Friday, March 8, 2013

TGIF!

Thank goodness it's Friday! It's been a very long week and I am looking forward to the weekend! I have to say that this March Madness has actually been a blessing for me. My time to stitch has been sporadic, at best, and I don't feel bad about wasting time during a rotation week - I just am working on different pieces each day as I can!

I have two updates from this week to show, and both of the pieces are from Heaven and Earth Designs. The first is Flames of Desire by Lee Ann Seed!

Here she was before:

And here she is after a bit of stitching on Tuesday night!
As of 3/5/13
Then Thursday night found me working on Angel of Compassion by Selina Fenech, one of my CJC pieces!

Here she was before:

And after!
As of 3/7/13
Lots and lots and lots and LOTS of Kreinik #4 braid on these two pieces, that's for sure!

I'm hoping to spend some good quality time stitching this weekend - can't wait to show you what I get done!

Until next time!
~Katy

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

A Trip Through Italy

The past couple of days have been filled with trips through Italy!

On Sunday, I spent some time working on Italian Vista and went from this:

To this:

As of 3/3/1.3
And then yesterday, I worked on Tuscan Greeting from the CJC and went from this:

To this:
As of 3/4/13
I'm worried I might have miscounted on the inside portions of this and will need to do some frogging, but I was too tired last night and kept confusing myself, so I put it down and will look to see if I did indeed make a mistake or not the next time it comes up!

Until next time!
~Katy

Sunday, March 3, 2013

End of Rotation Week and Theme-a-licious


Sorry I've been a bad blogger the last few days - seasonal allergies are in full swing and I've been dealing with those most evenings, so even though I've been doing some stitching, I haven't felt up to posting before bed, so I have some catching up to do!

First, yesterday was the end of my rotation week on Mediterranean Flavors! Here was my progress from Thursday night:
As of 2/28/13
I didn't stitch at all on Friday after Girl Scouts because I was too tired, but I did work on this piece yesterday to round out the week!
Mediterranean Flavors - End of Rotation Week
As a reminder, this is there the piece was when I started working on it this week:
Start of Rotation Week
I'd say I made good progress, wouldn't you?

Thursday was also the due date for the Theme-a-licious report for February, so I'm a few days late. February's theme was:

Figural February

Who are the people in your neighborhood...your WIP neighborhood, that is? Give your people-populated projects some face time this month.

And as we saw during my mid-month report, I am definitely bending the rules to this one this month! Since my mid report, I've worked on Mediterranean Flavors, which will all be consumed by people, as well as European Bistro, which will be inhabited by people, and I bought a piece with people in it, so that counts, right?

March's theme I will be able to do much more appropriately, I think!

March Madness

Work on something different every day...it's madness...of the funnest possible kind.

This is a perfect day to start this rotation - I loved working on a different piece the first 15 days of January when I started the CJC, and with all of those pieces on my sidebar in my WIP pile, I have plenty to do! So let's see how this month goes!

Until next time!
~Katy

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Framing The Flavors

I got a bit more work done on Mediterranean Flavors today, including turning the bottom right corner of the red frame outline in the picture to help start establishing the boundaries of the piece!
As of 2/27/13
Sorry for the wrinkles! I had to move my hoop frame today (small frame for a small piece), and I do not iron pieces until they're completely finished, as I absolutely detest ironing and will only do it once for a piece!

Until next time!
~Katy

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

More Progress

Mediterranean Flavors is stitching up pretty quickly!
As of 2/26/13
I'm really enjoying this piece. I like the theme, the colors, and it's relatively simple in comparison to a lot of the charts I do. It's definitely been a nice change!

Until next time!
~Katy