I see a really pretty pattern I want to do. I'm sure my critique will have a lot of things I've done wrong on it, but it was my first time transferring a pattern this way or doing a crewel piece at all in about twenty years. My husband will frame it when it gets back from its critique, and then we'll give it to someone. I just feel sooooo relieved it's done!

Bleu Normandie

This is my second Normandie, in the colors picked by my husband. Getting there on getting it done. It has one of the same problems the other one did - the lightest color fades into the fabric. Not too much to do on it. These are fairly quick. Maybe next week I'll actually have some things done!

Bargello Progress

It's not as far as I thought it would be when I posted last week. I took it to do in the car while I was waiting for my daughter to get out of school yesterday and completed the second section and started on the third. It shouldn't take too long to do, as long as I actually sit down and stitch. Life should be returning to somewhat normal next week, I hope. I really want to get this one finished before I go to the EGA national seminar.

The Chatelaines

I've managed to complete four of the butterflies and get the other four about halfway done this week. Hopefully I'll be able to start the gold border and the corner areas before the picture next week. Since it's rainy out, I'm hoping I'll be able to stitch more. On the Midi Mystery, I've made progress on all that Treasure Braid on the bottom. It gets annoying to work with since it twists so much. Maybe I'll be able to get to the black bottom this week before completing the Treasure Braid. Martina released a small project using the same threads as the Midi Mystery to the group this week. I might make a Christmas ornament out of it.