Finish #4

Yay!  I just finished 5 Little Pumpkins by The Cat's Whiskers!

Here's band 17

And the whole long, skinny piece.

When I put this in the drawer of finishes, I pulled out all my WIPs to choose which one is going to be making an appearance.  It appears I'm going to be staying with a Halloween theme as HAED's Nightshade came back upstairs with me.

Here's before!

Fifteen...

Last night, I finished band 15 out of 17 on 5 Little Pumpkins.  When I started this band, I noticed that I had not followed the chart exactly for band 14.  At that point, I decided I wasn't going to rip it out.  It just makes mine unique.

Check!

I make lists.  Some of those lists take years to finish, but eventually they get there!!

Take my laundry room.  Painting the floor has been on my to do list for the last several years.  With rearranging the basement, I managed to get most of that done.  At this point I'm going to check it off.  I still need to get under the washer and dryer, but I have to figure out where my washer is leaking first.  Priorities, you know.

Another much more recent item on my to do list is to build storage in that space.  Thursday night, I finished it!  I'm still working on putting things away, so please don't judge my mess!

Friday, I didn't have to work, and with everybody else, I had lots of time on my hands.  So I made a trip to town, came back and went from this

to this

I'm slowly working on figuring out where I want to put stuff, but so far I love my peg board!  Remember, the hardware store isn't just for the outdoor workbench.  So much can be re-purposed to use for a craft space!

With just me and the beasts, I got lots of stitching time too.

Last week, 5 Little Pumpkins was here

6/28/15 band 7

7/1/15 band 8

7/2/15 band 9

moved the qsnaps - overall pic

7/3/15 band 10

7/3/15 band 11

7/4/15 band 12

7/4/15 band 13

moved the qsnaps - overall pic

7/5/15 band 14

I did start the next band last night, but it's another big one.  I'm hoping to finish this in the next week. 

Wish me luck!

Later!

Can I get a little cheese...

To go with my whine??  I'm only kind of kidding.  Actually I'm thankful it's only been in the 80s this weekend.  90s would have been almost intolerable.

This weekend was the 12U baseball tournament for the baseball league my oldest son plays in.  We started off Friday at 5.  It meant I had to leave work early to get him to the tournament site to warm up.  They lost their first game which meant they played an additional game at 8:30pm.  They won that game.  But, that shot our evening since we didn't get home until after 11pm.  Saturday morning, we had another game at 11:30am which meant we had to leave by 9:30 am and drive an hour so he could warm up with his team.  They won that game too and played again at 4:30pm.  We stopped at the store on the way home for some pizza and gatorade for the game today.  We had another game this morning.  If they had won, there was the possibility of 5 games today.  Those would have been some drop dead tired boys if that had worked out for them.  Peasonally, I'm glad it's done for another year.  I have sunburn to deal with.

This is my boy playing first base.

I did get some stitching done this weekend.  Especially during the break they had between games.  I've been working on 5 Little Pumpkins by The Cat's Whiskers again.  Here's where it was when I pulled it back out last week.

Band 3 on 6/24/15

Band 4 on 6/26/15

This one involved a little fudging.  I didn't have the Kreinik the chart called for or even a close approximation.  I think it called for 5510-Persimmon.  I used PB14 instead which is a bronze.  I think it works very nicely with the black silk and the purple rhodes stitch.  It kind of looks like antique pumpkin color.

Band 5 on 6/27/15

Band 6 on 6/28/15

and here's an overall pic since I had to move my qsnaps.

I also made some progress downstairs this week.

Digit (my feline helper) is checking out my work.  I had to pick up some more lumber to get beyond this point and I took care of that today.  I'm hoping to pick this back up later tonight or tomorrow.

Page 1 - Her Private Garden

Late last night, I finished page one of Her Private Garden.  I thought about starting page 2 but decided to rotate to another WIP.

I was going through my WIPs Sunday when I knew a page finish was in my future.

Since I don't have a Chatelaine WIP right now, I pulled out 5 Little Pumpkins.  One of my goals this year is to finish this.

I hadn't really looked at these pictures together.  I think my fabric definitely tones down the orange in the original version.

5 Little Pumpkins

Last week I told you I had started 5 Little Pumpkins.   On Wednesday I finished band 1 and realized how spoiled I've been using Delicas.  This chart calls for Mill Hill beads and the're is a big difference! 

10/29/14

  

Thursday my youngest said he didn't feel good so we stayed home.  It took me all day to get this part pf the poem stitched then it took me until Sunday afternoon to finish the pumpkins.   

11/2/14

While I was downstairs doing laundry yesterday, I did some stash diving to see if I could find anything to tempt my mojo.   I came up with Chatelaine's Embroidered Elegance 4.  My kit even had fabric in it that just needed to be zigzagged.  

Unfortunately,  the ink in my printer was dry so I couldn't print the chart.  So, I brought Romantic Rose Garden back out.  Unfortunately all I did last night was thread my needle.   Today at work I started the eyelets in the south arch in the middle.  I probably finish that bit then switch to my new start.   Here's hoping a new start works!

Later!

Freebie finish

I didn't think the freebie from Chatelaine's Art Nouveau Sampler would take long to stitch up and it didn't disappoint.  I finished all the beading Saturday afternoon.

For whatever reason, Martina didn't list what the crystals were supposed to be around the center, so I just did a little stash diving and came up with these.  I think they look just fine.

Sunday, I pulled out a chart I've had since 2009.  It's called 5 Little Pumpkins by The Cat's Whiskers.

I've converted to HDF silks and pulled a piece of what I think was 32ct HDF linen.  When I counted my stitches per inch, I got 34 so it shrank a little in the drying process.  I started out with a black hand dyed then realized that with all the black in the chart, it wouldn't work.  A stash dive gave me a slightly varigated fabric that kind of reminds me of Belfast Cobblestone.  I'm getting close to being done with the trees at the top.  Pictures to come this weekend.

Later!