New

Not new to Chatelaines, I discovered them in 2004, but new to this blog.  Thank you to Joyce for hosting.  As I said, I discovered Chatelaines back in 2004 and it was addiction love at first sight.  My first purchase was the then Mystery VIII which is now Evening in the Park and I haven't looked back and I haven't even started finished Evening in the Park either.  I do have some finishes though, two large mandalas:


Caribbean Mandala
Stitched on Wichelt's African Daisy with recommended threads and beads.

 and

Egyptian Mandala
Stitched on Light Sand Belfast with recommended fiber and beads

One sampler:


Sampler Mystery IV
Stitched on Black Belfast with recommended fibers and beads

Vintage Christmas


Vintage Christmas as kitted by European Cross Stitch

Lots of smalls:

These are all stitched on Silkweaver's fabrics, I don't remember the names, with the recommended fibers and beads.


Mini Mandala Mystery I



Mini Mandala Mystery II



Mini Mandala Mystery III



Mini Mandala Mystery IV



Mini Mandala Mystery V

Mini Mandala Mystery VI

Rather than making this a crazy long post, if you'd like to see photos of my ridiculously huge number of  WIPs,  I have a page on my blog at http://yellowflowermeadow.blogspot.com/p/chatelaine-wips.html.

I am looking forward to seeing every one's progress on their Chatelaines and hopefully not being too tempted by all the amazing stitching!!

Sarah's finishes

Sorry it's taken me so long to finally getting my finished Chatelaines posted here. WIPs will have to wait till another day.

Here's my very first Chatelaine. Celtic Maze Garden. This one is stitched using all the charted colors and is the piece that introduced me to all the variety of silk and overdyed colors that are out there. It's stitched on 32 ct Belfast Melinnium Blue. Sorry about the quality of the pics here, I pulled them from my weshots albulm. Better pics are on the Chatelaine BB.

Here's MM5 which seems to be the mini version of Celtic. It's stitched in the charted colors on 28 ct Monaco that I dyed a light blue.

Here's MM6 the Moonstone Garden. I converted the silks to HDF and it is stitched on 28 ct Black Monaco.

Autumn Watergarden. Stitched on 28 ct White Monaco in the charted colors.

The only other finish I've had is Caribbean and that has been posted here so I won't post that one again.