Travelling Pattern Ready For Its New Home... Travelling Pattern Ready To Give Away!

Remember this great finish from last week?  Little House Needleworks Summer Garden, which is a travelling pattern!

Its Monday and it was time to pick the next stitcher.  Many thanks to my friends at random.org, that choice was made!  The next blogging stitcher is: Sally of Stitchyangel's Treasures!  I know this chart is sooo Sally's style as I've been reading her blog for a few years now.  I'm very happy to be sending it off to her!  This chart that came from France will be making its way back across the pond shortly this time to England!

A few days ago I finished up the other travelling pattern that I had in my possession!  This one came from Mouse in England!

Friends are Like Angels

Lizzie*Kate

Stitched on: 28ct Dried Thyme Joblean

Stitched with : GAST and NPI, Mill Hill Beads

This one was a joy to stitch!  Though I love complicated designs, I enjoy the colourful, fun designs from Lizzie*Kate as well!  I used a combination of the threads called for, and when I didn't have them I subbed from my stash.

So this travelling pattern is now ready to move on!!!  Leave a comment here stating that you'd like to be the next stitcher and I'll randomly select someone to be the next stitcher!  The only thing is you must be an active blogger, and that if your e-mail account isn't linked to your Blogger profile please leave an e-mail address so I can contact you.  The deadline to throw your name in the hat is Tuesday July 29th.  I'll be posting the winner on my return from Charleston on Wednesday July 30th!

Travelling Pattern Ready to Move On and New One Ready to Start

This afternoon I put the final stitches in Summer Garden, a travelling pattern I received in the spring from Valerie.

Summer Garden

Little House Needleworks

Stitched on 40ct Tanzanite Linen with Crescent Colours

This piece proved to be quite a slog for me, as I previously mentioned Little House Needleworks is not my usual cup of tea.  I'm not sure if it was Karma getting back at me for putting down designs like this.  If you've followed me over my many years of blogging you know that the more complicated the piece is the happier I am!  Needless to say I had to frog half of the border and until I actually got to the flowers this piece was just a chore!

One thing that did surprise me was this one little group of flowers!  To me they look like dadelions that have gone all fluffy!  I've done some searching online, and no one seems to have put those little knots in that I did.  They were dots on the charts, but no instructions so I decided to put in some colonial knots.  I think this was my favorite part of the chart.

So this travelling pattern is now ready to move on!!!  Leave a comment here and I'll randomly select someone to be the next stitcher!  The only thing is you must be an active blogger, and that if your e-mail account isn't linked to your Blogger profile please leave an e-mail address so I can contact you.  The deadline to throw your name in the hat is Monday July 21st, I'd like to get it out in the mail before I head to Charleston, S.C. on the 23rd!

A few weeks ago in the mail I received another travelling pattern, this time from Mouse!  As you can see from the back of the envelope there was no secret who this was from if you read her blog, she always tells you the kettle is on and its time to settle in for a cuppa.  She was so kind to include a skein of floss called Steaming Needles which was so appropriate because I had just finished Birth Announcement!

This sweet Lizzie*Kate will be a quick stitch, and here's my floss toss.  A few of the colours the chart called for I had on hand, some others I improvised with from my stash.  Keep an eye out this chart will be moving on soon!

New Start - Travelling Pattern

Quite some time ago I'm embarrassed to say I was the next person chosen for a travelling pattern.  I received it shortly before I started TW's Birth Announcement, I should of started it when it hit my doorstep... but I didn't.  Once I started Birth Announcement I had a serious case of tunnel vision.  No other project would do!

So finally I've started Little House Needleworks which I received as a travelling pattern from Valerie in France.  Keep an eye on this space over the next little while because once I'm done you might be the next lucky stitcher!

Here's my floss toss before I started it last week.  I'm stitching it one strand over two on 40ct tanzanite linen. I was able to pick up all of the floss colours sometime ago at Stitcher's Garden in the Syracuse, N.Y. area except for Crescent Colours Clay Pot... I just picked a nice bright red out of my stash to replace it, GAST Buckeye Scarlet.

As you can see I've not managed to get too far on it.  I've been exhausted this week so I've not been able to do hour upon hour of stitching in the evening and this weekend was busy with a day out fishing with Todd on his new bass boat.  Today I spent the day with Tracey doing some puttering around town and lunch out before she heads East for the summer.

Todd's dream came true this year with the boat (almost) of his dreams (the dream boat wouldn't fit in the garage)

 Ready for a day out on the water!

 The fishing was slow, and Todd was the only one catching the few fish that we did get

 When I got bored of not catching any fish, I pulled out a little stitching!

 A little visitor

 The end of a wonderful day on the water (despite the poor fishing)

In a few more weeks I'll be starting my summer travels, and I can't wait!  I'll be travelling down to the Charleston S.C. area to visit with Claire and wee Zachary the last week of this month.  Then I'll be following Tracey out East again.  Though I'll be going back to the same places I went to last summer, I can't wait to go!

