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Archive for the ‘Works in Progress’ Category

June 27th, 2006

Finally. :)
I hadn’t been doing as much stitching, as it was making my eyes hurt. But now I have new lenses in my glasses, and the mad rush of many houseguests has calmed a bit. That means over the last couple of days I have had time to work on my needlecase! […]

By Deb -- 2 comments

June 6th, 2006

Needlecase- spiderwebs!

During the last few days that I’ve been working on Lorri’s Needlecase, I stitched my first ever Hardanger spiderwebs. They were a lot of fun, even though I seem to still have to learn the trick of getting them centered in the squares. Speaking of tricks, I’ve tried being extra slow and careful […]

By Deb -- 2 comments

May 30th, 2006

Blended Floss & Egyptian Sampler

I’ve stitched various projects in the past using single floss colors in the needle, and I have to say now that I’ve been working on Egyptian Sampler that I love the result you get using blended floss. It gives the work some depth and dimension, instead of being somewhat flat in feeling. As […]

By Deb -- 3 comments

May 28th, 2006

Sampler Border progress

Just a short note this morning. The last few days I’ve indulged in a frenzy of combining colors and stitching like mad, and what I have to show for it includes a slightly stiff arm and framing for border motifs across the top of the Egyptian Sampler. I am feeling rather clever for […]

By Deb -- 6 comments

May 25th, 2006

Cross stitch preparations

I thought I’d post a couple pics to show how I organize my bits & bobs for projects I’m working on.

I’m doing something new with Egyptian Sampler, because Teresa Wentzler uses so many blended colors. I bought some project cards, wrote the symbols and DMC floss numbers next to each hole, and then I […]

By Deb -- 3 comments

May 17th, 2006

Coffee cross stitch progress

It has been a while since I posted a WIP update, so here is where I’m at with “Coffee is Magic” currently. I was going to wait until I’d finished it, but I’m not so good at waiting ;)

I decided to use some DMC light effects ‘glow in the dark’ white in place of […]

By Deb -- 1 comment

May 12th, 2006

Hardanger in Action!

Last evening as I stitched, I actually remembered to take some pictures as I went along. First, I stitched the kloster blocks around the perimeter:

Next it was time to set scissor to cloth. This is as traumatizing to do as it is to see.

Pulling threads is the Moment of Truth- here are two […]

By Deb -- 5 comments

May 11th, 2006

needlework rotation revised

After a week or two of experimenting with my initial rotation, I’ve decided to scrap the “you must work on Project A on Monday” course of action. Embroidery, while I enjoy it, doesn’t satisfy the same creative addiction that cross stitch does. The “embroidery days” became “needlework avoidance days”. I don’t expect […]

By Deb -- 3 comments

May 9th, 2006

Stitching Wizard Robes!

I’ve finally made enough progress on ‘Coffee is Magic‘ to get a general “feel” for the piece. I like the ease of this piece. It’s fun, quick to stitch, and a break from keeping track of a lot of color changes or tricky new stitches. My only dilemna is whether to order […]

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May 8th, 2006

Needlecase update

I only did a bit of needlework this weekend, but what I did was a nice challenge. I stitched my first hardanger block Ever. It looks a bit mangled, what I would call “Charlie Brown”. I’m going to leave it as-is, so that some day when I can stitch beautiful hardanger in […]

By Deb -- 2 comments