Most of my pieces are brightly colored pieces, which I love, but there is something very soothing about the colors of this piece that just made my needle fly yesterday:
It's exciting to see the domes beginning to form!
Until next time!
~Katy
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Showing posts with label Heritage Crafts. Show all posts
Monday, March 30, 2015
St. Peter's
Yesterday was just a great day. Church and brunch in the morning, then a nice nap, and then while hubby went out for a bike ride as part of his Iron Man training and the kids played upstairs, I put some good, quality time in on St. Peter's.
Most of my pieces are brightly colored pieces, which I love, but there is something very soothing about the colors of this piece that just made my needle fly yesterday:
It's exciting to see the domes beginning to form!
Until next time!
~Katy
Most of my pieces are brightly colored pieces, which I love, but there is something very soothing about the colors of this piece that just made my needle fly yesterday:
It's exciting to see the domes beginning to form!
Until next time!
~Katy
Saturday, March 7, 2015
St. Peter's
How's this for Texas weather? Yesterday my children were bundled up to go run around in the five inches of snow in the backyard. Today, I wore a t-shirt outside while running around to pick up the kids from school. Gotta love the bipolar nature of Texas weather!
Last night I put a few stitches into St. Peter's.
I wasn't able to sit down and stitch until late, so I didn't get much in, but I did work in enough stitches to cover the full width of the piece now.
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Though really, this isn't that wide of a piece!
Today was the last day of school before Spring Break, and my kids already have a list of things they want to do while they're off school for the next nine days. I'm exhausted already thinking about it, but one of the items on the list is rearranging my daughter's room so I can take some of the things stored in my craft room and move them to her room, like a desk, some art supplies, etc. This will move me one step closer to getting my craft room cleared out so I can build it exactly as I want! I've been doing lots of exploring on Pinterest for ideas on how to set up the room, including storage for floss, fabric, beads and more. I really am excited to get this room of mine done. It'll be the first time I've had a room that I can call completely and solely "mine" since I started sharing my bedroom when I was seven years old, and I'll be 35 in May! That's a long time!
Until next time!
~Katy
Last night I put a few stitches into St. Peter's.
I wasn't able to sit down and stitch until late, so I didn't get much in, but I did work in enough stitches to cover the full width of the piece now.
Though really, this isn't that wide of a piece!
Today was the last day of school before Spring Break, and my kids already have a list of things they want to do while they're off school for the next nine days. I'm exhausted already thinking about it, but one of the items on the list is rearranging my daughter's room so I can take some of the things stored in my craft room and move them to her room, like a desk, some art supplies, etc. This will move me one step closer to getting my craft room cleared out so I can build it exactly as I want! I've been doing lots of exploring on Pinterest for ideas on how to set up the room, including storage for floss, fabric, beads and more. I really am excited to get this room of mine done. It'll be the first time I've had a room that I can call completely and solely "mine" since I started sharing my bedroom when I was seven years old, and I'll be 35 in May! That's a long time!
Until next time!
~Katy
Friday, February 6, 2015
St. Peter's
This month marks ten years since my husband and I went to Italy before we started our family. I've already talked a lot about my love of Italy, and the piece I worked on last night is near and dear to my heart as a result.
St. Peter's Cathedral in Vatican City is one of my absolute favorite churches in the world. We are Roman Catholic, so there is the religious significance of course, but besides that, it's just a fantastic work of art. Between the architectural details and all of the paintings and sculptures and historically significant pieces in the actual Cathedral itself, it is one of the places that I think everyone should see at least once in their life. Between our semester in Rome and our trip a decade ago, I've spent many, many hours in it and have not yet seen it all.
One of the best parts of the Cathedral is the ability to climb to the top of the dome and look out over Rome. Now, the walk up is scary. Slanting walls, shaking ropes, knee high barriers, it is not for the faint of heart (or those scared of heights, as I am! But I've climbed it twice!) but it is beautiful! You won't get another view of Rome like the one you see up there!
Now, before I show you my progress from last night, I have to share a few pictures from our trip.
This is me at the 'first stop' on the walk up to the top of the dome. This is actually on top of the Cathedral itself, and there is a store up on the top run by a group of nuns. Many people stop at this point and don't keep going!
But here is the view from the top of the dome. It's just stunning, even on a cloudy day!
