First finish of 2014

Watergarden is finished!  Just put the last bead in and ran the lint roller off to remove the extra specialty fibers and here it is!

Watergarden drive by

Last night I finished all the stitching on Watergarden.  I got started with the beading and am making good progress.  I'm hoping tomorrow night I can show a beautiful finish!

I'm slacking again...

I've thought about getting online on Sundays and giving you all an update.  I wish I could say I'm too busy stitching my little heart out to get it done, but that's not it.  I think it's because work is stressing me out, I just don't have the inclination.  

Last time, Watergarden was out.  I finished another 1/8th of the border.

Then it was time for a SAL with some lovely ladies from a BB I frequent.  We're all stitching a Face from HAED.

Last time Ginny was out, 

I made it all the way across the page this month.  I wanted to get to the fold of the page, but I didn't quite make it.  Here she is now

Watergarden started calling me again so I pulled it out to finish the border and start beading.  I'm hoping to get the border finished in the next couple of nights so I can start beading.  I'm hoping to have a finish this weekend.  

See you then!

Looking forward to 2014

Since 2013, was not the best year for me or for my family, I'm looking forward to what 2014 brings.  Hopefully, with the job interview #3 for the same company, it comes with a hefty raise!  Anyway, you're not here for that.  You're here for the stitching.  Am I right?

When I was putting the post for my review of 2013 together, I started thinking about what 2014 would bring too.  Since the 2013 post was so long, I decided that starting a new post for the new year was in order.  

So, here are my current WIPS:

started 10/1/09

Watergarden

started 1/1/09

Dorothy Walpole

started 1/1/13

Earth Song

started 3/2009

Loara Standish

started 1/1/13

HAED's Nightshade

started 10/31/13

Chatelaine's Rose Garden Mandala

started 11/24/13

Here Comes Santa Tree Skirt

started 2007

Coat of Arms

started 3/12/12

The Master (Tilton Crafts)

started 5/5/13

I plan to make progress on all of the above plus samplers such as Ann Bower, M. Woods and others.  I would like to start a couple of Chatelaines such as the Polar Mandala, The Hawaiian Mandala and the Art Nouveau Sampler.  I also plan to have a new years start later today and sometime this year start and make some good progress on Her Private Garden from HAED.

Wish me luck!

Seriously, I'm going to need it. 

2013, a review

At the beginning of this year, I had a whole pile of WIPs I wanted to finish.  I think I did a pretty good job of meeting those goals.  I thought I would share a pictorial review of my progress this year.

1900 ABC  finished 1/20/13

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Iris B  finished 3/24/13

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Chatelaine's Deep Blue Sea finished 4/11/13

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Bygone Stitches One Nation finished 5/20/13

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Sticklounge mystery finished 6/23/13
since this was a new start this year, there are no before pics

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Chatelaine's Summer Knotgarden finished 7/19/13

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HAED's Lust

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Watergarden

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Dorothy Walpole

a new start so no before pictures

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Earth Song

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Loara Standish

a new start so no before pictures

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HAED's Nightshade

a new start so no before pictures

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Chatelaine's Rose Garden Mandala

a new start so no before pictures

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XMas ornaments

new starts so no pictures.  

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Here Comes Santa Tree Skirt

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October progress and November goals

For October, I just wanted to make some progress on my active WIPs.  Here's how I did...

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I also had a new start.

I started HAED's Nightshade on Halloween.  After all, is there a better time to start stitching a witch?

I'm not stitching all those pages of black so here's the first page of actual stitching

and here's where I was last night

Not too bad hmmm?  Especially since there isn't really any block stitching yet.  

For November, I would like to see a couple of page finishes.  I want to finish page 15 of Lust and the current page of Nightshade and the page just to the left which will finish up the left edge of the hat and start the broom.  After that, just make more progress and possibly start Her Private Garden.