Saturday, January 28, 2012

Crazy #15 - Blues in the Night

This is the beginning of a petite project from the Embroiderers' Guild of America.  It's a fairly complex needlepoint piece, and, of course, I'm not doing it in any of the original colors or threads.

Friday, January 27, 2012

TAST Week 3 - Feather Stitch

Some of the samples in Sharon's post for the feather stitch reminded me of the grape vines surrounding this city.  So, I made some!  Feather stitch and French knots.

Crazy #14- Tu Es Unique

This has been sitting in my stash since my last trip to France.  Time to get it started, especially since it's a pretty small design!

Difference in Speed

It looks like part six is going much faster than the second half of part five.  I'm thinking I should probably work more on five and less on six at this point....

Thursday, January 26, 2012

All The Way Across

I managed to get all the way across the width of the sampler.  Now to go back and fill in the bottoms of the swags.

Crazy #13- Mystery Brocante

I had meant to start this piece earlier.  It was a stitchalong offered by European Cross Stitch, but they didn't send the threads until the second shipment of the stitchalong due to backorders.... and it didn't arrive at all.  The mail ate it.  So I ordered a second set of threads and asked them to mail me the pattern piece I'd never gotten, and then Turkish Air decided that mail delivery to Chisinau wasn't going to happen.  This sneaked in on one of their infrequent small shipments toward the middle of January and I finally got to start stitching.  I like the colors with the fabric I picked, but I need to finish another large project before this one goes into the rotation.