Through my window

Looking outside into the dreary, raining blah that is the outside world right now, makes me glad to have a bright cheerful window to look at instead.  This is through page 7.  

While I wait on page 8 and/or page 5 of Deep Blue Sea to be released, I 'm going to pull out 1900 ABC.  Something about stitching a monochrome can be so relaxing.

The Letter S

Thanks for all the great comments!  They can really brighten a girl's day or make her smile after planting trees and potatoes :)

This afternoon, since I left work about 1:30pm since all I was doing anyway was surfing the internet, I came home and finished my letter S.  It's stitched with a custom Woad combo (2407/11/15) from HDF from early last year.  I seem to have a thing for the Woads and this came out great.  It even plays really well with the fabric that will line the box.  I'm thinking of staining the box in ebony.  Any thoughts?  Comments?

Now, I've got supper to get into boys so they can get into the shower so I can sit down with Window!

Later!

IHSW - April

Well I didn't get as much hermitting done as I would have liked but there was some progress made.  I finished the entire right side of Spring Knotgarden.  Then I put it up for a bit.  

Friday night, I tea dyed a piece of Monaco.  You can't see it very well here, but it turned out very nice.  Very mottled.  It's for my box top for the box finishing class I decided to do something simple.  This will be the letter S.  I started the stitching yesterday morning and with any luck, I should be done stitching tonight.

Spring Knotgarden and a box

I finished my first corner of Spring Knotgarden tonight.  The bright pink is one I subbed for the much more subdued one that started in part 1.  But I think I like it.  To me, spring is all about bright colors after the blah of winter.  

Now, three corners to go.

I'm also taking a box finishing class.  You start out with an unfinished box as seen here.  You end up with a finished box that is lined with fabric inside and has a piece of needlework mounted on top.  

I found these boxes today at Hobby Lobby and picked a couple pieces of fabric while I was there.  I think I know what's going on top, I just need to get it stitched!

Ho hum kind of day

We had some excitement yesterday.  The weather man was putting the mid west in high threat severe weather all day yesterday and into the evening.  Thankfully, we didn't see anything worse than thunderstorms though lots of people did.  As far as I've heard today, no one was injured or killed.  All their "stuff" can be replaced.  Experience talking here folks.

After finishing part 4 of Deep Blue Sea, I pulled Spring Knotgarden back out.  The last time I worked on it, I have finished half of a corner of part 5.  It's not much, but it's progress.  Saturday, I finished the other half of that corner.  Leaving me with this

Then I pulled Chelsea's Gift out for a little while which turned into this afternoon before I put it down.  I'm making pretty good progress every time I work on it.  There is just a huge amount of confetti here.

Then out came Lust.  I put in a couple of strands this afternoon, but I can't seem to get into her again.  I thought if I worked on a block of solid color, I would have an easier go but nothing.  I would like nothing more than to see another page stitched but I guess it's not going to happen...for now.

So, Spring Knotgarden is back and I'm working on part 6 of that same corner which is going well.  With any luck, I'll see part 6 for this corner done and I'll move onto the next corner this week.  

Conversions added

I just added new conversions to my conversion page.

They include Serengeti, Spring Watergarden and Anniversary Sleeping Beauty Castle

And then there were four.

Thankfully, part 4 of Deep Blue Sea didn't take very long to stitch up.

In the upper right corner and lower left corner are the beads I picked up last weekend for the oysters.  Right now I'm leaning towards the last bead in the string in the upper right.  They're kind of silvery and I like the look.  That could change between now and when they actually get attached though.