Little by little!

I swear this goddess is doing a shoulder shrug at me!

 

"Yes, I know you don't want to have to backstitch me for the 8th time, but..."  (shrug).

"Yes, I know you want to get on with stitching the border but...." (shrug).

This final temple seems to be taking me a long time to get through, but I'm not going to skip forward and start the next part until I'm finished.  I'm NOT!  (Say it like you mean it!)
I just need to stitch in Athena's spear so that she can give me a sharp poke instead of giving me attitude! 

(It's a bad sign when you imagine your cross-stitch subjects talking to you, isn't it?!)

Slow progress!

Not a lot of progress this month.  I've managed to stitch a little more down the right side of the square... but clearly not concentrating very well because I've stitched the little over-one fish two threads further down than charted. 

And the four turquoise ...shells?  wheels?  Yup, managed to miscount the other side of the temple and stitched five instead of four.   You'd think with the light evenings I'd be able to make a better job of following a chart :( 

Some serious frogging to do before I go any further.  Hey ho.  Good job I liked this fish. 

Greek Mandala May update

I've not managed nearly as much this month as I would have liked.  Hopefully June will be better. 

  This is number 5 out of 8 goddesses of wisdom finished. 

 

Now I actually think Martina's sorted all the "wise" needed for this design, but I wouldn't mind if someone could introduce me to the goddess who protects us from frogs....?

Noob

Hi.  I'm Rebecca from the UK.  I've been drooling over the beautiful stitching on the blog from afar for a looooooong time, and the Stitching Bandits challenge has arrived at exactly the right time to give me a kick up the bum with my own Chatelaine stitching, so thanks to Joysze for letting me join in the fun! 

I'm picking up Greek Mandala after about 18 months



I've still got a long way to go! 

I've got Tuscany Town all done bar the border. 



This would actually be a much quicker finish...  If only I wasn't so easily distracted! 

I have the Stitching Leporello all stitched but not yet made up. 

And - here's the best bit - my DH made the mistake this week of saying "I can't help it if my hobby (photography) is more expensive than yours...".  Is it just me or does that sound like a dare?  I'm looking to my future and can see full kits for White Nights, Persian Iris, Moss Garden.... all silks, hand dyed fabbys, no subbing.... this could be fun!

Looking forward to watching all your lovely stitches grow.