O' Jerusalem

Finally, some real progress to report. I've finished the second page - well, except for the bit of Jesus that I'll do later.

Mystical Light and O' Jerusalem

I have changed my UFO night piece from O' Jerusalem to Mystical Light so that I can work on O' Jerusalem more often in order to get it finished this year.

Here are updates on the two pieces.

I'm hoping to get a chance to start the Cityscapes Hearts that I signed up to do soon as the last class is getting closer and it would be nice to have actually made progress by then. Still, it won't be the end of the world if I don't manage to do so.

O' Jerusalem

Thought it was about time for an update on this. Here it is after tonights stitching.

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.

O Jerusalem

I thought it might be about time I posted another picture of the progress on my UFO:

O' Jerusalem

Here is the latest progress on this. I have now finished the first symbol. Not the first colour as it's also there in a single strand and as a blend, but at least I've done one symbol.

O' Jerusalem

I'm posting another progress picture on this. It is slowly getting somewhere. I now have a bit of counting to do to get to the next block of the colour I'm working on - I think I will be jumping the big rock that Jesus is sitting on (or at least that's what the black and white symbols on the chart look like I'll be doing).

O' Jerusalem

Here is the latest progress on this after last nights UFO stitching:

O' Jerusalem

And the latest on O' Jerusalem.

O' Jerusalem

I've joined a UFO night and so this one is actually getting some attention now. The idea is that once a week we'll all stitch on a UFO and then report on our progress to the rest of the group with before and after photos.

O' Jerusalem

I did put some stitches in this. Honest. I'm determined to finish it, so I've put it back on some scroll rods (the right way around this time - I had it sideways when I first started it) and I'm going to work on it.