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Sunday, June 5, 2016

June?!?

June?  I seem to have lost May somewhere.  If you see it, please let it know I'm looking for it.  Those two weeks that I thought would interrupt my stitching actually threw my entire life schedule off and I am just now getting back to it.  That and the weather turned nice, so the siren call of reading on the deck was difficult to ignore.

I did get some stitching done but that darn deck and all those books slowed me down considerably.  Before I get to the stitching,  Secret Victorian Garden came home from the framer yesterday.  I am thrilled with it:


The outer mat is a bit lighter than the photo shows and has a bit of texture to it.  The frame was a wonderful find.  Face on it has a beading detail that adds a bit of texture and color, but edge on,


there is an echo of the outer boarder.  Just a little unexpected extra. 

I also did some stash shopping.  Yes, me.  I know that isn't a common statement but I could not resist this:


I want to stitch EVERY design in this booklet.  I was first attracted to the dove and house in the upper right corner, but when I read that three out of print designs, Christmas Garden, Tis the Season and Blessings be Thine, were also included (Blessing be Thine had been on my wish list for years), I jumped right over and ordered it.  When I got it and looked at the rest, well, I fell hard and fast for all the other designs, so a very good purchase.

So, stitching...

Well, let's see...

Things are coming along on Christmas Soldiers and it is looking like a stocking:


I finished the flourish after I took this picture, so there is just a short stripe of ecru perle stitching and the toe left, oh and the name tag and some beads and a bit of metallic.  I would love to do a fancy finish like the cover model, but mine will be a bit plainer.

Staying with the Christmas theme, I finished the few stitches for a column finish and put a few stitches into a new column on Christmas Presence


I am looking forward to getting my rotation moving again so I can spend a bit more time with him.

I also had a column finish on Shakespearean Fantasy


All the stitches were in that green blob so I will be back to stitching black on Friday.

On It's About Time rather than stitch block by block, I did a modified cross country and carried on with a color down the column.



 I will have to see how many stitches I missed before I decide whether or not I will use this technique for an entire column.  This will be back on the frame Thursday evening, so hope to fill in lots of those empty spaces.

No classes or traveling this month, so hopefully I can really settle back into my stitching, and blog reading and writing.

9 comments:

Linda said...

Great progress on all of those wonderful pieces Susan. Your framed piece is gorgeous.

Linda

Robin in Virginia said...

Susan, your framed piece looks fabulous. Where did you find the frame? For losing the month of May, I think you made nice progress on your WIPs. Enjoy your evening!

Mouse said...

oooo nicely framed piece .... love the wee touches on it ... and May ... think it disappeared here too ... can't believe we are halfway through the year already ... great progress on the stitching front :) love mouse xxxx

Heather said...

Beautiful progress I'm glad you love your new stash! I'm really loving how Santa is turning out :)

Leonore Winterer said...

Life and good weather are getting all of us away from our stitching at times, but I'm glad to see you're back to it, at least a bit, and you made such nice progress on all your projects. That modified cross country approach/stitching one colour in a column at a time is what I do as well, and I think it works really well :) Hope it works out for you as well!
The frame on Victorian Garden looks great, and what a nice purchase! It's such fun to see you working on Christmas stuff all year round :D

Kerryp77 said...

Beautiful framing. It looks stunning. You've made great progress on the other projects too.

Joysze said...

Holy moly, Sue!!!!! How gorgeous is SVG??!!!! Wowzas!!! <3 <3 <3

Love how Christmas Soldier is looking. So whimsical. Santa is cuuuuute! LOVE the color of It's About Time. Greeeeeeeeeen and more greeeeeeeeeeens!!! What's not to love? :D

Needles Everywhere said...

Am so glad I found your blog. I, too, am a Chatelaine addict and hav eto really discipline myself to keep it in check. Your work is so lovely. I have resisted the Secret Vistorial Garden, but now I think I am inspired.

Suz said...

That framed piece is just beautiful, absolutely exquisite, and I should never be allowed within 100miles of your home, because I would see it and just move in onto a pallet beneath it.

The rest of your progress is lovely, too, but I'm especially excited to see more, more, more of the Shakespearean piece ;)