The Happy Couple

Announcing the Happy Couple!

(Part of) Flight of Fancy
John Patience
HAED

Stitched on 25 count wedgewood lugana 1 x 1.  I'm not sure how I will finish it yet, but I'm thinking of having it done as a flat fold.

I also finished the posies.

And I finished the first column of pages on my girl.

I've two new starts, one HAED QS and a quilt sampler piece for my mom.  I'm hoping to get some serious stitching in today, but first I must manage to tear myself away from this computer!

Happy Stitching!

Tamara

Whew, It's a Long One.

And another month disappears.  But there is progress.  Unfortunately, there has also been a bad case of startitis as well.

I have a finish, two actually, one for me I finished in Dec or Jan and one for a gift for my Mom.  I just gave it to her for Mother's Day so I can show them off now.  Blackberry Lane Designs Tools of the Trade V.

Nothing actually finished this month, but a couple of things close.  First is the Summer Wings Humbug by Just Nan.  All that is left is to put on the beads and the backstitched border and put it together.  It's currently in limbo now because I just don't want to pick it up.

Then there is Violet Posies over one on 28 ct.  It's over half done.

I'm 1/3 done with the current page on my girl.

There was a 50% off sale at HAED.  I got a few charts:

Mini The Witching Hour
Lisa Parker

Mini Evergreen
Tracy Butler

QS Little Flutterby
Jennifer Nilsson

QS Flight of Fancy
John Patience

I'm only doing the grasshopper and ladybug of the Flight of Fancy and started it as soon as I ordered some fabric.

And I CANNOT wait to get started on Little Flutterby!  She is so stinking cute!  I will finish the happy couple first, though.  It's a good thing they are stitching up quickly (for a HAED).

I've probably forgotten something, but I can't remember what.  Serves me right for not doing this weekly like I used to!

Thank you for your comments!  I do appreciate them, although I know I am the worst for responding.  I'm not usually signed in when I read blogs (which I used to do at work, but computer use has been curtailed there) so I am also bad about leaving comments.  In fact, I've gotten bad about reading blogs as that was how I passed the slow time at work, but there is no slow time to fill at home, so I tend to avoid the computer as much as possible, which is why there are fewer blog posts, too.  Vicious cycle.  And my gmail is not currently my primary email so I never check it either.  I really should not be allowed to have a computer license!  But I do love this community and I will continue to share and hopefully inspire.  Maybe I can help your slow day go a little quicker.  :D

Happy Stitching!
Tamara

Well, Flu.

Well, this year certainly is going by in a flash.  Not only is it the busiest time of year at work, which often leaves me too tired to stitch much, but I have been sick for the entire month of March and the end of February.  First, it was a cold or sinus infection something or other.  I was finally getting rid of that when I fell ill with the flu.  And what a nasty flu bug it is this year!!  I ended up with a lot of inflammation in my ribs and was in quite a bit of pain for almost two weeks, and that was in addition to the first week of the actual flu. I'm finally feeling improvement with that, but still sore and tender, especially if I do too much.  Didn't get much stitching, or anything else at all, done since any movement was a new experience in pain.  Just lay on the couch with my chest packed in ice.  Such a shame to have had all that time off work and not be able to have any stitching to show for it!  Easter Sunday I resolved to stitch if it killed me!

I had finished a page on my Dress in February, I think:

I am already halfway through the next page.  Then it's one more full page and a half page and I will be at the bottom!  My goal is to finish this column of pages by the end of this year.  So, what amounts to 2 full pages and 9 months.  Definitely doable.  Provided I don't get distracted.  Sooooo many wonderful new designs out this spring!  Sooooo many wonderful old designs in my stash!  Soooooo much temptation!  I'm doomed.

With any luck, I'll be back by the end of April with another page finish.  Fingers crossed!

Happy Stitching!
Tamara

Halloween Quadrielle

Another finish put together:

Halloween Quadrielle by The Sweetheart Tree.  Unfortunately, this is the only productive stitching related thing I've done in the past two days off!

Happy Stitching!

Tamara

Finishing Foibles

Over the past two weeks, I have finished some finishes!

This one is ready this morning, just in time for the big flight tonight.

Gingerbread Reindeer Mouse
Just Nan

A pillow ornament:

Taken from
Christmas Cross Stitch Favorites Magazine
Xmas 2015

And two flat finishes (my first):

On Left, Bliss by Seba Designs
On Right, Poor Jack by Just Nan

I haven't been working on my Dress of Day Dreams, but here is the last picture I took:

Besides getting the mouse put together and writing this blog, it doesn't look as though I will be getting much more done before going back to work on Saturday.  I'm hoping for a stitching marathon over New Year's, though!  Wishing everyone a peaceful holiday!

Merry Christmas!

Tamara

Plugging Along

I don't know how it is I seem to have so many fewer hours in the days anymore.  Since I last was here, I have, I think, finished a pair of socks and have a half pair done.  I started a shawl last month, but the yarn color was knitting up hideously.  It was bad.  So it took me a week or so to settle on a new pattern.  Now I'm just doing a simple feather and fan scarf and it is looking slightly better.  It was originally intended to be a gift, but it is not what I had in mind color-wise, so we'll see.  However, it seems I have set it aside again to stitch.  Not as much progress on that as I would have liked in the past month.  My vacation last month consisted of me trying to kill myself cleaning the house.  So, in the evenings I was too tired to do much of anything.  I've just hit the halfway point on the current page.

There's only two and a half pages left in this column!  Maybe I can finish those by the end of 2016?  Probably wishful thinking.  And there are so many new lovely designs out this year!  It's so hard to be monogamous!

I haven't given up on the blogging, even if I have been scarce, I just haven't had the inclination to be on the computer much and I haven't had anything worth sharing for updates on projects.  I'm sure the cycle will come round again as it usually does.  Until then,

Happy Stitching!
Tamara

Time Sure Does Fly!

I haven't been really feeling like being on the computer any more than absolutely necessary, so please forgive my long absence.  I've set aside the little stitches for my HAED's again.  Hmmmm....I think I left a needle roll 80% done, just have to put on beads and put together.  Maybe I'll get back to it eventually, lol.

I picked up my Dress of Daydreams again, finally.  I also tried out parking my threads.  It helped tremendously with the confetti!  Since finishing this page, I seem to have lost my stitching mojo, though.  This is 11 pages completed now.

I don't remember if I put a progress pic of Curl Up or not, so here it is.

And two other finishes that I can't remember if I posted or not,  Jo's Jewels by Seba Designs and Poor Jack by Just Nan.

So, there's my last 3 or so months of stitching progress (well, except for that needle roll, which I'm too lazy to go upstairs and get to photograph).  I now have more of an inclination to knit socks and finished up a pair that had been on the needles for months:

Premier Yarns Wool Free Sock
Grand Canyon Colorway

I'm already halfway through the next pair and hope to have those finished in the next week or two.

Happy Stitching!
Tamara