Angel of Cross Stitch

The first (alphabetically) of my 30+ Stitch Maynia pieces was back in the hoop yesterday! I was excited to get to work on Angel of Cross Stitch by Joan Elliott again.

The last time I worked on her, I didn't get very far in my start. I made a goal to try to finish all the white in her skirt on the page I was working on, since it would give a good guide for the skirt details and moving beyond it, and I succeeded! Here is where I stopped yesterday:

Yay! It's very difficult to tell in this picture, but I'm doing this on 28 Jobelan in Seafoam from Hand Dyed Fabrics By Stephanie, which is a beautiful, subtle green color which is just lovely. It's just hard to capture it in a picture!

Until next time!
~Katy

Stitch Maynia - Angel of Cross Stitch and Cinderella

I'm now officially in the second half of Stitch Maynia! Because I have more projects to start than days left in the month, I tackled two Joan Elliott projects yesterday. The first was Angel of Cross Stitch.

This is a piece I have wanted to work on for awhile! It was designed using ALL 391 DMC colors available at the time - both a dream and a curse all in one! I know I don't have all of the colors in my stash, but I'm waiting until I get to a color I'm missing before buying it - it was easier than going through all of my boxes of floss, both bobbinated and not, to do inventory! Here is where I got to yesterday:

Despite taking this picture in natural light, it does not do the beautiful fabric justice. I'm doing this on 28 Jobelan in Seafoam from Hand Dyed Fabrics By Stephanie. It's a beautiful pale green that I think will work perfectly for this, but it keeps coming out blue in pictures. Oh well!

The second piece I worked on was the third of the Princess series, Cinderella.

I've already started the other two in this series (Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty), so it makes sense to start the third! Joan has another set of Cinderella patterns that I want to get and do eventually, but this one is just beautiful. Here is where I got to yesterday before my elbow and shoulder decided I was done stitching for the day:

I'm doing her on 28 Jobelan in Lady of the Lake, also by Hand Dyed Fabrics By Stephanie. I had used this fabric on a start for another project awhile ago that ended up being scrapped, but I saved the fabric because it's just too beautiful to pass up, hence the larger holes in some of the picture. They'll get covered up and evened out, though, as I stitch - what I stitched so far already covers some of it!

18 projects started, 17 to go!

Until next time!
~Katy