Ooooh, I just love this!
venetian opulence
I haven’t been into the new designs by Mirabilia, there hasn’t beeen anything for a while that I’d like to stitch but this is just stunning! I must have this. It’s also nice that it doesn’t call for an x amount of variegated silk threads which are expensive. I don’t mind paying for the beads, treasures and metallic threads but if you add silk threads it can get quite pricey. Now I must try to finish one of my Mirabilia wip’s so I can start a new one…
I have finished the first page of Running with the Wind and it’s starting to look quite nice. The colours are too bright on the pic, it’s just impossible to take good photos with my camera.
So far it’s all just background but soon there should be something else to see too. I’m looking forwars to getting to the sparkly areas of the chart since there was no sparkle on this page.
Here’s my longest ever wip, I have been working on this for 3 or 4 years now… it’s not difficult to stitch but it annoys me that it’s almost exclusively half cross stitch. What’s the point in that? I might as well be doing needlepoint. Well, there’s not much left anymore but I just can’t get it done as I don’t enjoy it.
And then some free stuff you can find on the internet, which I think is great. It’s so generous of the designers to offer free charts. This is my BOINK (Book of Ink Circles by Tracy Horner). All the parts are not released yet but I don’t think I can catch up anymore. Oops, the pic was a bit blurry. I have changed the colours on the block in the upper right corner, there was some black colour used and it looked too dark to me so I switched it to dark blue. This is on 28 ct Quaker.
I also started the Spanish Sampler by Reflets de Soie but I only work on it from time to time when I feel like doing something different. This is on white 36 ct linen and I’m using a Dinky Dyes silk thread called Whitsundays.
There is a part in the middle that you can personalize with a name or anything you like. Looking at the colour I chose this would make a pretty birth sampler but I’m not sure if any of my friends would appreciate this kind of stitching… I have done birth samplers with angels or cute teddy bears and stuff like that, those went down really well but I don’t know if anyone would like this. Oh well, maybe I will come up with other ideas along the way. This won’t be finished anytime soon.
I should do a birth sampler for a friend’s son, he is already 1 and half years old. I made one for his big brother so my friend is waiting for me to make another one too. When I made the first one I didn’t know that I won’t be able to have kids myself, now that I know it’s just painful to stitch designs with babies etc. I stitched Angel of the Sea by Lavender and Lace for the older boy, so I guess I should do something similar for the younger one too. I even thought of turning the Mirabilia’s Archangel into a birth sampler by adding names and dates etc. on the scroll that he’s holding, but I really want to keep that one for myself. I really wish I had chosen something smaller for his big brother but then again, I didn’t expect them to have another baby so soon. Now if I stitch a huge angel design again they will probably have a third one, LOL!
I received a lovely package from Joanna (Maja71) in Poland. Thank you so much Joanna! I absolutely love everything you sent to me and the box is so beautiful too.
The magazine has lovely Christmas designs. I’m going to try some ornaments on plastic canvas, they are so cute and would make lovely decorations for our tree next year. We won’t have a tree this year because our younger dog is just 7 months and he would be all over it. Here’ s a pic from the magazine:
I like the Christmas tree and the snowman. I’ve never stitched on plastic canvas before so it should be interesting. Here’s another lovely design I’d like to start soon, I have a dark blue fabric which I think would be perfect for this:
I haven’t sent my exchange package yet, I have finished stitching the small stitching, LOL but I still need to finish it into what it’ s going to be… sorry, no details.
I have been buying some cross stitch kits from ebay and from a finnish online auction site. Many of these are discontinued.
Yes, you can see my cat’s paws on the second pic.. I have one more kit on it’s way. I have started the cat, I had a piece of white 32 ct linen which I’m using instead of the aida. The kit was made in 1991! It was unopened too. I love the things you can find on ebay, but was also shocked buy the amount of cheap chinese copies etc.
I have also started an owl design from a book by Jayne Netley Mayhew. I love the design but the chart is coloured and it’ s a bit difficult to follow, I usually make a working copy and mark off my stitches but this one doesn’t have symbols for all the colours so I can’t make a working copy. The first page of Running with the Wind by HAED is also done so I guess I did do some stitching while I was ill even though I thought I got nothing done.
I had to quit the hormonal medication, it was unsuitable for me and now I’m off to some blood tests on Monday. Hopefully things will improve soon.