Then I have to share this picture because it's the closest picture I have to what this pattern will look like when it's done - I took this at the end of the Bridge of Angels, which is actually shown in the piece, but hey, I think this looks awfully familiar!
Here is my progress from last night, the real reason for this post!
There are lots of "squashed" crosses and even some crosses that are "off" of their main line to give a different perspective in this piece. It's colors are far more muted than most of my other pieces, but it made it a very relaxing stitch. I'm looking forward to this piece growing!
Until next time!
~Katy
St. Peter's Cathedral in Vatican City is one of my absolute favorite churches in the world. We are Roman Catholic, so there is the religious significance of course, but besides that, it's just a fantastic work of art. Between the architectural details and all of the paintings and sculptures and historically significant pieces in the actual Cathedral itself, it is one of the places that I think everyone should see at least once in their life. Between our semester in Rome and our trip a decade ago, I've spent many, many hours in it and have not yet seen it all.
One of the best parts of the Cathedral is the ability to climb to the top of the dome and look out over Rome. Now, the walk up is scary. Slanting walls, shaking ropes, knee high barriers, it is not for the faint of heart (or those scared of heights, as I am! But I've climbed it twice!) but it is beautiful! You won't get another view of Rome like the one you see up there!
Now, before I show you my progress from last night, I have to share a few pictures from our trip.
This is me at the 'first stop' on the walk up to the top of the dome. This is actually on top of the Cathedral itself, and there is a store up on the top run by a group of nuns. Many people stop at this point and don't keep going!
But here is the view from the top of the dome. It's just stunning, even on a cloudy day!
Then I have to share this picture because it's the closest picture I have to what this pattern will look like when it's done - I took this at the end of the Bridge of Angels, which is actually shown in the piece, but hey, I think this looks awfully familiar!
Here is my progress from last night, the real reason for this post!
There are lots of "squashed" crosses and even some crosses that are "off" of their main line to give a different perspective in this piece. It's colors are far more muted than most of my other pieces, but it made it a very relaxing stitch. I'm looking forward to this piece growing!
Until next time!
~Katy
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Crazy January Challenge - Weekend Edition
Tonight is a two for one! I didn't get a chance to post my minimal progress from yesterday's new start, so tonight I'm sharing both Day Twelve and Day Thirteen!
For Day Twelve, I selected St. Peter's by John Clayton International by Heritage Stitchcraft. Adding to the Italian theme of my pieces shouldn't surprise any of my followers who have seen my work on Italian Vista or European Bistro, but this piece has a personal connection. When my husband and I were sophomores in college in the fall of 1999, we spent a semester in Rome with half of our class, and we also went back for a week in 2005 before we got pregnant with our first child. I absolutely adore Rome and would love to retire there, and St. Peter's Cathedral is my favorite place in the city. We are Roman Catholic, so of course St. Peter's has a religious significance for me, but it's just an amazingly gorgeous and inspirational place, regardless of your faith. It is humbling to walk into that Cathedral and see the work that was done by human hands, and I've actually walked to the top of the dome twice (an amazing feat for someone with an extreme fear of heights), and the view of Rome is breathtaking. So when I saw this piece, I knew I had to stitch it:
For a variety of reasons, including Girl Scout cookie season starting and going out to see Les Miserables (LOVED IT!), I didn't get much done yesterday:
But any progress is progress, right? I'll supplement this mini progress with a few other of my favorite pictures of the real St. Peter's. Forgive the scanned pictures from 1999 - no digital cameras when I went to Rome in college!\
Both the Sistine Chapel Ceiling and The Last Judgement pieces from HAED are in my "To Do Someday" pile...they may be additions for the 2014 CJC!
For today's project, I had a couple of firsts! My first Joan Elliott piece as well as my first time to work on the beautiful fabric from Hand Dyed Fabrics by Stephanie. Day Thirteen's project is Sweet Pea Fairy by Joan Elliott:
And here is today's progress:
I'm stitching this two over two on beautiful jobelan in Fairy Dance and my picture hardly does the fabric justice. I absolutely adore the colors already and working on the piece today was a pleasure. I have two more Joan Elliott pieces on Stephanie's fabrics to round out the CJC. If they're anything like this one, it's going to be a true pleasure to wrap up these first fifteen days of January!