I'm also looking forward to my travels next year as well! Yes I've already got stuff booked!  Of course I'll be going back to the Dominican Republic for my 6th year in February with 15 new students.  I'm also very excited that I've booked my flight to Yuma, Arizona for March Break!  I'll be spending a wonderful sunny week with Kathy, my very special friend!  I'm hoping there will be a road trip to the Attic for a little stash shopping!

I'm going to be spending far too much time on planes in the next year but I'll love it in the end!!!

Wipocalypse, Happy Dance, and a Little Geeky Fun

The full moon was earlier this week which means its time for my Wipocalypse report!

Since my last report I don't think I've stitched as much I wish I had, but like I've said over and over again lately.  My drive to do many of the things in my life has disappeared lately.  In the last month I have...

Finished an ornament.

Snow White

c2012 Diane Williams Little House Needleworks

Stitched on 28ct Navy Lugana

Stitched with B5200 and BF 032 in the snow

 

Just yesterday I had a Happy Dance!  This is yet another one of my Crazy January Challenge Starts.

I've worked on Accolade a little bit

I think Seasonal Mandalas has gotten some needle time but I'm not 100% sure.

Its Berry Season!

The Spider outside of the National Art Gallery

Yesterday Bonnie and her husband Blair came up for an overnight visit.  We met up with Christin and went for a bit of a walk in the Byward Market/Downtown Ottawa a bit of dinner.  We then went to the National Arts Center for a bit of culture... geek style!

Seeing the Fellowship Of the Ring on a super big screen with a LIVE orchestra and choir was just too cool for words!  They were so good that if they had been hidden behind a curtain I wouldn't of been able to tell that real live people had played the entire score!  As we watched the movie they played every bit of music as we watched, down to the score during the credits!  It was so impressive.  Fingers crossed they'll eventually do The Two Towers and Return of the King!

IHSW That Wasn't

This past weekend was witness to another edition of the International Hermit And Stitch Weekend.  However for me it was the stitch weekend that wasn't.  I barely put any stitches in!  It was a busy weekend!  I spent the day out Saturday with my Mum and kinda sorta Sister-In-Law, then had dinner that evening with Todd's family.  Sunday was Father's Day I treated my Dad to a movie we went and saw Prometheus (yeah!  Aliens rock!  Actually it was a great movie), then later in the afternoon the family got together to celebrate the day.  It was a fantastic weekend but so busy I was passed out on the couch before 10PM on Sunday!  I did enjoy myself.

Here are my current WIPs as of Friday night before I picked anything up:

The Accolade

Snow White

 

Here are my WIPs that I put a few stitches in... as you can see, a few.

The Accolade

Snow White

Saturday I took my Mum to a small quilt show the Country Quilter in Richmond puts on every year.  We've gone almost every year for the last few years (except last year for some reason), they put on this great little exhibit of local quilts in their yard its just so nice!  Here are some pictures from the day.

The Country Quilter is in an old house and they fill the back yard with quilts!

So many great and creative quilts!

 Annick my "sister in law"

My Mum and Annick

My favourite quilt of the whole show!

My second favourite quilt (I might be a little partial to red)

WIPocalypse for June

We are now into the 6th month of the year and half way to the end of the world I suppose ... we'd better hurry up and get stitching!!!!

Here's what I've managed to work on/get accomplished since the May report.

The Accolade, its been moving along nicely! Since the last report I've finished page 2 and I've managed to make my way all the way to the far right hand side of the design!  Yay this is as wide as its going to get!

Seasonal Mandalas - Spring has been moving along beautifully!  Before this report was due I managed to finish all the outlining for this current season and I've started adding a little more colour!  Its working up nicely!!!

I've put a few more stitches into Snow White, but you can't really tell from last month!

I've finished this letter D which is going into my friendship quilt

I've also stitched up this ornament, which I have no designer info for.

There is an exchange I can't share with you as well.

So that's what stitching I've managed to complete during the last moon cycle.

WIPocalypse Full Moon Update

As you know from yesterday's post, I decided to jump in with both feet and join the other big SAL going on out there in Stitching Blogland, WIPocalypse!  Definitely something I need to do since I'm on the verge of completing 15 new starts plus I already had 2 LARGE projects on the go!  I'll definitely need to do some WIP-busting once the Crazy Challenge ends this Sunday!

So let me show you the progress I've made on all my WIPs to date :

Enchantment of Winter - this will become my focus piece again once the Crazy Challenge is over, first on my WIP-busting agenda!

The Accolade - this is one of my long term WIPs with no rush or plans to finish it in the near future, its over one and 12 pages long!

Seasonal Mandalas - these will be my second focus piece once EOW is finished

Snowman 2010

Polar Friends Day & Night

Snow White

French Country Scardey Cats

Gone Fishing

So this is the most current up-to-date progress on all of my WIPs to date!