Oh look, some grey!

What is wrong with me? Whenever I get this project out to work on I get all excited about the lovely colours in me, then I work on the grey background... hopefully I've only got another week or so on the grey progress then I might actually get round to some colour... but she's going away again after only a week <sob> she was a break from some gifts that I have to work on and it's time to get back to them already!

Colour!!!!!!

Look, there's colour, actual colour! Not much I know, but I'm so excited to see that Clara has finally got some colour. There's some blue in the feather (but you can't see that very well on the picture), and there's pink on her hat.

Oh look, some more grey!

I don't really have to show much this week, just a little bit of progress on the grey, don't seem to have had much time really this week... so instead I shall refrain from making any comments about 50 shades of grey and just hope that by next week I'll have finished all the shades of grey on this page and I can start playing with different colours.

The return of Clara (briefly)

Clara has been calling to me, so I decided to spend a week on her before I went back to the final push on Dictionary on Love. She's been screaming for attention for so long and I was looking forward to the bright colours on her, so what did I do? Work on the grey on the back ground... I'm an idiot. Having said that, it's quite nice blocks of colour, so it has stitched quite well, so maybe there was an odd sort of logic in doing the grey first... that and the fact that I usually try to stitch the 'boring' bits first, so that I don't loose interest as I'm getting to the end (as is happening slightly with Dictionary at the moment). Anyway, back to Dictionary I go, lets see if I can get it finished within the next week... here's hoping, because I'm missing my other projects!

A little later than intended

... but still before the end of the year so I'm happy, all of Clara's outlining is done and I'm ready to colour her in. I'm going to put her away for a little while to finally dedicate some time to some other projects but I'm pretty happy with how she looks and looking forward to adding all the colour in.

It meets up!

You have no idea how relieved I was when I finished the circuit and it actually met up, such a relief. I was absolutely terrified that I'd get to the bottom of the page and find that I was a stitch out somehwere around the edge. I actually did a little happy dance when it worked! I'm now taking bets on whether I can get her finished by Christmas rather than New Year, it might be achieveable. We've only got a couple of things to do today, although I am working tomorrow (boo), and I volunteered for the Sunday shift, it wasn't on my rota but they were short so I volunteered... if I hadn't done that I'd have finished for Christmas by now!

I think this will be my last post before Chirstmas (unless I do manage to finish her - well, the black), so I hope everyone has a lovely Christmas, gets everything that they want from Santa and don't spend all day stuck in the kitchen cooking! Have fun!

Last International Hermit & Stitch of 2012

And it didn't go to badly actually. Especially considering the time of year and how many other things there are to get done. Clara is growing, Only 1 full page and two partials to go (one of those I'm now over halfway through), I think I'm still on target to get all the outlining done by the end of the year (fingers crossed)! I do love her, I almost don't want to finish the outlining because I know that the colouring in will go so much slower... but then I've got Heather to look forward to starting for the Rakateers SAL so just as I finish it for this I'll have a new one to start on (yeah, like I need a new start, I know).

For those that do celebrate, hope everyone is looking forward to Christmas. I have to admit that with the two jobs I'm really looking forward to some time off, as I'm (currently) not down to work for either job. Think we're closing the office over Christmas, and as my second job is casual, all the hours that are available go to the full time staff, which I'm perfactly happy with. Most of my shopping is done, I have to finish my wrapping this week and that's it, it's all good!

Happy Stitching all!

Another page done

Here's the development of Clara, I'm still loving working on her, and this page has stitched up quite quickly! I'm starting another Hannah Lynn as a New Year SAL (Heather for those that are interested), so I'm looking forward to another one where I can enjoy working on the outline! I think I'm still just about on track to get all the black done before the end of year, although I also want to get some more progress done on the Passione Ricamo SAL before the end of the year! Can't believe it's that time of the year when I'm looking towards end of year targets and working out what targets I want to set myself for next year.

Clara (again)

Another week, another update on Clara. You much all be getting bored of her by now. I have to say that I'm not, but as I've worked on practically nothing else since I started working on her, I am actually putting her away for a while, to concentrate on other projects for a while.

I've done two full and three partial pages, and I've got two full and two partial pages left, so I'm a little over halfway through (especially as I've started working on one of the full pages already), which is rather exciting, I can see her coming together really quickly.

My first Pride and Prejudice post

You may remember that I couple of weeks ago I posted about a lovely kit that I'd bought from the lovely Anna at Serentiy Designs, well here's my first progress pic. I'm loving working on it, it's a lovely easy stitch, the shading looks lovely and it seems to stitch up really quickly. I haven't spent much time on this and I seem to have managed a chunk of progress already, and that's including the fact that I'm an idiot and missed out a row of stitches then had to frog loads. I know it doesn't look like all that much just yet, but I can already see what's it is and what it's going to turn into, and that makes me happy! If you're not sure by the way, this is the top of Darcy's face and his hair!

Also, as I've admitted before, I'm really struggling to put Clara down for any period of time, so of course there's yet another update to show for her as well. I've not reached the far right side which is great, because it means that I know how big she's going to be, and I'm still completely in love with her.

