Almost Finished!

Thanks for the nice compliments on the last post; here's a bit more progress!

I'm nearly done with Cold Hands, Warm Heart! I scanned this early this morning, so I actually have more done now, too. I finished filling in the little heart on the snowman and got some more of the big heart done. I want to finish this by Saturday. The only thing that might slow me down is that I can't decide about one part of the design - there are two little birds on either side of the red heart at the bottom - one blue with white and one white with blue.

I'm not sure I want them to be blue and white. I'm thinking of blue and pink for one and some completly different combination for the other. I dunno.

Here's my progress on my Retro January Kat. Cute, no? His eyes will be green beads.

And my other project I'm working on a little, Chang WuFei. I made this pattern myself; he's a character from the anime Gundam Wing. I laid out the pattern to show how much I still have to do. Nothing on a HAED, but good practice for one, yes? :D

Little Bits of Progress

Here are a few lil' bits and pieces of things I've been working on:

My snowman now has a face! (and part of a body)

and I've done a little bit more of the background on my Retro Kat.


I've also got my Samurai up to having a hand, and I've been working on Chang WuFei, but mostly just the white, off-white, and pale yellow going down the outside of his arm. Not worth a picture yet. Maybe next post. I want to reach his elbow with the light part before I switch back to Fred and Achoo!'s rotation slots. So far I've reached his the edge of his shoulder.

I also never actually posted my February goals, so here they are:
1. Start Mighty Samurai
2. Work on Chang WuFei
3. Work on Fred
4. Finish Cold Hands, Warm Heart
5. Maybe work on Achoo! if Fred's goal is met

The Weather Outside...

Is frightful!





See how lovely my back porch looks? And we're supposed to get another 6-8 inches before 8pm. It's snowing pretty hard right now, so it may happen!


I gotta admit, it makes the mountains look pretty:

Not that they don't anyway :D

I'm kinda glad to be snowed in; I haven't had time to stitch for a week! I started Mighty Samurai, true, but did I get much done?

That would be a 'no'.

I got a little more done on 'Cold Hands', but also nothing to goggle at - behold my mighty progress!

That snowman really needs a face...

One thing I did do, was finish the puzzle. My mum came by to visit, and she luffs puzzles, too, so we got it done in only 2 days! It went from the outline, to this:

and then this:

While we sat and talked and drank way too much coffee. We actually got further than this, but I forgot to take another picture. Then, the next morning before work, I finished it:
Now to decide which one to do next - and if I'm really up to another puzzle! We worked on this one so non-stop that I was seeing the pieces when I closed my eyes... XD

More of Fred

Here's what Frederick the Literate looked like at the beginning of his rotation slot:

and here's how he looks now:

For me, that's a pretty big chunk done! I think I liked working 'Owlbert' best (yeah, I named him) He was mostly blends, which I don't usually like, but he was just cute!
Next rotation (in February), I want to do the book next to Owlbert, finish the bottom shelf over to Owlbert, and then backstitch what I have done. Then Fred will be officially 50% finished!


And I started another project!
But it's not a stitching project. It's been a long time since I worked a jigsaw puzzle, but I really like doing them. Very calming after a stressful day, almost as good as cross stitch! I got several as gifts over the holidays, so I thought I'd start one - then I counted the unopened boxes - some gifts, some I bought over the past year or two - and I have fourteen puzzles I've never done! So I decided to see how many I could get done before Spring. I'm way out of practice, so it's slow work so far. Especially on my first choice, a puzzle of Oxtounge Falls. I think that's in Ontario. Anyway, it's mostly water, so yikes! Here it is with the edge pieces put together:

It's a 750 piece puzzle, so I have a loooooong way to go.

I also changed my blog colors, as you probably noticed. I got tired of dark. It's Winter, I wanna see green!

SnowKat

Finished this yesterday!


Design: 'SnowKat' by Kats by Kelly
Fabric: 14ct white
Finished Size: about 8x10

I dunno why the French knots look all twisted; the scanner flattened them, I guess. Bleh. I MUST buy a cable for my good camera!

This pattern only took me about three days; just the first day was in November '08 and the next were in January '09. That's all.
^__^'

My Crooked Works in Progress

I thought I'd show part of the reason why my large projects don't advance very quickly.

It's because I can't resist starting/working on littler things.

And they don't get done very quickly, either, because I gotta do more than one.

^__^

so here's the little ones I'm working on, and for some reason, my scanner decided that they all needed to be crooked.

This one is Retro January Kat. It's a non-professional Freebie, but I don't remember where I got it. It's gonna be really cute, though I'm sort of wishing I had used blue floss for the background instead of the green the designer chose. The snowflakes don't show up as well as I'd like. It's small, but it's solid stitching. I'm doing it on 18ct antique white.

This is 'Cold Hands, Warm Heart' - another non-professional Freebie. If I can just remember the site name, I'll add it next time. This one's actually not that small of a project. I only started it a day or two ago.This is what I had done on 'Snowkat' when I put it away back in - uh, November, I think.I got this much done since yesterday.

I haven't stopped working on Fred though - I have another book done! The big, fat, mauve book.

Fred's Progress

Here's where I what I have done so far on Fred:



You can see how he looked before over there to the left :) Just scroll down some.

Two books down, two books and an owl (and maybe some bottom shelf) to go. Then I'm starting my Mighty Samurai, who finally showed up in the mail! Yay!