Better late than never.... WIPocalypse and Turtle Trot

Hi everyone,

I've been wee busy with work so my stitching time was reduced drastically until now... But I've been stitching (and stashing as you will see) whenever I get a few minutes free.

Since the begining of this month I've focuses on my exchange project so there will be no pictures of it (for obvious reasons) until the person receives it :) I can say I'm now nearly finished with the stitching part and then just have to decide how I'm going to actually finish it.

Since last Turtle Trot and WIPocalypse the only project I stitched apart from the exchange project was QS Butterfly.
And this was how it looked before the WIPocalypse, had a bit less done during the Turtle Trot.

Before:

15.02.2014

 And this is how it is now:

01.03.2014

As I said I might not have stitched much but I've definitely been stashing and received the 2 big orders I had placed at the beginning of the month :) I got some extra money that I wasn't counting at all so my sweet other half pushed me to spend it with me and with my "addiction" and so this was what I received:

1st package coming from UK:

 5 Fat Quarter white 28ct Lugana, 1 thread snipper and 250 plastic bobbins (for my second package)

And the reason why I needed so many plastic bobbins - My 2nd package coming from USA and that arrived yesterday:

 All the DMC threads I was missing to have a full set of DMC (it's not totally full as I missed 3 threads... but it's now only 3 threads rather than 175+ I was missing before)

And this was what I spent my entire day yesterday and half day today doing:

Getting the threads on the bobbins and on their boxes :) I'm so happy with it :)

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

First Turttle Trot of The Year

Hi everyone,

I've started well, forgetting to post about Turttle Trot yesterday. But to tell you the truth I haven't stitched yet on any of the projects that I've planned for the Turttle Trot this year. So this post is going to be my reference post for the year with the 10 projects I've choosen and the stats I have about them at the moment so that by the end of the year I can show the before and after :)

In no specific order the 10 projects are:

1 - No Words Needed - HAED

Stitched 2 x1 - tent stitch
white 28ct evenweave
Started on: 11.10.2012

Total stitches:	208900		100%
Total done:	74640		35,73%
Total to do:	134260		64,27%

2 - Dragon Fae I - HAED

Stitched 1 x1 - tent stitch for background and full cross stitch for motif

white 25ct evenweave

Started on: 25.02.2011

Total stitches:	123600	100%
Total done:	10555	9%
Total to do:	113045	91%

3 - QS Believe - HAED

Stitched 2 x1 full cross stitch white 25ct evenweave

Colours converted to Anchor

Started on: 01.01.2011

Total stitches:	29250	100%
Total done:	12437	42,52%
Total to do:	16813	57,48%

4 - QS Bookend Kitties - HAED

Stitched 2 x1 tent stitch

white 25ct evenweave

Started on: 09.01.2012

Total stitches:	20449	100%
Total done:	10926	53%
Total to do:	9523	47%

5 -SK Treasures - HAED

Stitched 1 x1 full crosses

Very light pink 25ct evenweave (hand-dyed by me)

Started on: 17.06.2011

Total stitches:	27000	100%
Total done:	12035	45%
Total to do:	14965	55%

6 - Touch of Spring - HAED

Stitched 2 x 1 full crosses

White 18ct aida

Colours converted to Anchor

Started: 05/2011

Total stitches:	120000	100%
Total done:	39873	33%
Total to do:	80127	67%

7 - British scene - Anchor

Stitched 1 x 1- full cross stitch

white 18ct aida

Started: 10/01/2012

Total stitches:	6806	100%
Total done:	586	9%
Total to do:	6220	91%

8 - Culinary Cats - Margaret Sherry

Stitched 2 x 2- full cross stitch

white 28ct evenweave

Started: 09/12

Total stitches:	8341	100%
Total done:	324,5	4%
Total to do:	8016,5	96%

9 - Close up Pink Rose - Yiota Stitces

Stitched 1 x1- full cross stitch

white 18ct aida

Started: 13/01/2013

Total stitches:	22576	100%
Total done:	4134	18%
Total to do:	18442	82%

10 - Sweet Flower SAL - Angie

Stitched 1 x1- full cross stitch

White 28ct evenweave

Started 14/01/2013

Total stitches:	Unknown
Total done:	Unknown
Total to do:	Unknown