Well, February wasn't the best stitchy month for me, but I did reach a major goal, so it wasn't a total loss. I think February always throws me off because it's such a short month, and this year I was sick, plus there's been so much snow! Earlier this week, we had ice in the morning, which caused a lot of havoc, but I chose to stay home and stitch. :)
I haven't updated in two weeks, so here's what I was working on two weeks ago, my French Lavender kit by Riolis:
Please ignore the hoop marks. :) I worked on this for 6 days because I just couldn't put it away. I was tempted to keep going on this one, but I think I'll stick to my rotation for now. I was so happy to finally get the bottom of the basket done. I even backstitched it! The only bad thing is that I didn't notice one of the symbols in the leaves was supposed to be done in half stitch, and I did full crosses. I was debating just leaving it, but I think I'll restitch it after all. I like the textured effect it gives. And I'll have to take better pictures next time so you can see better. (Sorry!)
Luna did not get much attention in February, so I only managed a column and a half:
I'm still hoping to finish this page in March, so I'm still on track. It just feels like I'm going really slow on her lately.
This week I also worked on Stars by The Drawn Thread and managed a finish!
I got a lot done the day of the ice storm, so I just had to keep going to the end. The vines at the bottom were supposed to have buttons attached, but I didn't want to do that, so I stitched some red flowers instead. On the left, those are Leviathan stitches, which is a variation of the stitch used on the vine at the top. On the right, I did tiny Jessica stitches using a diagram I found on Google. Those were really easy and just add a little something different. So here's the full view:
I wish I knew how to get a better picture, but my phone just doesn't like to cooperate. But you get the idea. I'll have to custom frame this one, so it will be a while, but I'm so happy to have this done. This brings my wip count down to 67? I think? :)
That's all for now, I guess. I might start updating every 2 or 3 weeks now, just because I've got so much going on. We're really behind at work, so there should be a lot of overtime in my future. Hopefully I can keep up with stitching though. (Fingers crossed!) So, until next time! Happy stitching!
Congratulations on the Finish! You got alot done for a short month!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on finishing Stars, it looks great and I am looking forward to see it framed =)
ReplyDeleteI always love your updates on Luna, every column of background done brings us closer to see Luna herself stitched =)
As for French Lavender, I think it looks great. But I get what you mean with the different types of stitches adding to the texture, my Dimensions projects also work with half and full crosses (and various amounts of strands) and it really adds a lot of depth to the designs. If there are not to many stitches done, I guess I would also redo them, but then no one but you would know if you did the wrong stitch, right? Anyway, I am sure it will look great in the end =)