Autumn Flowers Famed and Fairy Hill Update

I got Autumn Flowers back from the framer and I absolutely love how it looks.  It's going to be so hard to give it away.

I didn't enjoy stitching it much so I probably would never do it again, but I just wish it could hang on my wall:-)

But I will be good and hand it over tomorrow at lunch for my MIL's birthday.

Here is a update on Fairy Hill.  I worked on it for the last 3 days and made alot of progress.

I started a new project today but I think it won't even make it a full 3 days in my rotation.  It is a small Jar Topper for my 2013 TUSAL jar.

Very Late Tusal and SF Update

We have been offline with our internet for awhile.  Luckily I could still use my phone to read blogs and comment, but my phone doesn't like the new blogger interface.

Okay first my very late Tusal for October:

Its a good thing that there are only two months left at my Jar looks like this already:

 

I wone a prize over at http://tryllacraft.blogspot.com/ and this is what the very generous lady sent me:

Wow, what a lot of goodies, and such a nice package to receive, Thank You.

And lastly here is how Summer Fairy looks now.  She is so fun to work on but she has been put away for awhile:

 And lastly I don't normally get too personal on the blog but I just had to share this pic of my daughter.  We were at a bird show and the kids got to hold one of the birds.  I think her expression says it all:

Summer Fairy Progress

I worked on Summer Fairy for a whole week and her skirt is still not done... but it's close:

I have put her away for awhile as I really want to catch up on the PR SAL.  I completed Clue 1 and 2 but 3 and 4 are already out and not a stitch done.

I am also trying to work on BT Cut-Thru Fairy Hill every third day just so that I can try get it done.

I find stitching weird sometimes.... At one point I loved working on this design so much that I could barely put it down but now I can barely pick it up as I just can't find the love I had.
I am trying to complete it because the daughter is feeling a bit unloved atm due to the fact that both this design and Mythical Muse are not being worked on and they are for her.

Autumn Flowers DONE

I can't believe it is finally done.  I have literally just put the last backstitch in it.

The last few days have been hard in the stitching department as I really wasn't in the mood to work on this, but I pushed myself to complete it.

It will get a bath and gentle ironing this weekend and on Monday I will take it to the framers.

Now I need to finish packing for our weekend away and tonight I will be happily working on Summer Fairy.

Finally A Small Finish

I completed a small finish and it has made me feel accomplished.

I finished the stitching and and almost all the the running stitch last night:

And then I spent most of today turning it into this:

So Close To A Finish

I am actually so close to two finishes that I can feel it.

This is Autumn Flowers with a before and after pic.  I only spent 2 days on her so not much progress but enough.

 

This has to get done asap because it's my MIL's birthday on the 27th October and it still needs to go to the framer.

 Here is what Celtic Wheel looked like on the 24th.

I have spent another 1 and a half days on it and I am on the third panel already.
I couldn't finish the backstitch on the second one until today due to the fact that I took the black thread outside with me while we had a braai last night, and when it got dark I took it all into the house.  But later that evening I realised that I didn't have my bobbin of black.  I searched all over and it's just POOF gone.  So I had to buy myself another one today and it bugged me because threads here are not cheap.  R9.00 a skein which is over $1.

My daughter is going to a sleep over in a bit so I will continue working on it in hopes of having lots of TV and stitching time tonight.  I may even have a finish to show next time I blog.

We had a special event this week.  My daughter has been going to cub scouts for awhile now but on Tuesday she finally got to wear her uniform and got all her official badges that have to go on the shirt.  Next month they will get their first interest badges.

Stitchy Update

I can't believe its been so long since I did a post with an update.

I have worked on Autumn Flowers but I forgot to take a pic.

Here is Summer Fairy so far.... please excuse the wrinkles and the hoop mark.

I am really enjoying working on her as I love the colours and she is so fun to stitch.  I am glad that I started with her skirt first because boy is it alot of stitching.  I got a bit bored with it so once I got about half of it done I moved onto the left side of her dress.  It is almost done and then I will complete her skirt and then do the right side next to her skirt.

I plan on doing the backstitch once all of her skirt is done and then move onto the top of the design and that way I won't have a lot of backstitch in the end.

I veered off of my rotation a bit and started a small design.

It's JE's Celtic Wheel... It's suppossed to be a lot smaller but I am doing it on 14 count.

It has been so long since I had a finish and this won't take too long and then I will at least feel accomplished.

My plans for this year are big and I hope that I can complete them.

1.  Finish Summer Fairy

2.  Finish Autumn Flowers

3.  Finish Celtic Wheel

4.  Start and finish Santa Stocking

5.  Finish Mythical Muse

6.  Finish Fairy Hill

Most of these are at least half way or more so maybe it's not so mad after all.