Celeste Update - February

Just a quick update, I have one of the four corners mostly done.  There is some couching and a little backstitching and the beads, that's what goes in the holes in the blue, gold beads.  You can see the gold that I didn't rip out yet in the coil by the tail.  It seems just a little too bright to me.  I'm not much into gold anyway.  Maybe that's part of the problem.  Next month I'm on the road for two weeks and am taking two smaller projects so this will be put aside for a little while.

Jane Longstreth

It's been awhile (over a year?) since I posted anything here. I finally got back to working on Jane Longstreth and you can see my progress here. The plan is to work on Jane for 15 days of every month until she is finished.

Celeste Update!

I finished the dragon!  Well almost, I still have to stitch the scales but the rest of the backstitching is done.  Next I'll start on the border pattern.  I tried doing some of the scales but apparently back when I bought the materials I grabbed the wrong gold blending filament and I don't like the one I have so I need to frog that and try it with the right color.  But still I can't be happier with the progress I've made.  Happy New Year!

Dragons Update - Two Rows Complete

Two of Five rows complete.
It took me all year to get this second row done. But hey you can almost see some actual dragons in there now!
Here's the latest:

Halloween Fairy finished and so are all my UFO's :)

well here is my final update on Halloween Fairy. This is also the end of my UFO journey for now as I have only one project on the go at the minute and I'm nearly finished with that one to. I couldn't have finished either water games or Halloween Fairy without the support of the followers and stitchers on this blog and I thank all of you for enouraging me to finish my UFO's xx

I'm sure I will probably be back with either a UFO or a long term project sometime in 2011 as I have a fair few large designs I want to stitch now :) Till next time, Happy Christmas & Happy Stitching xx

Celeste Update

Just a quick update on Celeste.  I did get the rest of the area filled in.  I have decided to switch to something else for a while so this will go back on the pile.  But hopefully for just a few weeks rather than 8 months this time.  Just one loop and the tail left and then off to the border.  I might get this finished yet!

Celeste update, finally!

I was embarrassed to go and find out how long it had been since I posted, 8 months!  But since this blog is about finishing 'eventually' I'll try not to be too hard on myself and it is very nice to have a place to share my accomplishments when I do get something stitched and I have been working on three other projects.  But I digress.  So I had a wonderful holiday stitching weekend.  Thanksgiving here in the States gave me lots of American football to listen to, can't take my eyes off the pattern or the fabric, and time off from work and even some sunny days which are a big plus when it comes to a TW design and rare in the winter in Oregon.  How was that for a run on sentence!  So here it is, March to November or more accurately November to March.  I am going to stick with it a little longer and finish this section.  I might go back and do some back stitching but may be ready to switch to another project.  You'll know when I do!