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April was a pretty productive month, I had 2 finishes! So now I have 5 finishes out of 12, so I'm a little bit ahead. Shall we re-cap? Again, this is for Lady Kell's X-Stitching Xmas Challenge. My first finish was a rose coaster in DMC perle and DMC metallics on 8.5 count waste canvas on to ivory felt. I broke 3 needles and it's not an experience I wish to repeat. I think it was the thickness of the threads that caused the issue, but needless to say I will not be using waste canvas again soon.  My second finish...

Here she is! The finishing touches have been added, she was ironed for maybe an hour, although it felt longer.. and she's 100% complete and framed!  I also have some close-ups so you can see the detail. With the mat we were able to leave the glass in, as you can likely tell by the glare, and I think it looks really good this way.  Here are the promised close-ups.  As Joyce suggested, I stitched the strings for the mandolin right before she was stretched and placed on the mounting board. I think it worked really well. They're nice and flat without needing...

I started this subversive band sampler by Lady Kell of Kincavel Krosses last summer. It was for a thank-you for a friend that helped me out a lot when my car broke down 40 minutes from my house. I was away from home for a while and never got the piece entirely finished, and wasn't worried about it too much, knowing I would get back to it eventually. Recently I heard my friend was in the hospital for treatment and evaluation of a possible stroke! So I started back at this piece immediately and finished it up. I just need to...

One of my favourite blogs, Random Ramblings, posted about one of her friends de-stashing and getting rid of a lot of wonderful stash. I picked some gorgeous blue fabrics and an Irish Sampler pattern.  If you'd like to see what else she has for sale, here's the original post from Random Ramblings.  I've been doing a fair amount of stitching lately as well. On the CSF someone brought up stitching 10 hours on something, then switching to another project. I've decided to rotate my projects over stitching sessions. I really need to finish Angelic Melody, so I've been stitching on it every other day...

I completed a small coaster for my Grandma using LK's St Patrick's day chart. I used navy 14 count aida and backed it with a spare piece of the same. Most of the colours are just DMC, but I did use WDW Purple Haze on the bottom right section and WDW Dutch Iris on the lower bird. I hope she likes it! I did mail it out about a week ahead, so with luck it arrived before March 17th.  I have an Easter one by another designer I'd like to start and right now I'm going to start on Lady Kell's Quaker...

Last night I watched our blu-ray version of A Fistful of Dollars and A Few Dollars More and managed to finish my gift. I didn't work as hard on it until the last couple days since it will be received on Saturday (Feb. 4) now instead of this past Sunday (Jan. 29). It was fun to stitch this one, and Kell's charts are always fun to stitch. Also, I had my DMC colors wrong, it was 106 and 67 that I used. I actually used up a whole skein of 106. Without further rambling..   It's 2 over 2 on 28...

At the start of 2011 I signed up for the Crazy January Challenge after hearing some other members of the Cross Stitch Forum (CSF) talk about joining in. I started 15 new projects successfully the first 15 days of January as follows: 1. 2011 sampler by Kell (DONE) 2. Super Mario sampler by carladee (DONE) 3. spiral fractal by skitzz 4., 5. 2 flower coasters free chart by the Cross Stitchers Club (DONE 1) 6. Yellow submarine chart from Pinoy stitch 7. one ornament from Snowflake Elegance Ornaments Gold Collection by Dimensions 8. Angelic Melody Gold Collection by Dimensions 9. Tiger by Janlynn...