Finish!

Yesterday afternoon, I finally finished the stitching on Santa's Sleigh.

I hoped to get the beading done and I managed it just after midnight.

A little more progress

Fall must officially be here since we got some snow yesterday.  Maybe it won't feel quite so odd to be stitching something Christmas themed.

This is last night's progress on Santa's Sleigh.  I'm hoping to start beading this weekend.

Santa's Sleigh, an update

Fall has finally arrived.  I had to turn the heat on yesterday and we're supposed to get our first hard freeze tonight.  My DH says we're going to get whatever we plan to save out of the garden after we get home tonight.  Since I've already picked tomatoes, it shouldn't be too bad.  Just peppers to go.

I don't have much to update this time.  I'm still working on Santa's Sleigh by Nora Corbett and since my stitchy bug has made a strong reappearance, I've been making pretty good progress.

10/15/17

 10/20/17

10/22/17 

I've started on the packages since the last picture but I haven't taken another one yet.  Beading will be done after the stitching is completed.

It's been a bit

So some things happened which left me wondering how, why, etc.  But I don't want to go there.  

My stitching is kind of limping along right now.  I've only made a little progress in the last month.

Here's as far as I made it on Irish Chain before I got tired of dealing with the fiddly color changes with the Kreinik silk.

9/21/17

I've had Nora Corbett's Santa's Sleigh in the new start pile for a while.  Fabric is Wicked Garden from Colour Cascade Fabrics.

 9/23/17

9/24/17

 10/1/17

10/11/17

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