First Finish of 2014

Hi everyone,

Yes it's true I've finished on project :) Which makes 2014 a year with more finishes than 2013 (that says enough about last year doesn't it?)
So anyway I've finished the bear bars as planned and the good bit is I don't have to finish-finish them, as they will be posted to my mum so that she can finish them into a bed linen for my niece/ her granddaughter.

This is what they looked liked on the 1st of January:

And this is how they look like now:
(I'll be asking my mum to take a picture of it when it's totally finished and I'll share it with you)

Now next project is the Lickle Teddy Bit Sleepy that I adjusted to be a birth sampler for my niece.
This is how it's going to look like (more or less):

And this is how it at the moment you can barely see any stitching on the piccie... but it already has 1527 stitches... all in DMC B5200 :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

Happy Stitches

Sara

And because I was stitching

Here is a picture of my latest progress on the bears head bars.

Bear Head's Bars as of 11.01.2013

The one on the left is finished, and the one on the right as all the outlinings done, so I just need to rip the inside colours of the bottom bear and stitch the middle and bottom bear with the right colours. I guess that will be all done on Monday :) (fingers crossed)

Hope you're all having a nice weekend. I took a break from work to make this post and going back to the pile of invoices I need to check now :)

Happy stitches everyone
Sara

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

Monthly goals

Ok so after thinking of this for the past few days I thought that it might be easier for me if instead of a set rotation per month, I set the goals I want to acheive, and then I'll rotate between the projects I want to work on, that way if one project needs a bit more love for a while I can give it to him without feeling guilty for stealing time from another project eheheh. I'll be splitting my goals into two cathegories, the realistic and the dreamworld, so that in the event that I can reach my goals with plenty of time still to go, I can make some indent on the goals planned for the next month :)

So this month I want:

Realistic goals:
- Finish the teddy bear bars (the 2 vertical bars on the picture) - this means frog the inside colour of the bear heads at the bottom  and re-stitch them with the top colour and stitch the missing bear head that is going on the middle.

The before - as of 08.01.2014

- Reach 50% of the Lickle Teddy Sleeping - adjusted to be a Birth Sampler

Lickle Teddy Sleeping as of 08.01.2014
1527 of 6651 stitches done
19%

Dreamworld goal:
- Finish the Lickle Teddy Bear Sleeping
- Stitch 100 stitches on QS Believe

I'll leave you now with the reason why I'm stitching less...my Mojito :)
 I have to keep looking for the threads and make sure they are hidden to avoid this:

Moji stealing my scissor and thread

And of course... chewing the thread...

Thanks for stopping by
Happy Stitches,
Sara

My WIPs for the year

Hi everyone,

So as promised this are the WIPs I plan to actually stitch on. I hope to have several of them finished or close to a finish by the end of the year. And to help me out keeping with the blogging and reducing the WIPs amount I’ve decided to join some SALs for this year and that you can side on my sidebar:

 - IHSW [International Hermit and Stitch Weekend] where in each 3rd weekend of the month you just sit and stitch as much as you want.

- WIPocalypse – in each full moon you post the progress you have since the previous post.

- Turtle Trot – you pick ten Projects and on the 10th of each month you post a picture of any progress you’ve made on them.

And without further ado – the pictures of how the WIPs look like at the beginning of the year. I don’t plan to start anything new until I reduce the list to a maximum of 6 WIPs.

No Words Needed
1 of 10 for Turtle Trot
Goal: To complete the current row and following row of pages









[Sorry for the sideway piccie]
Bars for my niece bed linen and pillowcase
Goal: to stitch the 2 missing bear heads on the centre of the pillow case bars by the end of the 2nd week of January.













Lickle Teddy Sleeping Customised to be my niece Birth Sampler, you can't see much because all the stitches in are white.
Goal: have it finished before I visit them in February.









Dragon Fae I
2 of 10 for Turtle Trot
Goal: to complete the first row of pages

QS Believe
3 of 10 for Turtle Trot
Goal: Finish it

QS Bookend Kittie
4 of 10 for Turtle Trot
Goal: Finish it

[Sorry for the sideway piccie]
SK Treasure
5 of 10 for Turtle Trot
Goal: finish it

Touch of Spring
6 of 10 for Turtle Trot
Goal: Complete the middle Column

British Scene
7 of 10 for Turtle Trot
Goal: Finish it

Cullinary Cats - Cookbook Cover
8 of 10 for Turtle Trot
Goal: Finish it

Sweet Flower
9 of 10 for Turtle Trot
Finish it

Close up Pink Rose
10 of 10 for Turtle Trot
Goal: Have 50% done

Flower Tablecloth

Goal: Finish it.

And this is it for now.

Thanks for stopping by,

Happy Stitches

Sara 

New Year–New Me–New Resolutions

Hi everyone,

I know it’s been a really long time since I last posted here. But with the New Year one of my Resolutions was to come back to my blog, no matter what I’ll make some time to write and share with you my progresses on stitching and anything else that might happen along the way.

Of course that leads me to my second Resolution of actually making some time to stitch, or/and to knit (I’ve been getting acquainted with this one, since my mum started knitting some very cute clothes for my niece, her first granddaughter).

I might also share from time to time my progress on the gym, as I’m trying to get fit - it’s not a New Year’s Resolution because I’ve started some stage in June last year but my Resolution is to actually do more, and I’ve decided to go to 6 1hour classes a week that I really enjoy.

I’ll be taking pictures of all my WIPs until the end of the weekend, so that we can see how much I got done in a year, and I’m going to try a rotation system of 4 projects per month, 1 per week and see how it goes from there.

Hope you all had a Great Christmas and that this New Year brings you everything you wish for

 

Hugs,

Sara

A fresh "new" start back to blogging

Hi everyone.....

It's been really a long time since I've posted anything here, and I guess many of you have forgotten me already.... there's no excuses for not updating it in such a long time, so I'm not even start trying and I decided to start fresh... and consider today as day 1 :)

So first of all let me introduce myself to you all, my name is Sara and I've been an addict to cross-stitch since I was 7 years old (I'm now almost 27) and apart from my teenage years I always had something around that I was stitching or knitting or crocheting, for the past 9 years I've found HAED and become the true addict on cross stitch with a couple of WIPS (that I guess now are falling on the UFO cathegory, as I'm dedicating all my stitching time to a single project at the moment).

And for those of you curious what I'm stitching, here's the picture of it "No Words Needed" by Adele Sessler and charted by HAED:

HAED - No Words Needed
Tent stitched on 28ct white evenweave

11 pages already done, and just have another 25 to complete the project :) .... I'm really loving stitching this, every time I put it down and look at the progress I'm amazed with the new details I see :) and now that I have the faces completed it really makes me want to stitch more and more...

Now, hopefully with some more organization on my side and with the days getting "longer and longer" because it's Summer time :) I'll be stopping over here much more frequently (at least fingers crossed I'll do it :))

I've far too many blogs to read, so I've decided to start fresh on my list too and with the help of bloglovin I'll start stopping by your blogs too :)

Happy Stitches everyone

Sara