Calories Don't Count At Christmas WIP as of 1st Jan 2O13...

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This project is so cute!!! My Mum bought it for me for Christmas from the Works, it came with everything you needed to get on with it straight away ~ chart, aida fabric and threads. However I looked at the chart and there are a lot of stitches and back stitch that would pierce and split the aida blocks (stitching on aida is NOT for me) so I swapped out the fabric and am stitching on some evenweave  

However I am well impressed with:

1) the quality of the threads included 

&& 2) the aida (if you were to use it) is hemmed around the edges to stop fraying...some more expensive kits don't even do that to the fabric they include!!!

&&& 3) the chart includes DMC conversion at the bottom for all the thread colours!!! FAB!!!

So I started stitching on the 3Oth of December and here's where I got to:

I have used some Kreinik fine braid in an iridescent pearl colour along with the white in the candy canes to give a bit of sparkle (it doesn't show in the photo though!) *insert sad face here*

You all know me, I've already been missing out some stitches and changing bits to suit me. Some of the writing (especially the O of "count" ~ look at the top picture, looks like two U's right???) it didn't look right on the chart so I amended it slightly to make it look better. Sometimes I think you do have to have been stitching quite a while if you want to tackle one of these kits, as sometimes the charts aren't the best and you do have to change some things about! I think if you're a new stitcher then the instructions aren't the clearest and sometimes the oddities of the chart may put you off ~ but if you're like me and have been stitching forever (well on and off since I was 8) then you'll tackle anything and modify it to suit you 

I hope you like my new project ~ it's stitching up quite quickly (although I have had to order some more Kreinik) so hopefully it'll be a quick finish and I can frame/finish it off in a cute way for it to be displayed next Christmas...and I totally agree with the caption "Calories Don't Count at Christmas" 

Here is my progress today (the 1st of January)...

Note the lack of icing on the right hand cupcake ~ I'm awaiting my Kreinik delivery!!! Should be here soon I reckon...I ordered it yesterday from Donna - website is here: http://www.cross-stitch-heaven.co.uk/ and have had an email to say my order is processing ~ Donna's usually dead quick but I'm not in a hurry anyway!!!

If you've read today's blog then thank you so much & Merry New Year...

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Patchwork Santa Finished 23rd December 2O12...

YAY!!! He's finally done...woopwoop!!!

Now to either make him into a bell pull or cushion...

What next??? I think I might do a penguin for me...

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and fabulous New Year!!!

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WIP Coral Addiction Progress as of 19/09/12...

Progress up to 19th September ~ 6 pages done...I have 3 pages at the top and 3 pages at the bottom to do on this design. The bottom 3 pages are about 10 stitches high...page to the left at the top has about 50 stitches total on it and then the next two are almost full pages...

I'm putting this away now to work on Patchwork Santa ~ hoping to have Coral finished at some point in 2013. I am awaiting a new chart for Patchwork Santa to arrive as I have somehow lost mine somewhere in my house...knowing me I'll have put it somewhere "safe" and it'll turn up as soon as the new one does lol!!!...

Hope you like my progress... 

for looking...

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QS Coral Addiction WIP as of 4th May 2012

Here is my most recent picture of my progress on Coral, this is a picture from the end of March but I forgot to post a picture on here ~ oopsie! So here it is: 

Here was where I was at the last time I posted a progress picture (this picture was taken in mid Feb):

I hope that you like my progress on Coral...I am now working on the page below her chin :0) thanks for looking...

Baby Blanket All Knitted Up & Sewn Together...

Yay...

All knitted up and sewn together...now for a crochet border which I am getting on with today with a bit of help from my Mum. Then we will back the main knitted bulk of the blanket with a fleecy material (it was an old bed sheet which now has a couple of holes - being thrifty & re-using what we've got laying around) and we'll be good to send it to my cousin!!!

I hope you like my blanket now it's all stitched together. Its been a real labour of love and I've enjoyed every moment of my project which is a bit different from the norm that I do!!!

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5X5 blanket all stitched up...

