A finish, a middle and a beginning

August 27, 2007

Molly from Carriage House Samplings...

It's Good to Be Queen from one of Mary Engelbriet's books
Last year the Thursday Stitchers took part in a round robin. We stitched nutcrakers, International bears, cats, penguins, teapots, all our tomorrows children, a Christmas piece, initial angels, and probably some others as well. This year we are embarking on a stitch along. A couple of months ago, Cross stitch Gold magazine published a couple of teapots in successive issues. Some of us are doing the blue one and some the yellow one. We will have an impressive collection of tea cosys, pillows and pictures when we finish them. I am doing the blue one.
No sign of the sign.

WIP - Molly

July 31, 2007
Well it is not the greatest picture of Molly and her cat but you can certainly see that not only have I made some progress but she is nearly finished. Turns out my fabric is a little too light for her neck and arms to show up so I may have to do a bit of backstitching to give them some definition but other than that I am happy with it. A bit more filling in of background and I may have a finished product later in the week. I haveto pack as much blogging in as I can during the next three days since we will be away for awhile after that. So watch for a couple of finishes tomorrow and the next day.

WIPs

July 5, 2007

As promised I am finally showing some of my works in progress. Here is Molly with feet. Her long black dress was getting a bit tedious but now I am working on the cat and perhaps it will progress at a faster pace.
I am involved in a small neighbourhood round robin and the theme of this one is winter. Unfortunately I think we may have to involve a few more people in this endeavour since I put my house way "out in the country" quite a distance from the other two building and the skating rink already stitched on this piece. (sorry Marsha)
When I was working on Molly's long black dress, I decided I needed a colourful diversion so I stitched up these two pin cushion tops from the June issue of Gift of Stitching magazine. The fabric is called Strawberry Milkshake (Silkweaver) and the thread used was GAST Raspberry Parfait. Both were fun to stitch. Of course the trick now will be to actually make them up into pinkeeps!

Molly

June 18, 2007

This is one of my current works in progress. She is Molly one of the Carriage House samplings girls. I think she is very sweet.

I worked on David's Christmas stocking and will post a pic soon. I have added his name to the top and actually think that will be all that will go on it. All my designing and planning is going out the window. It wasn't that good anyway so I am thinking less is more and will be looking for suggestions and comments once I iron it and get a picture. That will be forthcoming sometime this week.

Meanwhile...here's Molly.