February Review and March Goals

Hi everyone,

Hope you're all well and enjoying some stitchin time. First of all I want to thank you all for the get well wishes, I'm definitly much better than what I was and I'm almost cough free :)

Another month has ended.... is it just me or with every year the time seems to fly even faster? And with another month ended is time for the balance and I have two celebrate - 2 months, 2 times I reach my realistic goals... not bad (Ok I admit that I'm making then a bit easier, but it works better to my ego and motivation this way) so going back a month these were my 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

As I said I was able to complete bith realistic goals:

Finish the birth sampler:

After - Lickle Teddy - 11.02.2014 (Finished)

Stitch 600 stitches on QS Believe - I was actually able to stitch 1600+ stitches on it and was relatively close to achieve the dreamworld goal of completing the 2nd page:

Before - 01.02.2014

After - 01.03.2014 [no stitches done today]

01.03.2014 - Close-up

Overall I'm really pleased with my progress throughout the month :)

Now what am I planning to stitch for March:

Realistic goals:
     - Start/ Complete and Finish my Spring Project for the EmeraldIsle Cross Stitch group Exchange
     - Complete the second page of QS Butterfly
     - Stitch 1.5 columns of pages 3/5[partial page - just 2 lines] of QS Believe

Dreamworld goals:
     - Stitch 50% of pages 3/5
     - Complete pages 3/5

Now is just fingers crossed for me to be a good girl during the month, and to keep stitching :)

Thanks for stopping by,
Happy Stitches,
Sara

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

It's really been that long

Wow... Only now I realized for how long I haven't posted here.... but in my defence I have a good excuse, my computer and blogger weren't getting along and my net kept rashing wenever I tried to post something and then I had a week holidays, booked on really short notice by boss demands, and I spent it painting the house, so for one week there was no internet for me :(... How I missed it...
But anyway, enough with the omplaints and excuses and lets go to the interesting part. And get ready for a long post because today I have tons of things to share.
So first of all, July goals, were all completed, yay for me ^^ I finished Jasmin :)
Here is the piccie before I washed it.

I caught up with the TOS, and great news were waiting for me when I got back and read my e-mails, part 15 has been released (the last part) which I'll be stitching tonight for sure, and Abi revealed the next SAL... and boy ohhh you can count me in the Owl is just sooooo cute :). (You can see a pic of it a few posts down)

And last goal was to complete the 1st page of SK Treasures which I also did, so now I'm waiting for the next page to be released to keep stithching her :)...

So jumping to August goals here they are:
1 - Finish the TOS (it's as it's done already :D)
2 - Stitch half of the 2nd page of SK Treasures on the week of the SAL
3 - Finish the 2nd page of QS Believe (it's what I've been stitching these past few days, although I hardly stitched a thing :X)
4 - Finish at least 2 of the 3 missing corners of my mum's table cloth....

Extra goal if i still have time - start Orchid from Cross Stitcher

And here is the pic. of QS Believe as of today :)

(sorry for the quality)

With the beginning of a new month and with a new moon there's TUSAL to show, so.... very, very late here is my TUSAL pic:

Ok, so cheking my checklist of what I wanted to share on this huge post the only thing missing are the giveaways... I must say Lucky me ^^

I won Julie and Yes Dear giveaway and I'll be able to get some goddies from HAED, thank you so much for your kindness Julie :) I'll let you all know which charts I picked when I have decided, for now I'm sure I'll get Aries QS and Sagitarius QS by Sara Butcher (my partner's and my zodiac signs respectivelly) but I'm still thinking which ones I'll pick.

Finally last, but not least for sure, my dearest friend Cucki is having a gorgeous giveaway you can check it here :).

And I think it's all for now, thanks if you were able to keep with me up to the end of this huge post :)

Happy stitches

Another goal completed and a new start

On Thursday I finished another column on QS Believe and I completed my 2nd goal for this month. I intended to stitch more on it, but the thrill to start SK Treasures was bigger an on Friday I started it. By the end of today I have more or less 1400stitches done, now I'm not sure if tomorrow I'll add a few more stitches to it or if I start my Tree of Stitches from the TSS, tomorrow I'll see, meanwhile here are some pics of my
progresses

A few more stitches in between tons of work

And the title says it all.
this past week has been crazy in work, as all the first weeks of the month I must say so. But anyway I still had time to stitch a few stitches and for the first time I hand-dyed a piece of white fabric. I really liked the final result and will definetly do it more times. I'm not going to show the entire piece because is for an exchange and I don't won't to ruin the fun, but I'll show a wee bit of it, so you can see the fabric with it's new colour.

Also I was able to stitch on QS Believe and I'm nearly finishing the 2nd column of the 2nd page so for sure I'll be stitching one more column before jumping to the next project. And here is how it stands:

Meanwhile two of the goodies I send for the swaps arrived their destination and I'm very happy because they were very appreciated. One was the ornie I did and for which I posted pictures already, and the other one I can now share was the Autumm Pack (I forgot to take pictures before sending it, but you can see it on my friend Cucki blog here.

Thanks for stoping by :)

Qs Believe - Jessica Galbreth - Page 1 finished 30/03/2011

Finally I finished my first page of QS Believe, it took a while but it's done, now only 3 more pages to complete it.
And here is the picture:

Qs Believe - Jessica Galbreth - Page 1

I know I said I would have this page finished by the end of this week. At least it was what I waned, but I've been so busy that I could only find a couple of hours to stitch today, and this was the result for this week after only half day stitching (not as much as I wanted but I'm still very proud of my progress :)

QS Believe - Jessica Galbreth - Page 1 - 13/02/2011

I was hoping I could have finished my first page on QS Believe by now, but unfortunately I could only stitch a couple of stitches from Friday up to now, is not as much as I wanted but still there's some visible progress. I just hope I can finish this first page by this week.

Hope you like it,

QS Believe

So here it is my progress of these last 4 days, I know it's not much, but it's still some progress:

QS Believe - Jessica Galbreth - Page 1 - 02/03/2011

I wanted to join the HAED BB SAL for this week since the theme was projects with animals. I returned to QS Believe to stitch a little bit more of the butterfly, (of course, once more I'm changing my rotations plans, I think I an't just stick with it) anyway here is my progress up to 02/03/2011

Hope you like it,

Happy stitches everyone

Qs Believe - Jessica Galbreth - Page 1

After 5 days I finally stitched half of the first page from QS Believe.
So here it is a picture of it done.

14/01/2011

QS Believe - Jessica Galbreth - Page 1 - 09/01/2011

On the 01/01/11 I started the QS Believe from Jessica Galbreth I'm stitiching it on a 25ct white evenweave 2 over 1, full stitches.
I'm stitching nearly 300stitches on it per day, so according with my calculations if I keep this rhythm in 3 months it will be finished...
And after 9 days this is how it looks like: