Showing posts with label SAL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SAL. Show all posts

Thursday, 15 January 2015

Gifted Gorgeousness SAL 2015 January update

This is a new SAL hosted by Serendipitous Stitching which gives us the opportunity to blog about anything we've stitched which is or has elements of being a gift.  And as, in my experience stitchers are incredibly generous folk I anticipate that I will have no shortage of things to share.

As I'm participating in a few different SALs I think there may be duplication for which I apologise.

The main project I would like to show you is Christmas Village by Prairie Schooler which is almost finished.



By the time I do my Wipocalypse update at the beginning of February it will be finished so there will be a different photo.

This piece was gifted to me by a friend who had a "clear out" and passed me what she described as a "few cross stitch bits and pieces".  Actually there was a cornucopia of charts, threads, fabric, buttons and a small number of UFOs, this being one which I fell in love with and immediately set about completing.  It is stitched on antique white evenweave using DMC in a lovely set of colours - this was a large part of the appeal of the design for me.

My intention is to have it framed in time for display in December.



I also stitched a little birthday card as a gift for a friend who loves tea





It was a free kit from a long since discontinued magazine called Jane Greenoff's Cross Stitch.



And finally I am going to include one of my new starts in 2015 - Mirabilia's At The Met because 2 of the 4 Caron Waterlillies needed for this fabulous design were part of the gifted stash from the friend who had the "clear out"


I am stitching this as part of a SAL for Mirabilia stitchers and am really enjoying it.  I have stitched quite a few Mirabilias in the past but it's been a while since I tackled a larger design.   I was really sorry to put her down and move on to the next project in my rotation but she will be waiting for me next month.

Tuesday, 22 July 2014

Jane Austen SAL piece finished

Finished the border on the Jane Austen SAL piece yesterday evening.

The quote is from Emma


Thursday, 17 July 2014

Reverse stitching blues

Last night I was happily working on a Jane Austen Sampler SAL piece and was just about to start stitching the Z in the alphabet line when I realised that there was going to be a gap at the end of the row.  With trepidation I looked back and saw that I had missed the V.  So nothing for it but to "reverse stitch" which always seems to take longer than the original stitching.

I was not a happy bunny.

Here is the piece I was stitching on before I made the mistake




I didn't take a photo of the mistake but hope to be able to post an updated photo with all the letters soon.

The pattern was kindly provided on this blog where you can various versions

http://janeaustensal.blogspot.co.uk/