New UFO Unearthed.

Well here it is. Did you guess correctly from my taster pic a few weeks ago.? I bet you didn't.
When I started this I couldn't figure out how to hold it so it's a case of taking it out and working it from a different angle.





It could take a bit of doing as it's 42" long although only 9" wide. On the plus side it's just straight colours.

Wish me luck.

Christmas Trees Update

Just a quick post with a little update. Twins are poorly at the moment & I'm just waiting for our Dr to give me a call back.

Thought I'd let you see the small amount of progress that I've made on Christmas Trees. I need to add the backstitch to the gingham tree & thats the 2nd of 5 trees complete. Slow going but at least it's going in the right direction :-)

Sorry about the blurry picture, not sure what happened there!

Lisa xx

Lisa's Stitching Life

Update on Italian Garden, and this month's UFO

November was not a good month, I did a lot of stitching though. If you want to know the backstory visit my blog. At least I managed to get rid of another UFO in the process. There was less left to do than I thought, plus it was good for me to stitch. Liz Turner Diehl's 17th Century Italian Garden is DONE! I added a close-up of the center section cause I love how it turned out, and the couched rings as well. There was supposed to be couched twisted braid in the rectangles above and below the rings (where now you see pink/lavender flowers). I just could NOT get that braid to fit in the figure-8 small spaces, so I "punted" as it were. Shush, don't tell!

This month of December I got out another UFO, Fanta Cat's Dragon Feathers Afghan.

I finished the two top blocks over the weekend, and I have 8 blocks left on the right side until this is also finished...wish me luck!

New member waving hello

Hello everyone!

I'm joining the group as yet another Teresa Wentzler pattern addict. I have a few of her projects which have fallen into UFO-land, and your little community seems like a nice one to share with. :)

I'm focusing on two of the projects at time in my rotation. They both fell off the wheels due to a combination of life insanity from planning my wedding two years ago followed suddenly by DH's mother passing away (and our house becoming cluttered as we went through her things). Both of these have been in UFO land now since 2006. I just started stitching again in October, and I've managed to do 10 hours on each of them so far. Here's the current status (I'll post them individually after this):

Egyptian Sampler:


Floral Bellpull: (everything above this square is done... so I'm on the 4th of 6!)


I'm planning on putting 10 hours of each of them per rotation. Hopefully I'll do them both each month, but in reality, I'll probably get 10 hours done on one or the other every month, as my rotation seems to be a 2-month plan.

Nice to meet you all!

- Measi

Christmas SAL UFO

This is a UFO which I hope to stitch alongside the TW. I have joined Yoyo's SAL and this is one of the items I hope to complete. I started it some years ago but put it down when I wanted to work on some other projects. It has not seen the light of day for some time. I have almost finished the Santa on the right on the top row. It is on quite a small count aida so there is quite a bit of work in each one. The SAL doesn't start until tomorrow so I have another evening on the TW.

Peacock Tapestry

I have made some progress on this because I am waiting for some linen band to arrive so thought best get on with the TW. I have worked on the leaves, which I am finding difficult, the border and the tail which I espected to be a nightmare but in fact it has not been too bad. I know some areas look as though they have measles but this has been to try to use up the blend in my needle. The backstitching would be very difficult but years ago I had some help from Emily. So Emily if by any chance you read this blog many, many thanks. I have now to work out how to wind the fabric down. It seems silly but I have several different frames and it is so long since I used this one, which is excellent, that it will be trial and error to sort it out.

Sail Away . . .

Drum roll ~ please!!!

I have it finally done!

What is it about only having

to put on the charms?

I had it all done except for that.

Sorry about the picture it is fuzzy!

I changed the alphabet

so I had to do some adjusting because of that.

I have my frame and mats already so when I get

a chance I will stretch it and finish framing it.

I am a picture framer at Hobby Lobby so we are sorta

busy right now.

It was so much fun to stitch

and I am sorry, in a way, it is done.

I did put some blending filament

in the sun so it sparkles!

I also put the glow-in-the-dark

filament in the upper top of the middle window

and the light in the lighthouse.

It's the candle burning for her loved one to return!