2/28/21

 Coat of Arms came out of my WIP pile on January 31, 2021.  I didn't think it would take all of February to see it complete, or as complete as I'm stitching but it did.

I was planning to pull out The Mermaid of Salem Bay but she'll just have to wait a little while longer.

Louisa Coulimore is back out for a little while.

2/8/21

 Coat of Arms Samplet has made a lot of progress this week.  

Pages 1-35 are complete.

I've started on page 36

 

1/31/21

 My first finish of 2021!

Mary Clayton from Hands Across the Sea stitched on 40ct Autumn Blush from Silkweaver with the DMC conversion 

Next up is my oldest WIP, Coat of Arms from Stickideen von der Wiehenburg 

5/12/2020

I've been making some progress on Coat of Arms Band Sampler from Stickideen von der Wiehenburg.

I finished page 30 over the weekend.

and last night I finished page 31.

I'm hoping to stick with this through at least page 35 since monochrome means I don't have to make any color decisions and I have enough stress in my life right now.

5/1/2020

This week has been crappy but the stitching is always there.

I finished page 9 of Old European Sampler Tuesday 4/28

 And page 10 today.

Now I'm debating on a new start of The English Whitework Sampler from The Needle's Prayse

Or Mary Clyton  from Hands Across the Sea.

Or I could just pull out Coat of Arms.

8/19/19

I've decided I want to give all my WIPs some love so I can meet my goals this year.  Most of them were to just get some stitches so it's not like the goals are hard, but still.

Page 26 of Coat of Arms from Stickideen von der Wiehenburg

Warrior Alice from Eclectic Bloke Designs

Thanks to the Friday Off the Grid group on Facebook, I had a new start of Autumn Quakers from Rosewood Manor.  I couldn't choose a fabric so my son picked Silkweaver's Toffee in 40ct.  I didn't have the Valdani called for so I picked similiar HDF from my stash.

And I completed the first motif before I moved on...

I also added some stitches to Wolf Totem from Charting Creations

and of course there was my son's stocking.

I'm hoping to get the gifts and sled done this week so I can move the the foot of the stocking.

They kinda look like chickens...

Last week was fairly productive.

I think the long tailed animals are probably supposed to be dragons of some nature, but they kind of look like chickens with the combs on top of their heads.

Page 23 2/28/17

page 24 3/4/17

page 25 3/6/17

overall

Now, Lust is back out to hopefully see some good progress and the end of the flames!

Coat of Arms

I've been making some really nice progress on Coat of Arms Band Sampler.  

page 21 2/21/17

page 22 2/25/17

2/27/17

I should finish page 23 tonight and make some headway on page 24.  After I finish this row of pages, I'm thinking about starting the next row.  Lust is still sitting on the coffee table staring at me though so I'll have to see how I feel after I finish page 25.

WIPS and a couple of floss tosses

Last week, I managed to get the rest of the black on page 2 done.  There is now over a skein of 310 stitched.  Saturday, I started filling in color and decided I'd had enough of color changes for a bit.  this is where I left Sea Witch.  I'll come back to her.

http://i1281.photobucket.com/albums/a507/skrieser/HAEDs%20Sea%20Witch/20170218_122529_zps424b4cpp.jpg

I pulled out Coat of Arms instead for some monochrome time.  This is far as I got Sunday.  I've almost finished page 21 but I don't have an updated picture.  

Saturday, my oldest had a basketball game.  So I checked the stash to see what I need to finish kitting up Mirabilia's Snow Queen and Santa's Sleigh.  After basketball we stopped by Hobby Lobby to pick up what I was missing.

I think my floss tosses look pretty good.  I'm using Wicked Garden by Colour Cascades Fabrics.  I took pictures on the same piece of fabric but you get the idea.  When I saw the fabric, I had a picture in my mind's eye of the northern lights behind them and this fabric is perfect.  I think there could be a problem with a couple of the DMC colors, but they're surrounded by other colors so I don't think they'll be an issue.

Snow Queen floss toss

Santa's Sleigh floss toss

April Wipocalypse

Another full moon another Wipocalypse posting.

Last month, I was working on Coat of Arms band sampler.
Page 19

Page 20

Then I decided to make sure my original measurements were right...and not so much.  I'm short fabric so I'm trying to rearrange (in my head right now) and decide which row(s) I'm going to skip to make this fit on my fabric.

This month, I've been pretty focused on Chatelaine's Medieval Octagon

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

First quarter of part 6

I'm actually a little further than this.  I've got everything in the second quarter stitched except what's in the gold square.  I'm hoping to finish that tonight and get started on the next quarter.  I'm getting so very close to a finish on this one.  

Then I think I'm going to pull out Nightshade.  

My goal this year is to stitch the next page which will complete the row since I'm not stitching the black background.

Measi's question this month is What do you listen to while stitching? (via Jo)

I'll listen to almost anything or nothing at all.  Most evenings, you can find me parked in the living room in front of the TV whether I'm listening to what's on or I'm watching something else on Hulu or Netflix.  I also turn on the radio and stitch away as I don't have to pay any attention to whats happening on TV.  Many evenings, I'm at ball practice with my oldest.  I'll watch to see what they're doing and I'll have the radio on in the car.  Other evenings, we'll be outside on the patio.  The chickens talk to themselves and I'll just enjoy the quiet.

Coat of Arms

We had a quiet weekend.  Cold rain Saturday definitely helped with that.  So, in between loads of laundry Saturday, I stitched and finished page 19 of Coat of Arms.

Sunday, there wasn't as much laundry, but I did finish page 20.

and that finished the row

When I took this off the q-snaps, I decided, for whatever reason to make sure my original measurements were correct.  And, my fabric turns out to be short.  I'm probably just going to drop the last band which should leave enough room, but I'm debating rearranging bands a little.  So Coat of Arms got put away for the time being and will hopefully come out again when I make a decision.  When I was looking through my WIPs, I decided to pull out Medieval Octagon again.  Baseball practice has started again so I should have lots of time to stitch at the ball field as long as my son doesn't try to catch any more balls with his mouth and knock more baby teeth out.  He wasn't impressed with the teasing.  lol!

March WIPocalypse

It's been a while since I've participated in Measi's WIPocalypse.  But there's no time like the present, right?

Since my participation score for this year, so far, is 0, I thought I would update my progress since the beginning of the year.

I started off this year with a new start.  Who doesn't?  This year's new start was Sea Witch from HAED

I finished the first page 

I love how those colors POP against the black background.

Then, I pulled out Mill Hill's Glory and Honor.  This was the second time I've stitched it.  I left off the border this time around though.  Here's where I left off last year

And here is my first finish of 2016

After my finish, I decided on another new start.  This time it was Chatelaine's Medieval Octagon in colorway 1

Here's my progress so far

Then I pulled out The Loneliness of Autumn from Love Thy Thread

Before

I haven't managed to finish page 3 but I needed a break from the confetti.

Current

Right now, I have Coat of Arms band Sampler out and am making pretty good progress.

Before

page 16

page 17

page 18

I'm hoping to finish this row of pages by Sunday night.

Measi asks a question each month.  This month's question is

Do you use hoops, stretcher bars, lap stands or Q snap frames and why?

I'm pretty exclusively a Q snaps at this point.  When I started stitching many years ago, I used a hoop.  That's what Mom used and that's what she taught me to use.  Over the years, I've used the split dowel rods and hated them.  I've also used Lokscrolls from Artesan Designs and absolutely love them, but so many of my projects are too big for them and they get really bulky to deal with.  My favorite Q snaps are 11" square.  I have a homemade grime guard over them and I have a bag that goes over the bottom of them for my HAED Super Size design.