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Sunday, February 10, 2013

TUSAL and Serengeti

First and foremost - WELCOME to my new followers!  Thank you all for taking the time to stop by and leave a comment.

It's TUSAL time! My photo isn't any better than last month's but I am surprised and pleased by how many new bits were added.


Chatelaine's Serengeti was on the frame last week.

Here's where it was when I started:



And here's where I finished up Friday night:
Chatelaine's Serengeti
Stitched on 32-count Summer Sky Jobelan with recommended fibers and beads
See all that blank space?  That will be filled with beads - lots and lots of beads and a few bicones.  So far there hasn't been an issue with the bead spacing as there sometimes is with 32-count fabric I'm hoping that since this isn't really a hand-dyed fabric, that the shrinkage that happens with them didn't happen with this but I have been looking at the pattern and trying to figure out which beads I could leave out if it becomes necessary.

Dimple Designs Twilight of the Tsars is on the frame this week.  I am down to mostly thread/blending filament symbols on this one so it will be slow going.  Not so much because of the number of stitches, but because I dislike stitching with blending filament so much that I tend to stitch slower or find other things to do.

15 comments:

Mii Stitch said...

HUUUGE progress on your Chatelaine's project!!! I can't wait to see all the beads :)

Mii Stitch said...

HUUUGE progress on your Chatelaine's project!!! I can't wait to see all the beads :)

Jan said...

Serengeti is beautiful. It's a good start. Looking forward to seeing this one come along.

Anonymous said...

You made fabulous progress on your Serengeti project. Good for you!

Robin in Virginia
rlbrowninva @ gmail.com

MarchAnn said...

Don't you love Chatelaine's I just signed up for the Moss Garden.

Catherine said...

Ooohhh.....that beading is beautiful ~ looking forward to seeing more!

Annie said...

Soooo lovely! Great progress.

Julie said...

Beautiful start.Look forward to seeing even more bling.

Nicola said...

What wonderful progress on your Chatelaine, it is looking stunning even thought here is more bling to add.

Melissa said...

Great progress on Serengeti!! It is beautiful of course, but I can't wait to see all of the beads :)

Siobhán said...

Wow, fantastic progress on your Serengeti! Good for you!

Dani - tkdchick said...

Those are all spectacular colours you've added to it!

Anonymous said...

Hello

Just found your lovely blog.
Your Serengeti is looking beautiful, the colours are very striking.
Happy weekend.

Anne said...

Oooh!! It's soo pretty Susan! I love Chatelaines!!

Claire said...

Hope you got some stitching done this weekend.x