Cross Stitch Update - Finished!

Well, this needs ironing, obviously, but the stitching is done. It's astonishing how quickly you can actually finish something when you spend time working on it...  I've got a new piece which has a Christmas theme, which I'm actually going to start now, but I do also want to carry on working on another piece in progress, The Alice in Wonderland piece.  I might alternate one week on and one week off, or might work on both of them through a week, not really sure. Guess it will depend on what catches my fancy. But I'm definitely going to make a point to stitch at least a little almost every night. Watch this space.

Cross Stitch Update

So, I've actually been doing a bit of cross-stitch lately - I have worked on this piece a bit over the past year or so, but only once or twice a month, rather than almost nightly. Lately, I've been trying to be better about stitching in the evening while watching telly rather than just being on my phone - it's tempting, especially when one is tired, to just sit and veg. Anyway, this piece is nearly done - there's a bit of the left border to do, then the bottom left corner of that centre bit and another planter like the one on the right. And a few little bits, like there is a spacer symbol of some sort between the states' names. But it shouldn't take much longer to finish, especially if I keep up the nightly work. 

Here's the last photo I can find of it - but I've certainly added quite a bit since this photo was taken, before this week - for instance, most of the state names have been done for quite a while. 

Cross Stitch Update

Not much progress, though I did finish the plant pot, stitch a bit of a border under it, and begin the lettering.  Perhaps I'll be home in the evenings more next week (don't hold your breath). 

Cross Stitch Update

Not a lot of progress made, though I did get most of this basket of flowers stitched. Given how many nights I was out this week, it's not too surprising!  Next week won't be much better, between friends in town from the US, Jesus Christ Superstar in the theatre, Sarah's birthday and no doubt other things!

Cross Stitch Update

Not very much stitched this week for one reason and anothre. And next week, not sure what I will show as I got the next part of my little LizzieKate mystery in the post and am going to stitch on that!

Cross Stitch Update

This week, I've been working on the Thirteen Colonies piece again - this time, the bottom right corner, although I did stitch all the way around the brown border, to make it easier for myself. This central part is very dense, so it takes a while to stitch, even though it's quite a small area. The border goes more quickly, and of course there is some lettering on this quarter of the piece, unlike the top two sections. However, next week will be something else (smaller) as I am away for a few days and this one is too big to take along with me...

Cross Stitch Update

Good progress this week; I stitched the outside border all the way down to the middle (the pattern is in four pieces and I am working on one quarter at a time), and filled in some small bits which needed filling in. Just barely made a start on the bottom left quarter, but no serious progress there yet.

Cross Stitch Update

Finished this up (and the colour is much truer in the photo above, which is nice).

And worked a little on this - not much, but I did finish the flower... Back to the thirteen colonies this week, hopefully I will get more done on it, though it's a busy week again, with lots of extra things thrown in...

Cross Stitch Update

Finished this one off this week (as I got the missing darker pink colour in the post) - colour is truer in the bottom photo - I should never take photos indoors at night, clearly.

Also worked a little on this - the "before" photo is not the most recent photo of the centre part, but it's the most recent one I have showing the border, which is where the work I did took place. 

And finally, I started on this, which is the second of the Three Little Words series of which the top piece is the first. I do like stitching words!

Cross Stitch Update

Finished this - not surprising, as it was mostly the border. Still need to sew on a few buttons and mount it on the felt, but that will happen a little later. 

So I went back to this piece, which I'd been a bit reluctant to tackle lately (tired, and too much potential for counting wrong and making a mistake) - got a bit finished in the lower right corner - not a huge amount but at least I'm back in the swing of the piece a bit. Plan to work on this one in the coming week, and then perhaps swap out to something else for a week. We'll see. It's all in good fun anyway - no point doing it if it stresses me!

Cross Stitch Update

A bit more progress than last week, though still not huge amounts - the main issue of course is that the centre part is very dense, so it doesn't look like a lot of progress, even when it is. That and the fact that quite a few evenings, I haven't really felt like stitching...

Cross Stitch Update

A very little progress - mostly due to being tired in the evening due to being out in the day time (and a few times, out in the evening). 

Cross Stitch Update

A little progress made - haven't been stitching much lately for whatever reason, so there's not a huge amount of progress - Still, it's better than nothing. 

Cross Stitch Update

Not a lot of progress this week, as you can see, although I have begun to work my way into the second quarter - however, I did manage to get a quilt binding done (photos tomorrow), so that should count for something. I'll work on this one again next week as I haven't really done much with it this week...

Cross Stitch Update

Finished the outer border in the first quarter this week, and have moved on to the next quarter, though I'm going to pull out an older piece and do some work on that next week, so it will be another week before I get back to this piece...

Cross Stitch Update

Didn't get as much stitched this week, as I took several evenings to stitch down the binding on Becky's quilt. But there's still progress. Lots of leaves and star shaped flowers to stitch in that outer border, but it won't be too long before I can move on to another quarter of the chart...

Cross Stitch Update

Making some progress, as you can see - the pattern for this piece comes in four parts, which is why I've stopped in such a seemingly odd place - but in order to avoid the whole switching awkwardly back and forth between paper pieces thing, I'll probably go ahead and stitch it one quarter at a time. The border is fairly quick going, though the centre part was fairly dense to stitch. But that's ok - it's not that large. And the bottom half has loads of lettering, which stitches up fairly quickly.

Cross Stitch Update

Finished up the Starlight Sampler - only a little of that to go - and started a couple of new things to keep me busy.  A bigger piece, this Thirteen Colonies Sampler

by Little House Needleworks - you can see it on their blog here, the first item on the Americana page. 

And this is just a little piece - a tree with a bird - the green leaves don't really show that well on this linen (despite being the precise colours called for in the pattern in both linen and threads), but I think it will show better when finished - and of course, in person in proper light it's somewhat better.