Category: Cross Stitch

Weekend update

I got home from California Friday night in time for Ryan and I to go out to dinner and relax for the night.  Ryan had to work all weekend so it was nice to have one night to relax since I had been gone all week.

Saturday I went shopping with some friends up at a cross stitch store in Grantham, NH which really got me inspired to stitch again.  I actually have been stitching a little lately, last weekend while recovering I stitched a small gift for someone for Christmas and I started a small kit I got at Celebrations for the plane ride to CA.  So while shopping I bought some fabric for a set of seasonal pieces I’ve been wanting to do for a while and when I got home I started on it.

Today I finished cleaning out the livingroom/diningroom area so we can start on the electrical work now.  All the trim and extra wood had to be moved to the basement and then I vacuumed and organized everything else.  As soon as Ryan has some free time we can get the holes drilled and run some wire.

Once it got dark I settled in to stitch for a few hours.  I’m working on Autumn in my Garden by Mirabilia (there is one for each season).  I’m stitching this on 40ct hand dyed linen.

Autumn in my Garden - started 11/20/2010 on 40 ct linen.

Now it’s off to bed and a short week at work.  Monday is a short day this week, I’m meeting up with my sister for lunch and then watching my nieces for the last time this semester.  I can’t wait to see the girls, it’s been too long!

Celebrations Weekend

This past weekend was the annual Celebrations of Needlework in Nashua.  I have been attending for 8 or 9 years now and always have a great time.  This year I decided to take some classes as I skipped it last year due to cost and interest.

The weekend began on Friday, I took the day off of work so I could take a class with my favorite teacher Jeannette Douglas.  I took Royalty ABC:

This class was great, some new stitches, time to stitch, great stories, everything I was expecting and hoping for. I made some good progress on the piece and always love stitching with silks!

Royalty ABC progress from class

Friday night my stitch group descended on my house for dinner with Vikki Clayton of Hand-Dyed Fibers. We ordered chinese and gabbed for a few hours.

Saturday it was back to Celebrations for my next class. This class was much more involved, it was a finishing class by Jackie du Plessis of It’s Finally Finished. It was called Chocolat and appealed to me for a number of reasons, not least of which was the wool bunny!

Chocolat

This piece I did not make much progress on in class, although I did start the hershey kiss (silver) stitching. However I worked on it during the flight to CA and made some good progress.

Chocolat progress

Saturday I had a sleepover with two of my friends staying over, we watched Jane Austen movies and stitched. I made some progress on My Stitching Treasures, taking the Royalty ABC class really got me interested in working on something of Jeannette’s.

Sunday a group of us took a Beginner Finishing course where basics for making ornaments and other small finished items from needlework was covered. This course was a great deal for your money and I started finishing a dragon ornament I stitched a few years ago.

All in all celebrations was great this year because of the classes. I’m hoping to finish something from this year but that’s always my goal 🙂

Stitch night

Tonight I got together with some friends after work at a coworker’s house.  The main goal was to hem a prom dress but I brought along some stitching and finally put a few more stitches in “My Stitching Treasures”.

It’s not much to show but I finished up the heart motif which is over one and then I started the Bargello block on the bottom left which goes much faster than over one stitching 🙂

Getting psyched for Celebrations this coming weekend!  3 full days of stitching stitching stitching!

A Stitching Weekend in Maine

I just got back from a 3 day vacation in Maine with Sarah.  The 3 days included the drive up and back which is significant (just over 4 hours) but we got a lot of stitching done.  We decided to continue the tradition of stitching on Celtic Banner which we started together in Maine 4 years ago.

Progress was definitely made!
This is the picture I took after stitching Sunday and Monday:Celtic Banner progress 1
And this is after stitching on Tuesday:
Celtic Banner progress 2
The piece is getting very long and it’s hard to show much of it since it is on scroll rods but it is 4 pages long and we are more than halfway through page 3!

While stitching we listened to Storm Glass by Maria V. Snyder (Glass series book 1).  This is the same author (and many of the same characters) as a long time favorite of ours the Study Series.  While the story was very interesting the reader was very distracting, mis-pronouncing almost every pronoun which was beyond frustrating.  I was however motivated to go back to the Study series directly after and I’m happily more than halfway done with the first book in that series again.