Severus & the Snowman

Sounds like a fanfic title, lol!

Here's my ornament kit, all done:

It's called 'Ho-Ho Snowman'. Gotta love these names!


And here's my progress on Chibi-Sev - since he isn't very big and has only about 12 colors, I'm stitching each color completely, then moving on to the next.

One grey:


Two greys:


Three greys:

He looks like he stood to close to Neville's cauldron of Bleaching Solution XD
I have two more greys, the whites of his eyes & shirt edges, the 3 greens of his potion, and the two skin tones left.

Mary & Lizzie*Kate

I got this in the mail:



and immediately made this:


That's the Lizzie*Kate ornament from the issue, with the colors washed out a bit by my flash. It's super simple and looks really cute (like a little package) the way it's supposed to be finished. I have to buy some Christmas fabric to start finishing all these up!

I'm still going to try to do another of my little kits, too, but if I don't finish it, at least this one will do for my goal :D

Here's the motif I stitched for Mary Wigham:


Which leaves her looking like this now:


Progress! I may go back and change the pattern like I did with the yellow motif, by doing the few little stitches it would take to make her symmetrical. I know the original wasn't, but it's not as charming, to me, that I'm copying a mistake instead of making my own XD. Once I finish my Bride Tree stuff, I'm bumping Mary up to two motifs a month, otherwise she will never get done.

Next post - pics of Chibi-Severus' progress!

September Goals

I used to do this all the time, and even stuck to them fairly well, so I thought I would give it another shot:

SEPTEMBER GOALS!

1. Start & finish another Christmas ornament
2. Start & finish the August-theme ornament for my Bride's Tree SAL
3. Start & finish the September-theme ornament for my Bride's Tree SAL
4. Add a motif to Mary Wigham
5. Work at least 10 hours each on Angel of Grace, Mermaid of the Deep, & Sunny
6. Choose either Kuruma, Chibi-Sev or Wufei and work 10 hours on him

Now to see if I can stick to it!

Four Fine Finishes :D

Sorry about the title, couldn 't resist the alliteration...

I've been way behind on my Bride's Tree SAL - I got stuck on June's 'fruit' theme - I wanted some small cherries, hopefully slightly realistic looking. For some reason, a pattern like that, free or purchased, I just couldn't find.

So I kinda winged it, and here are my Cherries:




I finished them easily, in a day, because they are tiny, so I decided to move right on to July's 'fish' theme. The Bride's Tree blog had a link to another tiny pattern, so here's my fish:

Done in less than an hour! And I adore him! I think he's so cute - I want to make more, lol! I've got special finishing ideas for both of these, so I wanted them to be tiny.

I finished this month's ornament kit a few days ago:





I think this makes seven this year.

And ...finally!
Here he is, in all his completed 10,000 stithes glory...




Spike!

My favorite-est vampire ever!
Patten: PC Stitch, from an online avatar pic
Stitched with DMC on 14ct antique white
About 8x8 inches square. Finished on 8/27/10

Now... what next? I think I'll do a motif on Mary and dig out my Angel of Grace...

Black, Black, Black...

I got lots of the black done on Spike - I didn't even work on any of the other colors for a while. I have now, but it was after I took this pic. I'm hoping to show him off finished, soon :D

Here's my latest Bride's Tree ornie - this one was for May or June... the theme was 'Birds'. The next theme I'll be doing is 'Fish', but I haven't found any small fish design that I like yet.

And here's my start on the July-December SAL at HAED - 'SK Sunny' by Myka Jelina. Once again, she will be for my sister when she's done. She's much bigger than the Mermaid that I'm working on; wider and a whole lot taller.

I'm trying out gridding for the first time with her! I can't remember where I saw this style of gridding explained, but it's supposed to pull out very easily. I didn't have the nerve to actually mark the fabric with dressmaker's markers like some people do; her skin is all stitched with B5200 and with my luck it wouldn't fade and would show through forever. Here's what she'll look like done:

Little Things

Here are some of the little things I had done.

Another Christmas ornament (still working on all those little kits):

Two very small additions to Mary Wigham:

And a 'chibi' style pic of Snape, pattern from PCStitch. I've stitched all the black on him first, just to see how that went. (Pic was used with artist's permission)

I've been working away at the black on Spike but I don't want to post another pic of him until I have more done. I've also been working on HAEDs - my new SAL SK and a big project. I've also finished another Bride's Tree ornie, but I forgot to take a picture of it.

I Did Not Die...

I just vanished for a while!

Had some dental problems and I've been really busy besides that.

I've got a little progress to show though -

My Mermaid has a completed face!

And Spike nearly has one, too!

I'll show off the few little things I got done tomorrow or the next day.