What I have been doing for June

So, early in the month I put my stitching down and was busy with other things. I just wasn't feeling it so I took a break. I had been working on this pattern and kept rebuying the pattern because my stitch was off, when I learned I could photocopy it for a "working copy" I was so happy. I picked up some prisma col erase pencils and that has been working great. I change colors every bit or so and that has also helped me stay on track. Now that I had that figured out I began to enjoy stitching again. I am a newbie to stitching and just didn't know all the tricks of the trade.

I have started working on "Snowdrop Fairy" again and have gotten a bit done. Here is a photo....

Not bad if you take in how many times I restarted it. So I have some of the dress and have started the hair. This is a photo of what it will look like...

And because I was needing a change I started the "Live Simply" by Dimensions design. I love the daisy on it as it is my favorite flower. This is where I have reached in the pattern...

I have gotten a bit done but still a bit more to go... This is what it looks like...

I am looking forward to completing this I am going to change the colors in the blocks to match my decor better.

So, this inserting pictures is pretty easy once someone told me how to do it, lol. Thanks Mel L.

I am impatiently waiting for my birthday on July 4 so I can see if I get any stitching stuff... I have a list I want to order but I don't want to buy something if my hubby is getting it for me, lol...

Until next time, Happy Stitching!

June's Cross Stitch Update

Well I haven't much to post this month I haven't done any stitching this month maybe a total of 150 stitches. I have bee enjoying this summer weather and haven't began stitching much. I have been told how to insert a photo and had full intentions on doing so if I had anything to show for it. I bought one pattern and a few books but I used a gift card for half price books to get them and found the pattern at walmart and it was bought for me as a birthday gift. My birthday is 4 July and the kit was marked down to $5 but because it is a birthday gift I don't get it until my birthday sooo I can't remember which one it was, lol. Until July

100 Stitches Done

So I have been trying to stitch 100 stitches a day and it went well during that rotation. I have a lot of projects going at the moment so I am only devoting a week this month to stitching. I am in the process of setting up my studio and some other projects. I can't wait to get back to that rotation and working on it again. I would swap my rotation around if I didn't have deadlines on some projects. So I have some progress on my pattern this month I just can't figure out how to insert a photo. I am thinking of doing YouTube videos so I can show, when I figure out how to stay in frame I will. Until then, happy stitching

100 stitches

I emailed Mel from Stitch from Stash with April's info and at the same time asked if she had any tips for keeping track of my stitching better. I had been having to rip out everything and keep starting over, this was very frustrating to me. She suggested colored pencils, well I dug out my col-erase pencils by prismacolor and began coloring my stitches in on a "COPY!!" of my pattern. I change colors each day so that helps me a lot. Oh, I also had been buying multiple copies of my patterns usually 3 copies of each pattern and now I photocopied it and have my good one to print another one if I mess this one up. ;} So I have been challenging myself to stitch a minimum of 100 stitches each day which may not sound like much to some fast stitchers but I am a turtle in comparison.

A Little Haul

I haven't spent to much this month, I grabbed a couple pattern books with different fonts at Half Price Books. I have been using bobbins for my floss storage so I picked up some of those, although now I am thinking I would be better with floss away bags, soooo... I also went with amazon for the best pricing on another copy of a pattern I am trying to stitch. I have bought it !3! times, so I am scanning and printing one this time. I am thinking about doing this and storing them on a thumb drive, not sure about copyright though. I spent exactly $23.45, the numbers falling consecutively like that is a first for me. I would love to show a pic with my work in progress but I had to rip it out and start over again. Wishing for better luck in May

YAY!!

YAY!! My Millenium frame has arrived. This was a gift so I didn't break budget and I was becoming quite worried because it was ordered on New Year's and I have  never had an item coming from another country. I am in the US and company is in UK so I was making myself a bit frazzled. It arrived and I immediately put a project on it and beginning stitching and thought "Wow I have got a lot done" and then looked at it and had to say 'Oh Sh`t I messed up my counting" started counting and notice it was in the beginning and have to frog every stitch. I had that happen last night and I also write on my pattern and have to buy a new one... grrrr. I will be making a photocopy in the future to write upon. Hope everyone has a great stitching weekend.

Finishing February

Hello... I thought to check in and let you all know that I have bought a skein of floss this month. I have been working on my faerie and haven't finished much more of it. My husband and I have been playing monopoly instead of my stitching. I have enjoyed spending the time with him and a little less stitching right now is okay. He will be under the hood of his truck soon enough, the weather is improving.  I won't see him then, lol. He is working Sunday so maybe I will do some stitching then. Have a happy day.

Blessed Imbolc Stitching

Blessed Imbolc 

I hope everyone is enjoying this day, I am working on my Snowdrop Fairy today. I am a VERY slow stitcher still, I make a lot of mistakes... between reading a pattern, and putting stitches in I somehow goof up, lol. On a brighter note, I am learning how to un-stitch quite well. I have been doing okay with using a hoop but sure wish my millenium frame would arrive. It is a gift and I am so excited about it. 

I have done really well with staying in budget, and am glad that I am doing this. I am taking the money and using it differently and trying to save a little more here and there. I am planning a trip to Half Price Books this coming week and will be checking to see what they have for selection of pattern books. 

I also do papercrafting and  have a couple of gifts I am working on at the moment. I have put myself on a budget there as well so that I can use up some stash there as well. 

I am thinking about combining the two and trying to stamp an image onto my fabric and cross stitch the design. Has anyone tried this? What results did you get?

January Stitching

I finished a bookmark I was designing for my GrandMom it included three suns, for her children, seven red seed beads, for her grandchildren, and ten orange seed beads, for her great-grandchildren. This was the first time I worked with metallic threads (awful), beading and fractional stitches. This was my first time I tried my hand at designing as well, and I made so many errors that I spent quite some time on it, almost a month actually.

I have that completed, YAY!!

I went to my local Joann's and did some shopping this month. I picked up the UK mag, Cross Stitch Gold (they had March 2014 out!!) so I picked it up and then I had to get some evenweave, and some floss.... total AFTER sales tax was $19.51 USD.

I love coupons!! They take competitor coupons too. I am the coupon queen around here anyways...

So I started the "Snowdrop Fairy" pattern in the Cross Stitch Gold mag I had picked up and the "Butterflies" as well, but I had a seizure working on the "Butterflies" and spilled  coffee all over it that wouldn't come out, so it was thrown in the garbage. Still working on the fairy... I can't wait to see it completed. There seem to be a lot of color changing though... Wish I could "grasp" the theory

of parking, oh well back to stitching.

Happy Stitching!