Made for Ginny

Since she got it yesterday, I'm able to post pictures of the temari I made for Ginny in the Lunar New Year GITS.  It's one of lunar new year colors - red, gold, white and green.  The red isn't Christmas or bright red like usual, though.  I used Claret Watercolours from Caron.  I think it came out pretty well, and she says she likes it along with my explanation of the symbology I used.

A New and Mottled Heart

I'm stitching another heart for Hilfe fuer Kranke Kinder.  This one's by Asya, who's six.  His is rather colorful and with interlacing colors.

My First

I now own my first temari made by someone else.  I LOVE it!  It was made by Ginny in New York, and I got it because I participated in the Lunar New Year Great International Temari Swap in the TemariKai Yahoo group.  She was my partner.  I normally hate orange, but this just glows and it's sooooo pretty in person!  I'll treasure it always.  It also gives me reason to participate in more swaps of temari.

Ginny also sent me a temari-themed badge holder and a pen with Temari is a Ball on it.  They're so cute, and since I now have to wear a badge every so often, I'll use the holder.  Thank you Ginny, you've made my first temari swap so much fun, despite my anxiety about not being good enough.

Shuttering Up

This week it was the middle shutter, all green.  I put in three needlesful in two colors.  The break from just earth tones is kind of nice.

Still Crossing

I haven't broken down and done any of the specialty stitches yet.  The skeleton for them out of cross stitches is coming along pretty well, at least.

Still No Purple

More done on the piece, but no purple.  I added a lot of light green, though.

Asian Round Robin - Nicki's Block

Here's Nicki's block before I worked on it.  As you can see, I was the first!  I also decided not to do the obvious fan or geisha - to leave them for someone else.

And here's a picture after what I've done.  I made rickshaw wheels in the right upper corner, added a Buddha medallion, did some seams, and also did some maple leaves.  I hope she likes it.