Coronation

Coronation is now finished. It is so sparkly, it is wonderful. I tried to get the sparkles to show in the photo, but as always, real life wins.

Coronation

I'm getting so close on this now. Just the background to fill in with the 4-way filler stitch. I've done the first small section, but there's still a reasonable amount to go. But once it's done - so is the ornament.

I'm also going to have to clean up the back a bit - I tried very hard to be good and not carry threads across the back of open canvas - but I got a bit sloppy in places and here and there I can see a silver or gold peeping through where it isn't supposed to.

I am hoping to get this finished by the 15th when I have class through the SNS called Desert Diamonds starting up and I really want to keep up with the class. Really looking forward to it too.

Coronation

And Coronation:

Coronation

This one is looking good - another page done - I love these quick pages (lol):

Coronation

I've done a couple more pages on this now. I'm putting up a couple of photos as the first one the colour is more accurate, but the second shows the progress I've made (a whole four more stitches - but that was one page of the pattern).

Coronation

Here's a bit more work on this:

Coronation

And Coronation. Last weekend I went on a stitchy weekend, and apart from a gift (that I actually started at the GTG last year, but hardly worked on inbetween) I mostly stitched on this. It was a really enjoyable stitch, and so far I've found it really easy and effective. Hopefully I'll get this back on the stand and finished soon.

Coronation

Last night I stitched again on Coronation. It's coming along well, I've just got to figure out the right length of thread for the Sprat's Heads - I got it almost right, I did manage to get all the way to the other side, just not quite enough to complete that stitch. Only thing was I forgot to measure how much I'd used so it'll still be a guessing game for the next side.

Coronation

Finally - I have got going on the first of the Jim Wurth Dodecagon Ornaments. So here is the start of Coronation.

Bits and pieces

I got my first Jim Wurth Dodecagon ornament (Coronation) this week along with his Bargello 2025 design (if you want to see a picture of this I think you need to join the Yahoo group (Coronation is the middle of the three ornaments shown on the homepage), although Pierrette has a slideshow of her finished ornaments in her December 22 '08 post - she also has a lot of other lovely work there - it's a blog well worth visiting). I've also signed up for the Cyber-pointers chapter of the ANG, so there are lots of fun things going on there too.

I'm going to have to start stitching faster though I think to get done everything I want to do, and I really haven't done much this month - far too busy playing World of Warcraft. I have managed to keep stitching a little bit each week on my UFO (O' Jerusalem), but everything else has hardly any progress, not that O' Jerusalem has much progress, but at least it's doing something.

My Bug Collector I'm still working on the ladybug row (row 2 - the SAL is up to week/row 5) - the instructions say you don't need to backstitch and just put random french knots on as dots, but I've decided I like the look of the backstitch, and I'm also putting in backstitch to mark the wings and head (i.e. a 'Y' shape) and then two spots sort of random on each wing. I find it hard to do random french knots as they always seem to end up following the holes in the fabric, and when the bug is only 4 stitches across it doesn't leave much room for random.

I really want to start the Jim Wurth ornament soon as it is a series of 12 and I'd love to be able to keep up with them as they are sent out (one every two months) - I'm getting the kits too so I've got no excuses about not having materials. I'm just trying to work out when to squeeze them in. There are some other classes I want to sign up for as well that will need some time from me.

I still can't post photos as the server is waiting for some part. Hopefully there might actually be something worth posting (I guess there is bug collector, haven't shown that yet) by the time it's fixed.