February IHSW Report :)

Hi everyone,

So as a true addict I had to join to IHSW (even with this nasty cough I've been having that's making me cough non stop every 5 minutes...) afterall if there's a good excuse to spend all day stitching why not take advantage of it right :)

I've been stitching on QS Believe, this is the project I'm focussing on now; it's going to be my 2nd project of each month (to be worked on the last two weeks of the month) until it's finished.

So this is how it was on my last post:

HAED - QS Believe - 14.02.2014

 And this is how it is now :)

HAED - QS Believe - 24.02.2014

During the IHSW I was able to put in 750 stitches on it  that's nearly the entire column that I'm stitching now. I'm hoping to have the page complete by the end of the week... as now it's mainly blocks of colours to stitch it should be faster :)

Thanks for stopping by,
Happy Stitches,

Sara

February Wipocalypse Post

Hi everyone,

This as due yesterday but I forgot :) So before I forget to post it again tonight here it is the post for this month WIPocalypse.

And this month topic is:

"How many projects do you generally feel comfortable having in progress at a time?  Tell us about your one-at-a-time or rotation habits!"

At the moment I have way more WIPs than what I would like to and so, it's with great sorry that some of them became UFO's but this year is the year that I'm getting back into the wagon and hopefully I'll have my ideal number of WIPs in progress at the time that is 4. I'm not good at one-at-a-time, proof of that was my disapearance last year... If I stick to a project for too long I reach a point where I no longer have the same satisfaction in stitching it as I had in the beginning and I'll simply stop stitching, so for me 4 is the ideal number as that way I can rotate between two projects a month, giving one month interval before getting back to it, which makes it to be enough time to rest and that way I'll enjoy stitching it more when I get back to it :)

For now I'm actually keeping a rotation of 2 projects a month (2 weeks in each more or less) and I'm actually enjoying it this way :) - So I guess I'll keep it this way while I can :)

As per my progress since last month, I'll let the piccies talk for themselves:


No 1 - was already finished by last WIPocalypse so I'm not showing piccies of it.

 2 - Lickle Teddy Bit Sleepy

As it was on 1st WIPocalypse:

01.01.2014

How it is now:

Finished on 11.02.2013

3 - QS Believe

As it was on 1st WIPocalypse:

Before - 01.01.2014 and 17.01.2014

How it is now:

14.02.2014

4 - No Words Needed

As it was on 1st WIPocalypse:

Before - as of 01.01.2014

How it is now: - No progress

5 - Dragon Fae I

As it was on 1st WIPocalypse:

Before - as of 01.01.2014

How it is now: - No progress

6 - QS Bookend Kitie

As it was on 1st WIPocalypse:

Before - as of 01.01.2014

How it is now: - No progress

7 - SK Treasures

As it was on 1st WIPocalypse:

Before - as of 01.01.2014

How it is now: - No progress

8 - Touch of Spring

As it was on 1st WIPocalypse:

Before - as of 01.01.2014

How it is now: - No progress

9 - British Scene

As it was on 1st WIPocalypse:

Before - as of 01.01.2014

How it is now: - No progress

10 - Culinary Cats

As it was on 1st WIPocalypse:

Before - as of 01.01.2014

How it is now: - No progress

 11 - Sweet Flower

As it was on 1st WIPocalypse:

Before - as of 01.01.2014

How it is now: - No progress

12 - Close up of a Pink Rose

As it was on 1st WIPocalypse:

Before - as of 01.01.2014

How it is now: - No progress

Thanks for stopping by,

Happy Stitches,

Sara

Stitching Update - Turtle Trot and 2nd Finish YAYYYYY

Hi everyone,

I've been wee busy at work this past two weeks so my stitching time got reduced to 1/4 of  the time I usually have. So I've been away from reading blogs and posting as I was focusing all my free time to actually do some stitching.

Yesterday was the 2nd Turtle Trot of the year - I haven't stitched on any of the projects I have listed for it so there's no progress to show :(.... but the good news is that tonight I'll actually be stitching on one of the projects as I'm now going to focus on QS Believe until it's finished....

.... and the reason why I can finally stitch on QS Believe is ....

Lickle Teddy - Birth Sampler - Finished 11/02/2014

Yesssss..... That's right the Birth Sampler is finally finished, it's now drying and tomorrow I'll frame it, after I got over all the white it stitched really fast and because I stitched it over 2 I didn't hate the 1/2 stitches nor the backstitch, I actually enjoyed doing the backstitching and seeing it getting shape.

I'm really proud of it I designed the letters with the help of PCStitch and added them to the original chart of DMC - Lickle Teddy - A bit Sleeping to make it into the birth sampler.

And now some more piccies of some close-ups I took :)

Thanks for stopping by

January Review and Goals for February

Hi everyone,

Today is the 1st of February (gosh is it just me who feels time flied).
So it's time to do the balance for January and list my plans for February.

My realistic goals for January were:
- To complete the bear bars - Done

Before - 01.01.2014

After - Finished on 14.01.2014

And to reach 50% of the Lickle Teddy - A Bit Sleeping - When I stopped stitching yesterday evening I had 68.12% done (that is 5518 stitches out of 8100stitches).
And this is how it was looking, the bright pink of the body is complete, and I just have to finish the date and weight to finish the light purple. One interesting thing to notice is that both the name and date use the same thread, but the name looks totally different because of the bling gutterman thread added :)

Before - Licke Teddy - 01.01.2014

After - Lickle Teddy - 31.01.2014

I wasn't able to reach any of my dreamworld goals but to be honest I never believed I would be able to achieve them, I'm happy to have them there just to try and achieve a bit more as I did this month.

Now as for my February Goals:

Realistic Goals:
- Finish the Birth Sampler (preferably before the 10th of February to have time to frame it before visiting my brother and his family)
- Stitch 600 stitches on QS Believe

Dreamworld goals:
- Complete the partial page on QS Believe
- Stitch 100 stitches on QS Bookend Kitties

Lets see if I'll be as good as I was this month :)

Thanks for stopping by
Happy Stitches
Sara