Stitching Diva

i wavered whether to show this or not..
as it doesn’t look like much, even though i have stitched and stitched and stitched
the left hand reeds are 99% done, the water around the pad is half done and the pad has been started, the bright blue starting on the pad is another frog foot to match the one i have already done… Colours are all a bit washed out as people who own the fugue blues will be able to atest as it is a lot brighter that froggie foot IRL an d the fab is a lot greener

stitched 1x1 on Stitches and Spice Bush Morning 28 ct Jobelan and HDF silks Artist Myrea Petit

and a bigger pic HERE

I am now taking a week to do a bit of personal stitching for my Nephew Amos.. when he saw this pic on the Laptop he was besotted and the universal opinion was it was him to a T..
So i will be stitching Ferocious Beastie By Arelate Studio … Nancy Spies He will be stitched 1×1 with the HDF Silk Brights, but he will be bright blue not red and i will put Amos’s name above it and make it into a door sign for his bedroom door
I would like to really give Nancy a big rap here as she only charged me $2.00 for postage to Australia.. When most USA sellers are trying to make us pay ridiculous amounts for 1 chart ( one company dared to ask for $12 usd FOR ONE CHART TO BE POSTED) and her emails were delightful…

hopefully in a week i will have two small finishes to show you!!

and new chart lust… this one is the next in my obsessions .. yes i know i have heaps of chart obsessions ( as my wishlist will show lol)

 Language of Flowers by Rosewood Manor  I am glad i had not started A Garden Grew as i like this one more

I just wanted to share a few very colourful pictures with you.. whilst my shoulder has been bad i had to just do straight sampler ish type sttiching with my right hand…
i never realised how important my 2 handed sttiching was for haed sttiching!

I started Sampler Cove’s Taking Flight… mentioned in an earlier post
I knew what fabric and what main colour…
Vikki’s limited edition pale pink linen 35 ct  from her LOTM ( this months) and an enchanter rose combo of the darkest three enchanter roses , but the other colour was a mystery to me.. i tested 5 , and the two favs i asked peoples opinions on the hdf board… Vikki, sharon and Vicky being trouble makers reckoned i should use both…
the jury is still out on that for me , but i decided to do the first full row of Butterflies before making a decision..
so i welcome peoples feedback… Blue, Green, or both??

Designed by Sampler Cove 1x1 on 35 ct linen

HERE is a bigger pic… the green is greener , the blue is bluer

Next is a little sampler i whipped up to go in a show off pen…
it was sort of a tester for some of the colours i have been creating in silks
stitched 1×1 on 35 ct 

my design, 1x1 on 35 ct using HDF silks

and next is the latest colour i created and the start of my big wild colours sampler…. after thinking i would be doing it as a quaker i changed my mind and am doing a sort of quaker motif plus bands sampler…. some how.. i have ideas in my head, but what comes out on the fab is a mystery!

2241-43/6111-13 silk combo 1x1 on 35 ct linen

yes Sonya the purples are the Sue purples.. i have been playing

just a quick little update to share my latest wip pic of this sampler…
i did not get as far a s i hoped , as i alluded to in my last post my neck and shoulder/shoulder blade are really bothering me… the lot of a fibromyalgia suferer i guess.. thank goodness it is not in my ankle/knee  at the moment.. that is usually where i have unexpected random increases in pain ..

or headaches , so really slower stitching and more knitting is not the end of the world

so anyway all the top section minus beads and a bit of associated backstitching has been done, i will not bead unti l the end so i am not bugging paul for too many pictures

jingle bells christmas tree farm sampler wip by Victoria sampler

sorry the pic is a bit small, i have terrible trouble making things fit …

…… but a knitting not an xstitch finish..
This is the first of two scarves i am knitting for Michele

this one is a neckwarmer pattern from Knitchicgrace  called Mari which i extended to a scarf, it is an itty bitty skinny scarf perfect for scarf layering,
it is knitted in a 4ply wool /cashmere blend from The Knittery , currently closed, which was part of my xmas present from sharon… hope you like what i did with it sharon…

4 ply cashmere/wool pattern by knitchicgrace

sorry the pic is a bit weird… and not quite the right colour , it is sort of more soft and misty looking

this is the next one to be knitted… Rosebud neck warmer also from knitchicgrace it will be knitted in a lovely colour of jitterbug wool ( from colinette)

i bought 5 balls of alpaca yarn , 3 in 8 ply and 2 in 5 ply …. i am in love with alpacas … i want one for the back yard….

As i have been hinting at my stitching mojo is very much absent at the moment so the updates are a bit slow at the moment

Here is Carley.. i had to physically rip myself away from trying to reach the same volume as i would once have sttiched in a week,  i love how the fugue and chrysocolla blue colours are stitching up to the bottom left…

just to recap i am stitching her on 28 ct angels wings jobelan from Stitches and Spice using HDF silks 1×1

art by Jo Lynch , stitched 1x1 with hdf on 28 ct jobelan

here is also the first look at Fairy Charity a HAED chart form Myrea Pettit’s gorgeous artwork…
there isn’t much to see atm as i was testing the fabric to make sure the colour was ok with the lovley soft tones of the artwork , it looks wonderful irl but a little light on the scan..
it is stitched on 28 ct jobelan from Stitches and Spice in a shade called Bush Morning using HDF silks

art by Myrea pettit

a big thankyou to the special fairy who sent me Metta , i am very spoiled as i have been gifted some lovely charts in recent months , and then another fairy saved me by sending an hdf voucher , just when i needed it most!! so thankyou all my special friends i am way way in to your debt

My dilemma is which one of Metta or Taking Flight ( which is on its way ) to start…
as i was saying to my fairy who gifted me Metta… i really do not know what colour to sttich it…
i have drawn a blank

Taking flight i more or less have the colours in my mind

and a final thought about silks..
red fans check out vikki’s new red .. beredded… it is stunning, you can get it on the front page , but scroll down in
this forum post  to see a stunning picture of it ( second picture ) and i created a new colour.. fudgue blue/suepurple and black … vikki says the finished product looks like Old Maid Of the Abyss … see pic below on steroids … which sounds pretty cool to me… it is avaialbale to order if such a colour appeals to you… just click here if you like SSR silk

Old Maid of the Abyss sample

oops edited to add…. i also knitted half a lace scarf…….