Saturday, December 20, 2008

Beginning to Round the Corners


I finished off the Algerian eyes in the fleurs de lis and started the Jessicas. There are several at the bottom of each corner piece. Once I'm done with them, Part 2 will be officially stitched and Part 3 only has its specialty stitches.

Friday, December 19, 2008

One Corner Complete


Yay, you can see the four leaf corner now! I'm getting caught up on when I fell behind, and I corrected the right side error completely now.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Six Stars on Top


I finally finished the top row here. Those six stars were hard to do and took a lot of time for each because they got so thick it was hard to see the threads underneath the stitching. Anyway, the rest should go more quickly now (I hope!). There's really not that much more to do.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Rolling Along

A second gift temari here; the pattern on this one's called dogwood and I'd not done it before either. They're not that hard to do once you start, but I can tell I still need to cultivate patience in marking the balls to get them more even. This one also counts as a project finish.





Weaving a Diamond


This week's progress is really visible because it's a big woven diamond in the middle of the piece. The directions were a little weird, but I managed to follow thme and make it. It looks all glitzy in person.

Candy Cane Temari

The colors on this temari remind me of a candy cane. It was the first time I did this design, and I think it came out all right. The visible marking thread is actually glittery - white Hi-lights. I don't usually like this color combination, but my husband preferred red to the other color I offered him as an option. Oh, and it counts toward my project challenge!


Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Another Outline

Another building outline started this week. It's interesting to work through this and see it take shape with all the overdyed flosses. Each building is unique because of it.