Until next time!
~Katy
For Day Twelve, I selected St. Peter's by John Clayton International by Heritage Stitchcraft. Adding to the Italian theme of my pieces shouldn't surprise any of my followers who have seen my work on Italian Vista or European Bistro, but this piece has a personal connection. When my husband and I were sophomores in college in the fall of 1999, we spent a semester in Rome with half of our class, and we also went back for a week in 2005 before we got pregnant with our first child. I absolutely adore Rome and would love to retire there, and St. Peter's Cathedral is my favorite place in the city. We are Roman Catholic, so of course St. Peter's has a religious significance for me, but it's just an amazingly gorgeous and inspirational place, regardless of your faith. It is humbling to walk into that Cathedral and see the work that was done by human hands, and I've actually walked to the top of the dome twice (an amazing feat for someone with an extreme fear of heights), and the view of Rome is breathtaking. So when I saw this piece, I knew I had to stitch it:
For a variety of reasons, including Girl Scout cookie season starting and going out to see Les Miserables (LOVED IT!), I didn't get much done yesterday:
But any progress is progress, right? I'll supplement this mini progress with a few other of my favorite pictures of the real St. Peter's. Forgive the scanned pictures from 1999 - no digital cameras when I went to Rome in college!\
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| View of the Dome from the gardens of Vatican Museum - 1999 |
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| The Dome! 1999 |
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| View of Rome from the Dome - 1999 |
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| The Dome again - 2005 |
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| Me in front of the dome - 2005 |
For today's project, I had a couple of firsts! My first Joan Elliott piece as well as my first time to work on the beautiful fabric from Hand Dyed Fabrics by Stephanie. Day Thirteen's project is Sweet Pea Fairy by Joan Elliott:
And here is today's progress:
I'm stitching this two over two on beautiful jobelan in Fairy Dance and my picture hardly does the fabric justice. I absolutely adore the colors already and working on the piece today was a pleasure. I have two more Joan Elliott pieces on Stephanie's fabrics to round out the CJC. If they're anything like this one, it's going to be a true pleasure to wrap up these first fifteen days of January!
Until next time!
~Katy
Monday, August 6, 2012
More European Bistro
It's becoming a nightly routine. My husband and I put the kids to bed, I settle down with the Olympics on TV and stitching in hand and just have an enjoyable evening stitching and watching great performances. What am I going to do when the Olympics are over?? I'll find something to watch, I'm sure, haha!
I finished up the half stitches in this window and moved on to other colors. I was not a fan of the black half stitches by the time I was done with them - five threads per half stitch just is too much and made me feel like I was pulling a knot through the fabric each time. I like the effect though. My favorite part so far, though, is the cute little wine bottle that's on the bottom that will eventually be on the table......probably because I like my wine!
I am going to scan and print out my pattern for my WOCS birdhouse tomorrow and will likely pick that up to get it started tomorrow if I can. I'm also drooling over the selection at Heaven and Earth Designs, which is having a half off "Stash Enhancement" sale the rest of this week starting tomorrow. There are some absolutely stunning (and intimidating!) patterns at this site and I'm building up my wishlist. I may just have to indulge with a pattern or two with the prices half off!
I did have a nice piece of mail today waiting for me from 1-2-3 Stitch! today:
Sorry for the glare! I picked up the Halloween Time book from Stoney Creek because I've seen so many cute Halloween projects on various blogs. I've never really been big on stitching for Halloween in the past, but I think I may have been bitten by the bug! I also got the St. Peter's design from the John Clayton International Series by Heritage Crafts. I've been to Rome on two different occasions in my life, including an entire semester during my sophomore year of college. St. Peter's was one of my absolute favorite locations to visit and I love this pattern! Can't wait to start working on it!
Until next time!
~Katy
I finished up the half stitches in this window and moved on to other colors. I was not a fan of the black half stitches by the time I was done with them - five threads per half stitch just is too much and made me feel like I was pulling a knot through the fabric each time. I like the effect though. My favorite part so far, though, is the cute little wine bottle that's on the bottom that will eventually be on the table......probably because I like my wine!
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| As of 8/6/12 |
I did have a nice piece of mail today waiting for me from 1-2-3 Stitch! today:
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| Goodies! |
Until next time!
~Katy
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