Snow Finished

SHE IS FINALLY DONE!!

Snow by Maxine Gadd (no background) charted by Heaven and Earth Designs. Fabric is by Chromatic Alchemy called Amortentia Opal Aida. Started on July 14 finished November 8. Even though it was a week after my deadline, the frame shop has not gotten a Christmas rush yet. So she will be done before Thanksgiving. Then, I can put her on the wall and enjoy her for a bit before having to wrap her up for my MIL. Was starting to wonder if I was ever going to finish. The wing just kept going and going. So happy with how she turned out.

Never, I repeat NEVER, was your hand dyed fabrics. I spritz mine with water to iron them. This is what happens:

Yes, that is dye on my ironing towel. Excess dye seeped out. Once, I made the mistake of washing hand dyed fabric. I almost had to throw the piece away because the dye got on the stitching. Quick thinking and lots of praying and I was able to work the piece so that it looked like it was supposed to be that way.

Now that she is done and at the frame shop I can clean my house. It is driving me crazy. The dogs keep bringing chunks of dirt in. Then I am going to bring out my Mirabilia UFO, and turn it back into a WIP.

Queen Mariposa

Day 15

Yesterday I felt like I got a lot stitched on Snow. Not sure if it is just because it was a patch all together, the darker color, or perhaps I actually did get a lot done.

Here is the before start picture.

And the end of day 15 picture.

This page I calculated to take ten days. But I have been working on the icicles that drop down from the page above. So, I am going to add an extra day to complete the page. Last night I realized that we are moving in less than 30 days. Starting to panic a little. There is so much to pack still. A lot of it I can't even pack until the day before. Off to pack up one of the game stations, games that go with it and more movies. Then back to stitching.

Finish Day 8

So far I have been able to keep up with at least 500 stitches a day. Each day you can see the changes. Trying to get ahead before we move. I'm thinking I will be unable to stitch while we are moving, even if it is just across town. This is stopping point for day 8.

Funny thing, I don't have any real photo editing programs. So, I load up the photos every 3-5 days and add the day number to them in paint. I don't really look at the photos very closely and go in the order they loaded from the drive. This time they loaded out of order. I didn't notice until started loading them to the Snow tab that day 6 was really day 8, day 7 was day 6, and day 8 was day 7. Needless to say I had to go back and correct it by making a big white block over my mistakes. Next time I will look more closely before adding the day to them.

Titania Queen of the Fairies

This is the first large cross stitching I have completed since I graduated high school. All my other cross stitching's were sold at auction. I never had one to keep for myself. This one I finished six years ago, but never had her framed. Now she is framed and ready to be placed on the wall.

This is also the first cross stitching I ever used beads or specialty threads in. I remember the sewing the wings and saying bad words about the thread. It was so fine and kept breaking every few stitches.