Stitching Diva

so most of you would not be surprised to know i am lusting over certain charts..

a definate is one i have been eyeing off since Tracey blogged it..
croakworth …. i love frogs incase anyone had forgotten

whilst on the inkcircles page i also want to point out this lovely chart from AAN.. which touches the little greenie in me.. Madre terra but i think that might need to go in the futures basket

another definate for me is the Carina spot sampler.. i have worked out withthe exception of The Beatrix potter sampler i am not really a quaker motif person and prefer spot sampler motifs more in general, and martina does lovely ones..
Carina is one i have wanted since she put it in her blog months ago it is 401 x 401 in size.. how cool is that ( yes i know i have issues don’t i )

another on the to track down later is this one from Keslyns.. i am intrigued by it, but i want to see a better picture a close up Stitchers Web
as is this one.. i like the simplicity of the design and i would like to make another bourse without having to work out the design to go in it.. Celtic Thunder

I have already requested this one from Janine , klast week.. i am not normally a christmas sttiching fan, but i really like this one for some reason.. On the twelfth Day
but the store that got me most hot under the collar  ( apart form craokworth and carina) was a needlepoint store.. i know, like i need to add needlepoint to my obsessions.. but there were DRAGONFLIES , bright beautiful dragonflies, and bright celtic knots and and and….
i can’t afford any of them really given i have had 4 aborted attempts at needlepoint in my time… so chances of me doing anything with the kit would be remote, but LOOK  especially tiffany dragonfly and delicate dragon flies, but also if you go to her site you will see other pretties i loved

i also liked rovaris paula look at their actual website for the kitty charts i was mentioning.. i liked more on their actual site than what they had at the needlework show, some nice cats, hearts and alphabet charts, but also spme cool soft toy cat patterns etc..

oh and one more paula thing.. sweetie when i saw this i thought of you… the picture is better at abcstitch i might add.. Bear cub

a source of irritation right now is , i can’t find 2 charts for the scavenger hunt thing.. i have been through TWICE.. obviously i am suffereing from my age old problem.. easily distracted…

and a picture of my norty new start.. this frogging thing is out of hand i sttich an hour frog an hour sttich an hour frog an hour… so i started the new Martina Day sampler mystery it is a spot sampler
i am sttiching it on HDF undyed 35 ct linen 1×1 of course and using the full range of suepurple silks from hdf as well including some varigates it is a 1 page a week sampler, i doubt i will keep up , but at least i have made a start this is page 1

and the tale of woe and misery which is heritage de lettres..
see the beautiful graceful Q… in the lovely LE pink Grapefruit… it is in the WRONG spot… mumble mumble grump..
now i have scaned it i have to frog it.. next time you see the q it will be a different colour… i will use the pink grapefruit ofr something else now…
and the F is being done in Acts of Violets… yum.. the start of the S is in a LE aquamarine series spool i got as a mystery spool, the L is in my fav yellow silk colour.. seasilk  and the pretty pink bit will be the letter R it is winterberried

whilst i feel anything but serene today  ( trolls ) i thought it a good time to try and create some serenity by posting my precious serenity sampler

mind you this piece nearly defeated me last week..

for what ever reason i came across a mofif i could not stitch…

i could stitch about 10 stites and then have to wander off and do something took me about 4 days to stitch it, and then the next one which was bigger took me one day..
that has happened to me before.. when i suddenly hit a motif in a sampler that just defeats me… and i go so slow it is ridiculous.. anyone else ever experience this or is it another of those special fudgey traits?

so anyway the short version of this is.. i am one motif short of what i usualy do in each serenity rotation pout..

Mum saw it for the first time on the weekend and she thinks it is the best thing i have ever stitched.. in general my mum does not get my stitching at all, so that was a rare surprise.. i don’t do much my mum is ever impressed by
a reminder 1×1 on 35 count using hdf silks conversion for the Martina Dey sampler Serenity

for a bigger image click HERE
the rogue motif was the bottom right light green one.. the one i did in a day was the mid gren one diagonal to the right above it…  bizarre i tell you!

In other random chat… my comissioned piece froMichele Lee Phelan arrived and it is lovely.. many of youwill be surprised by the colours but when she did a sketch , it became clear the only colours that would suit her would be autumn ones.. so now i have an autumn coloured original aceo form Michele!

I love her work , she is so at one with nature and the environment in general.. i am sad she is not interested in having her work licensed for  charted, but i respect her reasons why. Every year i try and treat myself to one of her comissioned pieces.. her wonderful work can be found here…
Dreams of Gaia and my precious little aceo can be seen Autumnal Dryad

I now own Cirques de Triangles ( inkcircles ) now too. janine is having a 15% off sale for spring and well i just had to order it…. Colours down Under

and it would seem a lot of people want to get this Black lace chart started..
hmm might be time to get a coordinated sal of some sort started…

edited to add…

OH WOW!!!!!

i just looked on papillion Creations after posting this i love this new design.. Cotillion
Soo many possibilities/……

This is my new Finish AMAP Alphabet tree freebie ( beware looking atthe charts… it is easy to spend money here as we all know) When i saw this freebie on Friday i immediately emailed it to paul to be printed ( i have no ink,……)
and started it on Saturday, it was such a fun , fast stitch i had it done by last night ( sunday night)
yes it is bright, i wanted to create a tree that would have lived in The Enchanted Forest, i think my tree is enchanted….
i used the wonderful new LE Black/double deep purple/double midnight velvet silk from hdf for the trunk and branches ( see my letter N off my heritage lettres sampler below for a better look at how well this stitches up)
i also used the lovely discontinued holly leaves for the leaves and my precious LE zinnia goldrush mix for the alphabet ( paul picked that colour i had been going to use hot pink ) it is stitched on the wonderful 35 ct undyed linen from HDF 1×1 of course…

AMAP freebie Alphabet tree stitched on HDF 35 ct linen 1x1 using HDF silks

and a better look at this lovely dark toned silk using my letter N as a model…again 1×1 on HDF 35 ct linen

1x1 on 35 ct linen using woad blue series form HDF