Kate's Quilting (and other arty stuff): Cross stitch update

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Cross stitch update

Lots of progress this week - nearly all of the background is filled in (not quite), so then there will just be the long stitching on the top, and then the border. It's nice to know it won't take me that many more weeks to finish this one off.

4 comments:

Needled Mom said...: That looks so pretty. I love seeing your work.; 1:41 am
Lynne said...: Looking good!; 4:04 am
pam said...: So lovely, can't wait to see the finished product.; 2:43 pm
Kandi said...: It's coming along really well. Looking forward to seeing the finished article! Xx; 4:48 pm

What I've been reading 2012-2013

The Girl you Left Behind, Jojo Moyes
Finding Mr Flood, Ciara Geraghty
Spindle's End, Robin McKinley
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O'Farrell
Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris (re-read)
Venetia, Georgette Heyer (re-read)
Mary Reilly, Valerie Martin
The Land of Decoration, Grace McCleen
The Peach Keeper, Sarah Addison Allen
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of her own Making, Catherynne M Valente (March 2013)
The Distance Between Us, Maggie O'Farrell
Cross Bones, Kathy Reichs
Of Mice & Men, John Steinbeck (re-read)
The Pirate King, Laurie R King
Watership Down, Richard Adams (re-read)
The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
Guard your Daughters, Diana Tutton
The 19th Wife, David Eberhoff (Feb 2013)
Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams, Jenny Colgan
Appointment with Death, Agatha Christie (re-read)
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, Agatha Christie (re-read)
The Book of Summers, Emylia Hall
The Road Home, Rose Tremain
The Story Sisters, Alice Hoffman
Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor
The Third Child, Marge Piercy (half)
Crazy as Chocolate, Elizabeth Hyde
Homeland, Clare Francis
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Helen Simonson (half)
Daughter of China, Xu Meihong (January 2013)
The Promise of Rain, Donna Milner
The Story of Beautiful Girl, Rachel Simon
Lies, Enrique De Heriz
Lick Creek, Brad Kessler
Clara and Mr Tiffany, Susan Vreeland
What I Loved, Siri Hustvedt
The Lighthouse, Alison Moore
Juxtaposition, Piers Anthony (re-read)
The Attenbury Emeralds, Jill Paton Walsh
Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
Blue Adept, Piers Anthony (re-read)
The Red Queen, Margaret Drabble
Noah's Ark, Barbara Trapido
The Convenient Marriage, Georgette Heyer (re-read)
Split Infinity, Piers Anthony (re-read)
Great House, Nicole Krauss
The Return of Captain John Emmett, Elizabeth Speller
Bleeding Heart Square, Andrew Taylor
The Memory Stones, Kate O'Riordan
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, Tom Franklin
The Case of the Imaginary Detective, Karen Joy Fowler
The Woman Who Died a Lot, Jasper Fforde
Keeping the World Away, Margaret Forster (pbg Aug 12)
The St Zita Society, Ruth Rendell
Fixing Shadows, Susan Barrett
Taft, Ann Patchett
Your Blue-Eyed Boy, Helen Dunmore
The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney
Monay Mourning, Kathy Reichs
La Cucina, Lily Prior
Death Comes to Pemberley, PD James
Persuasion, Jane Austen (re-read)
Excellent Women, Barbara Pym (pbg July 12)
State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
Beyond Black, Hilary Mantel
The Underground Man, Mick Jackson
The White Woman on a Green Bicycle, Monique Roffey (part)
Stones for my Father, Trilby Kent (teen)
The Red House, Mark Haddon
State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
Star of the Sea, Joseph O'Connor
Aria, Susan Segal
The Fourth Hand, John Irving (part)
Bare Bones, Kathy Reichs
Labyrinth, Kate Mosse
The Post-Birthday World (half), Lionel Shriver
Notes from an Exhibition, Patrick Gale
The Magician's Assistant, Ann Patchett
Jamrach's Menagerie, Carol Birch
Me Before You, Jojo Moyes
False Colours (reread), Georgette Heyer
Blue Water, Manette Ansay
Abhorsen (jfic, reread), Garth Nix
Lirael (jfic, reread), Garth Nix
Sabriel (jfic, reread), Garth Nix
Ashes (jfic), Ilsa J Bick
Island of Bones, Imogen Robertson
The Weird Sisters, Eleanor Brown
The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
Grave Secrets, Kathy Reichs
An Invisible Sign of My Own, Aimee Bender
The Sugar Queen, Sarah Addison Allen
The Amnesia Clinic, James Scudamore
Fatal Voyage, Kathy Reichs
Good Things I Wish You, Manette Ansay
The Song House, Trezza Azzopardi
These Old Shades, Georgette Heyer (re-read)
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender
His Dark Materials Trilogy, Philip Pullman (re-read)
Five People you Meet in Heaven, Mitch Ablom
The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler
The End of Everything, Megan Abbott
Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen
Started Early, Took my Dog, Kate Atkinson
Dragonharper Trilogy, Anne McCaffrey (re-read)
The Girl of his Dreams, Donna Leon
The Somnambulist, Essie Fox
Becoming Jane Eyre, Sheila Kohler
The Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins
Day of the Bees, Thomas Sanchez
The Sea Change, Elizabeth Jane Howard
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs
Sleep Toward Heaven, Amanda Eyre Ward
The Prince of Mist, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Hand that First Held Mine, Maggie O'Farrell (pbg, Feb 12)
Girl Reading, Katie Ward
The Death Instinct, Jed Rubenfeld
The Travelling Horn Player, Barbara Trapido (re-read, pbg Jan 12)
Saving Fish from Drowning, Amy Tan
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
The Finkler Question, Howard Jacobson
Dark Assassin, Anne Perry

Hypothetical playlist (what songs I might be listening to right now)

Rolling in the Deep (Adele)
Never Going Back Again (Fleetwood Mac)
Drumming Song (Florence and the Machine)
Starlings (Elbow)
Dance me to the end of love (Leonard Cohen)
How to Save a Life (The Fray)
Dream Catch Me (Newton Faulkner)
Marlene on the Wall (Suzanne Vega)
Hey There Delilah (Plain White Tees)
Scarlet Begonias (Grateful Dead)
The Obvious Child (Paul Simon)
Til the Sun Turns Black (Ray La Montagne)
Rehab (Amy Winehouse)
Moondance (Van Morrisson)
Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen)
New Shoes (Paolo Nutini)
Mrs Potter's Lullaby (Counting Crows)
Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
Late Night Radio (Mary Black)
Town Called Malice (Paul Weller/Jam)
Once in a Lifetime (Talking Heads)
When you were Young (the Killers)
In the Morning (Razorlight)
Nettie Moore (Dylan)
Caravan of Love (Housemartins)
Chelsea Dagger (Fratellis)
Ziggy Stardust (Bowie)
America (Razorlight)
Under the Bridge (RHCP)
I Try (Macy Gray)
Many Rivers to Cross (UB40)
River (Joni Mitchell)
Fragile (Sting)
Tangled up in Blue (Dylan)
Chasing Cars (Snowpatrol)
Anna Begins (Counting Crows)
Long Black Veil (Dave Matthews Band)
To Lay me Down (Cowboy Junkies)
Yellow (Coldplay)

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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Cross stitch update

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