A plethora of updates

 As you can see, I've got many updates to show this week, it's been a surprisingly productibe stitchy week this week, I'm quite proud. Firstly Clara, and I've discovered her gravity defiant boobs. I do love Clara, and I'm absolutely loving working on her, but I really do need to put her down and work on something else at some point, I'll wait until I finish this page though, and maybe I'll just do the bottom partial page so I can see how big she's going to be... you can see where this thought process is going to end up can't you? Thus far I've managed to resist the HAED sale (apart from running a little competition on facebook and sending a chart), although I don't know how much longer I'm going to last.

Passione Ricamo Mystery SAL, the third page arrived today, so last weekend I decided that I ought to get my ass into gear and get some progress in on page to... I'm trying to never be more than one page behind, but I'm sure that it'll get worse as the year goes on. There's lots of filling in left to do on this page, although that dip in on the right side is the beginning of her wings (I was looking at the chart this morning), so I feel like I ought to get started on those.

 

And finally, a tiny little update on a much neglected project. This lives under my desk at work for cold or rainy lunch breaks when I don't want to go out, and, despite how miserable the weather's been this summer there haven't actually been many rainy lunch breaks, so it's just got absolutely no attention at all. I did manage to get a little done this week when the weather was pretty miserable, and she she's almost started to resemble a person instead of a sunburnt teddy bear I thought I'd put a little picture up and show what's happening with her.

Clara's completely addictive

I do love working on Clara, she's completely addictive. My first Hannah, and defintiely not my last, she's so lovely to stitch!

This is the 3rd page completed (well, the black completed anyway), I really want to carry on working on her, although I'm going to try and put her down and work on something else, even if it's only for a couple of hours, but I think I'll be back on her again pretty soon. If you want to see a more progressed verstion of her check out Megan's blog, she's absolutely flying through. She started after me and is already well ahead.

We're off out tomorrow cos Ben's taking me to Whitby, but other than that we don't really have much planned, so I'm hoping to have quite a productive stitching weekend, especially after having such a stitchless week. I put Clara down last Saturday and didn't get a chance to pick her up again until last night, I really missed her too!

It's been a busy week though. Our local football club had an opening of their new hospitality suite on Tuesday so I managed to get invited to that through work, then on Wednesday I won tickets to go and see Philippa Gregory give a talk as part of her book tour, she was really interesting, and much more entertaining than I expected her to be. I really like her books so I was quite chuffed to win the tickets, especially as I also week a set of her latest quartet of books

Latest International Hermit and Stitch

I didn't manage to finish my page like I was aiming for... Saturday went well and I was on track, Sunday I didn't get any stitching done at all, life got in the way instead... there's still enough progress for it to not be embarassing to show at least.

The Minx that is Miss Clara and the PR Mystery SAL

I've managed to do a bit more on the Passione Ricamo SAL. It's really odd stitching something when I don't know what it's going to look like.That little unstitched in the bottom corner that I thought was going to be wing is actually the moon, but I think the next page shows the start of her wing. I'm still behind, but I'm starting to catch up, and hopefully I'll be able to get a bit more done on her this week. The border is actually really glittery, but my camera hasn't managed to pick that up at all.



Clara started calling to me. She's developing a bit of a habit of doing that. It was stitching group on Thursday and she seemed like a nice project to take with them, and then I didn't want to put her down again yesterday.

It's International Hermit and Stitch this weekend, and I'm debating whether I'm going to be able to spend enough time stitching to finish this page. We haven't got much planned, so it is a possibility.

Happy Stitching!

I got distracted... again!

I was away last weekend to see the Olympic Football (we went out on penalties, oh what a surprise!) so I took Clara away with me because she's a bit more portable than Dragon Rider (Q-Snap versus massive roll frame), and having started working on her while I was away I couldn't put her down again, so I decided to finish the page, and I am completely in love with her!

I'm really tempted to carry on working on her, and move on to the next page, but I'm going to be good and go back to Dragon Rider. Finishing this page means that I've completed one of my Olympic goals, and and I'm going to make Dragon Rider a Paralympic goal instead.

Happy Stitching all!

World's Tiniest IHSW update

I know, it's a useless update, but it's all I could manage. It seems to have been a suprisingly busy weekend. I cheated I worked on Clara, just so that you'd be able to see that I'd done something.

Hope everyone else had a more productive weekend than I did.

She's a little minx!

I had every intention of working on Chakra Fae this week, and even started with a few stitches, but it turns out that Clara is a little minx. She started calling to me and I just couldn't resist. This is now all the black on the first page, and I'm very excited! I've been wanting to work on a Hannah Lynn chart for ages, because I love the idea of doing the outline and then colouring her in, and she's just as gorgeous and much fun as I was hoping, but I am now going to get back to Chakra Fae from when I picked her up last week.

For those of you in the UK who had an uber long weekend last weekend last weekend, I hope you had a good time. Mine was pretty manic. Dad's local canal (I'm feeling very guilty because I can't remember what it's called), had restored part of the canal and they'd organised a joint jubilee/it's just been opened celebration. And for something that was organised by amateurs, it was absolutely mahoosive! I was helping my dad's fiance out on her stall and Ben was running on the stage, it was brilliant fun, but basically meant that we got up, went to the site, came home, had a drink, went to bed, got up, went to the site... so I went back to work this week for a break. However, I was only back for two days, I'm off again today as we're heading to Chester for a cousins wedding.