I've so far knitted enough squares to make a 5X5 blanket...and I've stitched it together...here it is:

I have made a slight change in my design - I am no longer making it 7X9 but instead 7X7 with a crocheted border...I do have a photo of almost all my knitted squares for my 7X7 blanket but as yet I have not stitched together the outer squares...(as you can probably tell)

I have (as you can see from the photo) another 6 squares to knit, then I can start stitching my outer layer of squares onto the 5X5 blanket...then I'll almost be done...only the crocheted border to do...I'm very excited!!!

Thanks for looking if you have done. I should be finished my blanket this week maybe? Then I can go back onto the HAED...

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Middle of Baby Blanket

I have finished all the middle squares for the blanket...
My cousin gave birth to a baby girl on the 12th & her name is Abby...
So I have got another shade of pink and I am making the majority of the blanket in cream and pink BUT wanted to use the other blue and pink squares as didn't want to waste them...

So here is the centre of the blanket as it stands at the moment...

I hope you like my progress so far...

I have another 16 cream and pink squares that I haven't photographed yet...
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*sulks*

I've got a virus and I'm a poorly girl at the moment :0( it sucks because I don't have the energy to do anything. NOT even stitch :0( that is really nasty because I could've got loads acheived on Friday, today and over the weekend. All I want to do is sleep though :0(  this is exactly how I feel right now!!! >>>

BEFORE I got poorly I have been working on this - John Clayton's American Smooth.                                                                                  >>>

This is for my Mum's Christmas present :0) I'm quite proud of my progress so far...

<<< this is how much I have done in just a few days. I might see what I feel like tomorrow and attempt some more. BUT I don't want to try and do some and go wrong and then spend my next session at it frogging the mistakes I did when I was poorly. That would definitely NOT be fun!!! It is a nice design because each symbol for stitches is either a plain colour or two different colours combined called 'tweeding'. This means every section that I am looking at has a different 'feel' to it and some of the depth and detail in the colours is created by stitching with one strand of one colour and one strand of another at the same time (hope that makes sense!) I am really enjoying the work that I am putting into it. The reason why I chose this design to do is that the dancer looks a bit like my Mum when she was younger and she used to do ballroom dancing so I think it'll remind her a bit of those days which will be nice. Whether she'll have any place to hang this design is another matter but hey it's the thought that counts!!! I need to do something for me next - HOWEVER my HAED is for meee but I haven't worked on that in a while...maybe I need to get that out and see if I can put a few more stitches in that or it'll end up a UFO!!!

CURRENTLY my HAED stands at this:

With no stitches placed in it since May time. Perhaps I should make an effort with this project tomorrow if I feel up to it - we'll see! 

Thanks for reading this (if you did) and I hope you like my current project for my Mum, I will really try to put some more stitches into it this week and post another update!!!

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Mum's Apron...second set of photos :0)

Here it is as of just now ...finished the teddy and his BS! few cupcakes and colourful bits still left to do though!

I am happy so far, it is growing quickly...
Here are some new photos -

I hope you like it so far now I've stitched a tiny bit more
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Mum's Apron...

Mum told me she wanted an apron for xmas - for when she is doing Sunday dinner/baking. So an apron she is getting!!! ;0)...I found one on 123stitch.com that has an aida band running through it.

The design I am stitching on there is of a bear saying 'Too Much Of A Good Thing Is...Delicious' and with some cupcakes near by. My Mum loves her food & is always commenting 'too much of a good thing y'know!' so it is perfect.

Although might need to find some more designs to stitch on it as it is quite a long aida band :0/...

Here's how I have got on after 1 evening of stitching (about 2 or 3 hours)



I shall keep you updated as and when I do some more!!!
Off for a bath now...;0)...
xXx

3 New Cards and 1 Gift Tag...

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I am really pleased with how all of these turned out. Only 2 more cards to complete now. 1 for my parents and 1 for my boyfriend. Might get started on them tonight...here are my recent 3 I just finished last night!!!




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First post :0)...

Hehe! This is my first post - check out my webshots here - http://community.webshots.com/user/sandz2710

At the moment I am making Christmas related designs for Christmas Cards...here are a few of them...





...that's it for now :0) I'll add more later...