Here's where Sarah Hatton McPhail stands. Not finished, although close. I've got a little bit here and there--something on the border, finishing the four-sided stitch over the top of the navy letters/numbers, completing the boat and the lines in the water, doing some top stitching on bushes and trees, and a couple of over-one mottoes. I'm hoping to finish by the first Stitch Night in September, wherein my pals and I will be selecting a suitable frame.
Love the sampler but hate these little four-sided suckers, because you know, it's enough. This relationship is over. Time to move on.
Of course when a relationship goes bad, sometimes you cast your eyes around and start another relationship prematurely. My friend Carol M. loaned me this chart--I've been wanting to stitch it forever. Thanks, Carol! Blackbird Designs' "Blessings Be Thine" stitched on a piece of LL (vintage examplar, I think, 32 count) from my stash, using a conversion to Belle Soie silks from my stash.
Remember Hannah Carter? I hemmed and hawed over what to use for her.
Simple Cashel--everything is covered, so no sense using a nice over-dyed. I'm using the called-for AVAS with the exception of the background blue-green, for which I'm using Silk 'n Colors in Green Leaves (there are two Green Leaves--this is the dark). Hopefully the variegation will make it more fun to stitch all that background. And no, I'm not stitching it in the recommended one-stitch-at-a-time way--there's just too much of it.
I put a little work into Ann Dale: Big and Beautiful. I love this and am thinking ahead to Christmas (Christmas 2015 maybe). Called-for NPI on PTP 40 count fabric. Legacy?
Another new start: Sheepish Designs' "Spotless Innocence."
I'm stitching it on 40-count LL Examplar from my stash, along with a silk conversion of the DMC colors. It's a fun stitch.
Many thanks to a local stitching friend, Beth, who had listed the SI chart on ebay, and which I won in a bid, not knowing it was hers. She was destashing and generously gave me all of these Sheepish Designs! Thanks so much, Beth! I foresee many hours of happily sitting on my butt, stitching away.
Elizabeth is sitting in the sink, having her sticky pantaloons soaked clean in a plain warm-water bath. She appears serene here, doesn't she?
Noooooooo! Let me out!
On to stitch a bit. Happy week ahead!
