Here’s a pic of my new start, The Fairy of Calling in Sick. It’s not much yet but I love stitching the letters, even though they have lots of different colours and it’s a bit fiddly.
And again, the picture is too dark. The fabric is antique white 20ct lugana and I’m stitching 2 over 1.
Yay! Now I just need to go figure out how to put this on my signature line on the HAED BB.
There is a sale on the HAED site so I treated myself to one of the charts I had on my wishlist. It’s Fairy of Calling in Sick by Jacqueline Collen-Tarrolly.
It’s a bit different from what I usually stitch, but I thought it’s so cute and funny. I actually call in sick quite often so I might as well have a fairy who does it for me!
I happened to have all the threads this chart calls for so I couldn’t resist starting it. I didn’t mean to start it when I bought the chart but I just can’t help myself. The background isn’t stitched so this shouldn’t take years to finish. I’m still going to start Wintry Walk Fae too when the threads and fabric arrive. I guess I just love having lots of WIP’s! Sometimes I have to put some of them aside simply because I don’t have enough time and I do like to finish something occasionally…
I have just finished Holly Angel!
I cheated a little and left off some of the black from both sides. I just didn’t want to stitch so much black. I’m so happy with how this turned out! I can’t wait to get her to the framers. That’s not going to happen soon though, we have almost 500 km to the nearest frameshop.
I have ordered the fabric and threads for Wintry Walk Fae! They should arrive next week and I hope I will have finished Holly Angel by then. It was a tough decision but I chose Wintry Walk Fae because it has so many lovely bright colours which I need after the blackness and paleness of Holly Angel, and I also love that little kitty in her basket! I have seen many Nadia Tate WIP’s on the HAED BB and they all seem to stitch up really beautifully.
I ordered some 20ct Cork linen, I’ve read that some people like it and others don’t but I wanted to give it a try because I love linen and 20 ct would be ideal for my HAED stitching. I have some 20ct lugana if the Cork linen doesn’t work out. I also have a piece of 22ct evenweave. That’s the smallest count I’m willing to stitch on because I like to stitch with 2 strands.
I put a few stitches on Chessie last night but there’s nothing much to show so no pic yet. I’m going to work on Chessie a bit more too when Holly is finished.
I’ve been stitching more background on Holly Angel. It stitches up quickly but it starts to be boring. Luckily I still have those little leaves to stitch if I need some variety.
My husband is not helping me at all by saying: “Wouldn’t it be easier to just do it on a black fabric instead of stitching all that black?” I have never stitched on black fabric and I didn’t think to start with a HAED. And he doesn’t stitch so what does he know?
I have also worked on my Mirabilias for a change. Here’s my start on Archangel, the fabric colour doesn’t show too well, it’s not that gray in real life:
And this is Mermaid of the Pearls on opal white 28ct Cashel:
I’m not sure yet what to do with this piece, it calls for so many beads it’s just insane. I might substitute metallic threads for some of those beads.
It was nice to stitch these, I could actually see some progress. The 28 count fabric feels strange though after stitching on smaller counts. Both of these fabrics were meant to be 32ct but I got sent the wrong count and was too lazy to send them back all the way to UK and then wait again to get the right ones. I don’t mind stitching on 28ct, it’s just that it uses more thread as the stitches are bigger. But hey, at least I won’t be having trouble getting those beads to fit!
I started this sampler a few months ago, it’s my first ever sampler. It’s called Willow Trees, the chart is by the City Stitcher. This has been so much fun to stitch and quite quick too. I don’t have much left, just another tree, another big letter in algerian eyelets and the bottom row which I have started from the left hand side.
It’s a very bad photo though… this is on white 32ct Zweigart linen with dcm threads. I also added 3 letters to the small alphabet, they are letters from the finnish alphabet.
And here’s my precious Holly Angel:
I was going to wait until I have Willow Trees finished before starting anything else, but I didn’t have a very good day today, had to stay home because I’m not feeling well ( I have endometriosis and I am in constant pain despite several operations and all sorts of painkillers) so I started something new to cheer myself up. I got this chart and all the materials from my sister Jaana, she had tried to stitch it but the fabric was linen and she found it too difficult for her as she hasn’t stithed so much.
I got everything from her, including the beads and kreinik’s. I changed the fabric though, I’m doing this on vintage Cashel (28ct) by Zweigart. It’s a nice very slightly mottled light beige fabric. I kept the Tumbleweed linen, I kind of like the colour, I think I will find something else to stitch on it. I seem to have misplaced one of those kreiniks, can’t find it anywhere, so I will have to order a new one. Now I’m off to do more stitching!
As I’m getting close to finishing my Holly Angel, I’ve been trying to decide which chart I’d like to start next. I have narrowed it down to these:
Wintry Walk Fae QS by Nadia Tate
Leopard Mermaid QS by Nadia Tate
Holly Mermaid QS by Ching-Chou Kuik
Luckily I still have time to think about it. These little ladies are all so pretty, how can I ever decide? I was also tempted by some full size HAED charts but I have started Chessie by Ash Evans just a little while ago and maybe I don’t want to have too many full size wip’s. There’s also my Autumn Cat (by Myrea Pettit) but I’m not actively working on it, our new puppy dog stole my threads for this project and chewed them useless. I need to make new thread cards and order some more DMC and I never get that done because I always have something else to stitch instead.
I have enjoyed reading other stitcher’s blogs, so I decided to start my own. My computer skills are rather limited but maybe I will learn how to do this.
Maybe I should write a brief introduction: I’m Anita, I’m 29 years old, married, no kids. We have 2 cats and 2 dogs. I live in a very small village in northern Finland and I work as a cook. Currently I’m working part-time because the winter months are quiet here, not many tourists are interested to see how it’s dark all day! But that’s ok with me, I get more time to stitch.
Now let’s see how I can add an image:
This is Holly Angel by Heaven and Earth designs, it’s on 18 ct aida. I have stitched some more of that dark background today so I guess I need to take a new pic. I had to go to work 2 hours too early today, I have 7 km to my workplace and I don’t have a driver’s licence so I take whatever ride I can get. I have a bicycle but the weather was SO cold this morning. Anyway, I got a nice amount of background done.
