Friday CrossStitch Update

  I am so excited to be on the last page of this SK. This is the first HAED I ever started, and I only have finished one which was an SAL back in 2009.  I can say I am on the last page - who cares if it is only three pages.  Right?  It is so tempting now not to keep working on it, but I have so many others  I want to work on also.

 SAL SK Forbidden Doorway.  Maybe, just maybe I will finish Page 1 - but I will have to work this weekend, so I will be missing out on several stitching hours.  I don't know why I am dragging my feet on this one. 

This upcoming week I will be working on 

   

Friday Cross Stitch Update

SK Forbidden Doorway
June 2012

So here is the update of Forbidden Doorway.  As you can see my goal of finishing pg 1 did not happen.  But I am not one who will ever live or die by my goals.  I always keep the goal, but extended the date.  It has worked well for me, but I have never been a rigid goal setter - which has helped minimize the stress in my life.

Unspoken Julie Fain

This upcoming week I am going to spend my HAED stitching time on Unspoken. The BB SAL this week, is the SWIP (slow WIP) and I have chosen this to work on.  I messed up setting my 2012 goals on the HAED BB.  I tried to pick fewer  WIPs and set large stitching goals, and I don't know why, because that so goes opposite of how I think. Because I am a serial WIP Stitcher.   And I have to learn how to be true to myself, and not try to follow too many others routines, because I am just going to be me, and I am too old to change.  Besides I really don't want to.  Am I rambling.  Yes.  But also clearing my mind.

I also am going to spend a little time working on my Santa.  Because it is just too close to being finished to be ignored any longer.  I still have not located my Winter from two weeks ago, and my son has not found it at his home.  As soon as I can find it, I will posted updated picture.

I am sure it must be in the house somewhere.  Now that it is Summer, and warm, I spend much less time stitching.  So we will see how the week goes.

Enjoy

Friday Cross Stitch Update

This is where I finished off the week with Fancy Dancing.  So excited because I reached and past the half way point of the top row, which doesn't mean a whole lot, but heck , you got to celebrate each milestone, no matter how small - baby steps or big steps, doesn't matter which - I will still get there.

I left my other project at the grandkids house, Winter, so I do not have a picture, but will post.  As it was MIA all week, did about 100 stitches on the weekend.  Once again Baby Steps are cool.

This week I am working again on Forbidden Door, and will only be working on this chart, unless I finish pg 1.  If I am successful at that, will share early, and my new wip.

This weekend great concert planned, Lady Antebellum with Darius Rucker and Thompson Square.  And we all know it is Darius I am off to see - at least once a year I am lucky enough to go to one of his tickets.  Please cross your fingers he finishes with Purple Rain.

Monday off for Spring Cleaning.....

Happy Weekend. 

Friday Cross Stitch Update

This is Forbidden Doorway as of the end of the week.  I am happy with this progress, and I really love working on this.  I have saved her face for the very end.  Not sure why.  I am becoming less rigid in my Cross stitch "rotations".  I believe I will be working on this lady a little every week, as I can see progress quickly and it's good for my soul.

This up coming week I am working on QS Tomboy this is with the HAED SAL - it is a SWIP.  SLOW WORK IN PROGRESS, is what I think it means.  I just know I have been working on her since 2009, and I WANT to finish her.  I love her - mostly because she is named Tomboy and I grew up as ONE OF THOSE.  In fact just beginning of this week, was driving by a school at end of the school day.  There were a group of kids walking about 7 little boys and 1 little girl.  Must have been about 8-10.  WOW that was so me.  With my older brother and friends.  Remembering Steve (taken way too soon).  So now you know why I am working on her.

And this week too I will be working on a NON HAED.  This is True Love II  - Couchman Creations, Karen Couchman.  I have been working on this project since I bet 2007. I am not joking.  I added a new page to my blog - it is my NON HAED WIPS and it has a picture of what this will look like when completed.  As you can see, I am so very close, and I WANT to finish it. 



Weekly Positive Encouragement from Reggie Leach "Success is not the result of spontaneoius combustion.  You must set yourself on fire....."  Where's that match?

May 6 CrossStitch Update

So this week I will be working on Forbidden Doorway.  The Freebie HAED SAL, and I am really happy because I love to work on this one.  This is the before.

I have no After of Tresures because I was so disappointed in my lack of time spent on it - it was no change.

So I wondered, what is up with that - why was it so difficult for me to stitch this past week, on a chart I LOVE - its a black and white, I have the perfect place for it, it is a Mermaid......  So what was my problem.  Simple it is the 25 ct fabric.  I am sure of it - I can't see it and I have to use a magnifer and I have not found a comfortable way to stitch on it.  What to do????  Well - it will work out I know, because I really love it too much to leave it UNFINISHED.  So I am on the search for a much better magnifier thing.  And I may just go to the eye drs and see if she can hook me up with better glasses, well just needlework glasses....  or something. 

In the meantime, after reading other blogs, I have started missing my NON HAED design wips.  So I am going to change some things up.  Not sure just how - but I am going to start working on more variety of projects.  I know if I keep the beads out - which I hate, and the fractional stitches - which I hate I think I will be just fine.  I do not mind the back stitching.  And for the designs I really love with beads, half the time you can leave the beads out and they look just fine to me.  And seriously, aren't I the one that matters here.

Mowed the lawn today - it was like a jungle out there...  but glad that is over.

Love Sunday nights.  Remind me of being a kid and family times, but now I am not watching Disney, or Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom - but I am watching a Fairy Tale....  Once Upon a Time.  So addicted that show, must be because after Mermaids, I think I love witches most.

Heaven and Earth SAL Week of 4/6

I am working on Forbidden Doorway for this week. I am sure the new page will be out next month and I really want at least three more rows done on my stitching.  I also need these stitches done, so I do not get too far behind on my 2012 goals.  Here is where I am starting This is 18 ct  2 over 1 full cross stitch and I enjoy this one, because it is so easy for me to see, I do not have to strain my eyes at all.   This is the Freebie SAL - M. Dillman. 

Cross stitch Update HAED SAL

 

Heaven and Earth Designs Week 2 SAL

 

 

Week Beginning - this is the UFO week, I am working on my QS Tomboy,it is one of my 2012 goals and I have been working on it for over a year now and not even one page done  She is 1 over 1  full crosses 22 ct Hardanger  Selina  Fenech Artist

Week Ending After picture - SAL Freebie SK Forbidden Doorway This is 2 over 1 full crosses on 1 ct aida Meredith Dillman - Artist This link takes you to the artist site and this full size picture, It was cropped for the Freebie SAL to be a SK size.  Please see Heaven And Earth Designs for more info,

These are both great for me, because I do not need help with the seeing - no mag glass.  It is awkward for me to use one.  Treasures on 25 - is hard, and Northern Lights on 28 hard - I may do a restart for Northern Lights - I really want to finish that project but the fabric count is holding me back