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!
