I wasn't too ambitious!!!

For once in my life I wasn't too ambitious. I actually managed to achieve what I said I was going to, it's not often that I can say that.

The little cat is looking so cute, or, in theme with our recent trip, so kawaii, look at him sleeping and looking cute.

Anyway, I was a bit concerned about the light blue around the outline, it does look a little odd up close in this picture, but when you take a step it makes much more sense.

So, startitus is still controlling my life, what could possibly be coming next?

I'm back!

Excuse the radio silence, we've been away. We went to Japan which was my absolute bucket list trip and our trip of a life time for our honeymoon. It was an amazing trip (and I will put up some pics and stories at some point if people are interested)  but it does mean that I haven't really been able to do any stitching. We got back about a week and a half ago, and Thursday was the first time I've managed to pick my stitching up. I've got a little bit to show, I'm so close to finishing her shoe off, and her knee is also now complete. I'm going to optimistically say that I'll finish it this week (hahaha) but I've got a couple of mid week days off this week, so it's looking hopefully.

Hope everyone has had a good month in my absence and happy stitching!

Too ambitious by far

I knew I was being too ambitious about where I wanted to be when I next posted on this, why do I do that to myself? It's been busy at work again, so I've been leaving a bit late, and that's cutting in to my stitching time. I've got a bit to show though, the toe of her sneaker and her elbow are more complete than they were at least. I'll try and be more productive next time.

A little bit more

Nothing very exciting this week I'm afraid, a bit more sneaker, a bit more of her jeans and a bit more back ground, it's all very exciting! Next I'm aiming to finish off her sneakers, hopefully her jeans and do the shading around the edge of her, so that's all that left for background is filling in. As per usual I'm probably being much too ambitious, but it's fun to aim for things huh!

I didn't cheat!

Tenting, oh how I love thee, let me count the ways...

I know, I said I wasn't going to work on the cat first, I was going to be good and work methodically, but it turns out that working methodically actually meant doing quite a lot of him, as it turns out that the colours in Celara's sneakers and the colours in his fur are very similar, so I finished the red/brown of  Celara's shoe and ended up doing lots of cute fur at the same time, of the hardship!

Once again I'm loving how this is making up and seeing it come together so quickly (and not just because it's tented), and once again, when I step back to take the picture I see the details better than I do when I'm working on it.

New start... like it's a surprise

We all knew it was going to happen, here's my shinny new start, and I love that it's looking like something already, it makes me so happy when I have something to show that actually looks like something. It does to me anyway, I'm hoping that isn't just because I know what I'm looking for. If not, picture someone sitting cross legged, here is a sneaker, a knee, a cute little cat and an elbow. I am so tempted to work on the cat first, but I'm being good and working upwards. Below is a picture of what this will look like in the dark and distant future. This is artwork by a fantastic American artist called Karen Hallion (link here), as this picture shows she does some fantastic geeky artwork, and this is her character called Celara. Karen was generous enough to give me permission to have some of her artwork charted, and this was one of the ones I picked as it's got several of my favourites in in. As with everything, it'll be months (haha - years) before it's finished, but at least she is already looking like something, I'm much keener to work on something when I can see it (her in this case) progressing. I should say by the way, this was charted for me by the lovely Stitchpix.