Alot has gone on

As you can see from the title alot has happened since I last posted. My kitten is growing and being a real monster. She just turned 12 weeks old this week.



I am getting all the stuff together slowly for the hospital. Most wont be packed till Tuesday night.

I did buy a laptop so that I can stay in touch with all my stitching friends and pass the time away alot faster than normal. I go in on Wednesday February 18 have the surgery on the 19 and hopefully come home the same day. We shall see. That is IF they docs listen to me which probably wont happen.

I have been busy stitching and finishing off stuff. I did the other Pointsettia Biscornu from the JCS Christmas Ornaments 2008 issue. Which I have to take a picture of so I can post that. I also finished off 7 angels and 3 diamonds. I have been working on a hardanger Angel which has taken me about 2 weeksish. I am not quite finished yet but I have not been working steady on it. When I do work on it I accomplish quite a bit in one sitting. I am hoping to have that finished by tomorrow.



I think that is all for now. I think I will go stitch some more.

Wren Song Design Update

Ok so here is the latest on the Wren Song Designs. 4 are done and 2 (one pattern) are left to do still. Maybe this week coming I will get them done. The pattern is called the Bridal Roses. They are not very big 3 inches finished actually. So I was talking with the owner of my LNS this week saying I wasn't sure how I was going to finish these off. They are supposed to be done as round ornaments. Apparently that is a very skilled task to be able to do. Sounds to fussy for me. So we decided I was going to get some cream to beige cardstocka nd make them into cards. I think that would be really neat. The actually pattern calls for the pink colours as seen in the top left hand corner but I decided to change them up a little. The last two I have to do will be the pinks (that are called for) for one of them and then the other will be various shades of purple. The first one took for ever to do but the other three worked up really quickly.

Today I spent time working on my Victoria Sampler Welcome Hearts Bellpull. I finished the petite blanket stitch a cross the top and put in the nun stitch. That took a bit of figuring out. I have started down the last side with the blanket stitching which I hope to finish tomorrow and start the cutting as well. I will attempt to do this on my own but if I run into troubles I have my class next weekend so I should be fine.

Yesterday I met a friend for coffee and while waiting for her I saw another lady who used to work at my LNS. We chatted for a bit and she said that she teaches classes and holds a stitching group at her place twice a month. She invited me to join them. She said the teacher that I am taking lessons from now comes and helps out. I am seriously thinking about joining. She told me to call anytime I had any questions, needed any help or just wanted to show her some of my work. I thought that was very nice of her. I might as the teacher next Saturday what the group is like then make my decision as to weather I will go or not. That would be twice a month and the other two weeks I would still go over to the LNS for "private" lessons.

Afew finishes

Well here is a picture of all 5 ornaments with the cutting and all the speciality stitches in them. The pattern is by Wren Song Designs. I think they are pretty neat. I have an order from my mother already for about a dozen. At first she said that she wanted all Ercu ones but then she saw the green one I did and now I am not sure what she wants.Here is the first one in green. I will be doing a whole set of 5 in this colour as well. It is DMC 504. I think I like the green better. BUT we shall see as I am doing a set in DMC 3753 and I will do a pink set. The only difference with the pink will be I am putting blue flowers in them. I am hoping each different colour set will have a different speciality stitch in them. The Ecru has Dove's Eyes.

The other little green things you see with the pink bars will be earrings. I have alot of interest in them already. That was my first pair I made. The blue verrigated was the second one but when I did the cutting there was a mistake. So I did it again and this time the lines didn't match up. I am sitting now taking it out.

Today I signed up for my Hardanger classes. I am now getting exicted about doing it. At first I wanted no part of it. I was showing the lady who owns the store what I hope to be able to do and she thinks I will do wonderfull in the class. She then proceded to tell me I was coming back Wednesday morning after the gym to be taught Greek Crosses. Between what she showes me and my 4 classes I should be off to the races and do what ever I want to.

This is one project I would like to eventually like to be able to do. I will with time.