Happily Ever After

Is finished.

I still think that perhaps it needs something beside the main words as compared to the rest that section seems empty. But I have no idea what, nothing in the pattern would fit, and I'm not about to destroy it by coming up with something myself.

So here it is:

Now I just need to send it overseas and figure out framing. I think I have it worked out - just need to send a few emails and see if I can do what I want.

The bug is back

After a break from stitching - partly caused by moving, partly caused by general blahs - I think I'm back to wanting to stitch again. Note: this doesn't mean there will be lots of finishes to show - there's far more likely to be lots of starts :D

But there is at least one finish to show you - DD's jumper (along with reluctant model). And due to my misreading the pattern I made it a size bigger than I intended - this is probably a good thing as I took two years to knit it. On the other hand she is on the smaller side, so it's still too big on her - but at least it will last until next winter, especially since we managed to miss most of this winter (I only finished it a couple of weeks ago). In some photos you can almost tell the sleeves and hood are a different wool to the body - that's because, once again, I failed to read the pattern properly and didn't see the listing for the number of balls of wool to buy until I'd finished knitting. And of course, when I went back to get more wool after finishing up the body and running out of my initial purchase, that wool was no longer available. Oh well, I managed to get fairly close and you mostly can't tell unless you're looking close.

Then I suppose I should give an update of where I'm up to on the wedding sampler (don't think this will be making the first anniversary either):

I think that was all I was in the (active) middle of doing.

So now some new stuff.

First an Easter basket (designed by Cindy Hambrick):

Halloween Treat (an ANG chapter book project by Marilyn Owen) started 2 weeks ago:

And the ANG class I did just this weekend - Austin Postcard by Denise Derusha:

Now do I correct the spelling of weird or do I keep it wierd?

I also got the Texas postcard so hopefully that will show up sometime soon.

I've also signed up for a number of other classes - somehow the buying bug didn't disappear along with the stitchy one, so who knows, maybe some of them will show up here sometime soon too :) And of course as I unpack my stash boxes (almost got some shelves) I might find other things...

Some finishes and some updates

I've finally been stitching again in the last couple of weeks or so and have some progress to show.

First are a couple of ASG (Austin Stitchery Guild) projects that I started and finished at the meetings - a beaded Christmas Bell, and a patch for the crazy quilt project.

At the Antique Sampler satellite meeting you get a pin for every project you finish and bring for show and tell, so since I finished the bell at that meeting I got my first pin (they provide the pin cushion too):

Now for some progress pictures.

Tree of Stitches:

Happily Ever After (not so happily lagging in progress):

And Stained Glass Sampler:

Progress and new starts

As well as the class I've already posted about I've been doing a bit of other stitching lately. I've made good progress on my Stained Glass Sampler - almost all the 'leadwork' done, just a bit more gold to do:

Next up are a couple of new starts - first for my brothers wedding is Marie Barber's Happily Ever After - I have to thank a wonderful blogger for passing her chart on to me since it's now OOP. Yeah, I know, I need to stitch a bit faster than this if it's to be finished in time.

And for DH's approaching '0' birthday is Sue Hillis' Piracy - it would be going faster except that I'm trying to avoid stitching on it when he's around:

And finally, just for good measure, the latest Lego plane to land here - the Sopwith Camel (it goes nicely with the Fokker DR1 in this post too). There was also a matching small one but I haven't taken a photo of it: