Persephone - Update

I've been working on Persephone since Saturday and I'm absolutely loving it!!!! I had a bit of a hard time with the tent stitch at first (having never used it before) but now I've got myself into a rhythm of sorts and I'm getting quite into it. I'm extremely happy with the coverage (and the speed!) and even though there have been a fair few colour changes (there's 19 on the first half page and I've used 16 so far) I've plodded on and enjoyed seeing the subtle shading take shape.

I can't believe I'm nearly half way through the first page already and I still have over a week left on this rotation!!!

Here's my detailed progress:

5 hours

9 hours

12 hours

I'm off to bed now, and I'll be stitching some more tomorrow!

:o)

TTYL

Persephone Stash!!!

The rest of my threads for Persephone arrived yesterday, so I spent all evening winding bobbins. I've double checked the coverage using 2 over 1 tent stitch and it looks fine, so that's what I'm going with. I'm starting her just shortly after posting this, so watch this space!!!

Here's the stash:

 

 

 

I'm so excited!!!


TTYL

Winter's Majesty Update

I've not managed to get an amazing amount done on this since the last update, but I am most definitely getting there with her. Nearly half way through now, and hopefully when she comes on rotation again (which should be two weeks unless I decide to do Endless) I'll finish off this section and start on the next half!

Here's how she's looking now:

 

TTYL

It's A Doozy!

Today has been a mad, crazy day. Hubby did his back in cleaning up yesterday, and thought that it would be better by morning. Wrong. He could hardly move when he woke up, so we went on a trip to the doctors surgery with two kids in tow. He's pulled something in his back which could take weeks to right itself. So it's off work for him, and lots of running round for me. Which is something I could do without (seeing as how I'm not in that good nick myself) still, this sort of stuff happens, and that's really all there is to it.

I've not done much stitching, though I did do some on Majesty, but my hands are seriously giving me grief and my fingers are badly swollen. Top that all off with a terribly swollen ankle and aching hips and I've had a doozy of a day.

On a good note, 30 skeins arrived this morning, so I'm a little closer to getting all the stash for Persephone. Hopefully the other 100 will come with the postie tomorrow.

I'm going to try and do some more of Majesty tomorrow - provided I don't get over excited if the rest of my threads arrive and start stitching Persephone straight away - which I might very well be tempted to do.

I've also got to finish the other side of my first - and what I expect will be the smallest - biscornu I've ever done (20 x 20 stitches) for an exchange at CSF.

Tomorrow is going to be so fun.

TTYL

Update

I haven't done much stitching today, though I have done a little on Winter's Majesty. I will post progress pictures on Friday because by then, hopefully, the threads for Persephone will have arrived and I will have started stitching.

I did have a lovely evening with friends and have managed to get my soon-to-be sister-in-law stitching again after ten years - having given her a Tatty Teddy chart for her birthday:



She's really enjoying it, which I'm glad of, and is nearly half way through, which is great.

I'm really chuffed that she's got back into it after so long.

My material for Persephone arrived this morning, and I'm hoping my first 100 threads will arrive tomorrow (there's 88 colours, but 132 threads required) so I can make a start!

I'm in quite a cheery mood.

TTYL

HAED - Persephone

I've not done much stitching tonight, as I had my friends over for a birthday bash (she loved her card!) But I did go browsing on the HAED site and found my latest stitch there. I've loved this image ever since it appeared on Marta Dahlig's DeviantArt Page , it's called Persephone.

In May, I emailed Michele at Heaven & Earth asking if it was going to be charted, and she said it was expected some time in June. Lo and behold, what should I find today while browsing but this gorgeous design that I promptly added to my shopping cart! I've got my floss list ready and material on order (I'm doing it on 25 count lugana evenweave in ivory) and I just have to wait for it to arrive and then I'll be making a start.  It's a whopping 16" x 24" but it'll be so worth it. And I know just where it's going to go in my front room. I can't wait to start. Another piece added to my rotation!

Here she is in all her glorious beauty:

I'm so excited it's ridiculous, but I've loved her forever, and I can't wait to stitch her....

TTYL

Majesty, Majesty

I think I've done fairly well with stitching this week, especially since I've been having issues with my fingers swelling and whatnot, so I'm happy with how much progress I've made. After some advice given to me earlier this week, I decided to wash the project before I carried on with it, even though I'd been stitching bits and pieces since the weekend. I was so worried about rubbing the dirt in, but now, I'm quite chuffed with it. It's still not amazingly clean, but will most certainly do until it's done and I wash it through with liquid detergent.

I'll be working on Majesty, along with some charity cards for CSF for the next week or so, and then it'll be back to Endless. I'm hoping to switch things up a bit with a few more designs I've seen and want, or have and am determined to do, and I really have to sort out my charts, but I need folders and plastic wallets and lots of labels before I do that. And the time. And the inclination. I'll get there in the end!!!!

Here's my progress:

 

 

Thanks for all your comments, and thank you to those of you who have started following my mad ramblings!

TTYL.

Birthday Business

I've been fairly busy since Monday night - busy stitching! I've done some more Winter's Majesty, and also managed to stitch up a little birthday card. I'm posting them separately because of my tags system (yes, I'm really that OCD)

 

Considering it's one of the first "fancy" ones I've done (I usually do ones with aperture frames, so there's no need to worry about messy back/attaching things and whatnot)I think it's rather good!!!

TTYL