Stitching Continues!!

I have stitched every day now for the last couple weeks and it feels great!

After I completed the care bear I pulled out my project bag and emptied it. I laid all the contents on my bed and played "match up" with the fabric and charts. Back in Dec. 2011, I was doing an ornament challenge and had stitched reindeer designs made by Daffy Cat and had completed the stitching on 2 of them, leaving 1 in progress. I completed the third one yesterday. (I will get a pic up as soon as my camera charges)


Last year I signed up for a Valentine's Day exchange, in the hopes that it would help kick start my desire to stitch. It didn't, but the project was in my bag about a quarter done. It is a design that I made and I don't want to give it away, but I did take a pic that gives a bit of a sneak peek.

In addition to that, I had a bunch of little X-mas ornaments I stitched many years ago (2001 or so). In Dec. of 2012 I had my niece help me stuff them with poly fill. My intention was to make little pillow ornaments out of them. They got stuffed, and the open edge pinned together and that was it. Today I finally got around to closing the open seam and adding hangers. I will take pics, hopefully, tomorrow.

Also in my project bag was the Quaker I started a few  years ago. I added some more on it yesterday and today as well.

So yup,  stitching is happening and I am very happy about that!

Finally I stitched tonight!

I took a few days off from stitching and focused on trying to get myself onto a schedule for household chores now that my depression has been relieved. I haven't felt this good in a very long time (it has been a year which is a long time) and I am enjoying feeling better! I've been focusing on getting back into control of my house and straightening things out, cleaning and all that. So I haven't been stitching this week.

I did stitch tonight and worked on Christmas Dreams. I realized that I seriously miscounted when I posted that it was time to switch back to the Quaker. I posted that I pulled out Christmas Dreams on the 7th, but the date of the post was the 14th and for the life of me I can't remember if I had stitched on it for that week, or if I had just looked at the wrong date on the calendar while writing the post. So to try and settle it I chose not to swith and kept Christmas Dreams out for this week. I didn't stitch until this evening. I worked on the blank area where his hair/sideburns meet his beard and filled most of it in. All that is left is the second blue color that marks the curls which I hope to finish tomorrow. Then I will return to the bottom and continue working on his beard. Sorry but I didn't get a picture.

After a couple hours on Christmas Dreams I pulled out Woodland Fairy by Teresa Wentzler. I haven't stitched on this piece in a very long time. I had started it for someone I considered to be a very close friend and whom I loved a great deal. Suffice it to say that my love and trust were badly misplaced. When I realized that, I lost the desire to work on this piece and that was 4 years ago (it was already a ufo). It has been languishing in my stitching drawers as a UFO. I decided to stitch it for myself instead! As today is Thursday it is UFO stitching day on the yahoo group Friendly Stitchers ( a great group that I really enjoy!) so I pulled her out and put in a couple threads. The progress isn't noticable from the last picture I took so I didn't bother taking another one. I did enjoy working on her though so maybe I'll do a bit more on her this weekend. Here is my last progress pic of Woodland Fairy, just so there is at least 1 stitching picture on this post LOL

I only have 2 UFO's and they are both Teresa Wentzler designs. The Woodland Fairy and Stroke Of Midnight (Cinderella). I love her designs, but they are complicated and take a lot of attention to keep from making major mistakes. The end results are fabulous and worth all the aggravation of stitching them (at least I think so). Here is a picture of The Guardian, a gold dragon of hers that I did. The border (an intricate Celtic Knotwork pattern) didn't get stitched because I damaged the fabric, but the dragon itself is just gorgeous!

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I then pulled out the Quaker for a short while and added the letter "B b" to the alphabet at the top of the page and graphed the change in year from 2006 to 2010. I didn't take a picture of this either, sorry.

On Sunday I will be rotating back to the Quaker and before I do I will take pictures of Christmas Dreams and Woodland Fairy to show my progress.

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