Hmmmmm

Here's my latest Chakra Fae update, I have an admission to make, I think I've been getting bored with her, that why there isn't much progress, every time I pick her up I just get really distracted, so I've decided to put her away for a while then come back to her before I completely lose my mojo. She is lovely, I don't know why I can't settle on her at the moment, but I figure a bit of a break will probably do the trick.

I also had a slight stitching crisis with her last weekend,  I decided to unpick a little bit of where the line was between the two pages, but I accidently cut a slight hole in my fabric. I think I've managed to mend it (honestly, if you think you can see where I did it, let me know, cos I'd much rather know), bur I think I've managed to cover it up in such a way that you can't see I did it. Fingers crossed anyway.

So, here's one of the things that I've been distracted by... and I can't believe how long this little patch of blue has taken me to stitch this week. Some of you may have noticed my tiny little post a couple of weeks ago that I posted about the Passione Ricamo Mystery SAL, which I signed up to, well this is the start of her. There will be a gold border round the top and left side of this, with many purple beads like bunches of grapes, but I think half the stitchers in the UK must have signed up for this because when I went to order the Treasure Braid from sewandso they were out of stock, so I've got it all on back order. I have got the pretty purple beads, but as I'm using Q-Snaps for this I want to leave all the beading until last, as I'm a bit scared of what the Q-Snap might do to the beads. Also, it's really weird stitching something and having absolutely no idea what it's going to look like when it's been finished. Because it's a mystery SAL there hasn't been a picture released of what the final design is.I'm assuming that little white bit that's missing Treasure Braid is going to be the start of her (? - I don't even know that for definite) wings.

Finally, one of the groups I'm on on facebook (HAED Addiction if you're interested) recently set up a list of email addresses so that if you wanted to RAK someone from the group you could go onto the list and find their email address so you could go on to the HAED site and find their wishlist, which was a lovely idea. Anyway, I put my name on this list not really thinking that anything would come of it, but one of the kindly ladies sent me this lovely Faces of Faery by Jasmine Beckett-Griffith. I absolutely love her (the kindly lady and the Ninja). It was the two Ninjas that converted me to JBG's designs so I'm loving this. But I think it'll be a while before I get her started. I'm thinking that she might be started when Clara's finished.Although I'm also thinking that, as she's a bit smaller I might try her on 18 count instead of 25... I figure that (after Clara, which I've already started on 25) when the designs are a bit smaller it might be worth doing them on the 18 count, for the sake of my eye sight. I'm fine with 25 count at the moment, but I'm also aware that the last time I went to the opticians (my glasses are like bottle bottoms they're so thick), she reeled off a list of things that could go wrong with my eyes, and that there wasn't really much I could do about it, other than go and see them as so as I spotted anything wrong... anyway, that was an unexpected moment of 'poor me', I'm honestly not, I figure that I'm fine and if it happens then it'll be resolved, so please don't think this was a pity plee, it's just part of, when I can work on bigger fabrics, I'd probably be doing my eyes a favour if I did.

It's the Wimbeldon Final tomorrow and there will be a definite split in our home. Ben will be supporting Murray because he's British and so you support the British player... I however think that Murray is a rat faced monkey boy (it's surprising how many tennis players I'm willing to describe as rat faced monkey boy), who is continually grumpy, and I'm quite a big fan of Federer, so that's who I'll be supporting. So, along with antagonising each other, I'm also planning on getting some stitching done. I went back to Dragon Rider last night, so I'll hopefully have a bit of progress to show next week, maybe the beginning of the tiny little wizard, or, there could even be a tiny showing of tail!

This is a very long and whittering post by my standards, I haven't written a properly whittering post in ages (the blog was originally called Random Ramblings of a Kim), so I'll stop now, go and do some exercise (once I can get Ben off the Wii for long enough to get him to hand it over, to let me do some toning along with my run earlier), then have dinner and have a stitchy evening.

Chakra has developed some brown

I thought I'd done quite a bit of stitching this week, but it doesn't really look like it, now that I look at the picture, although there's definitely a bit less white than there was the last time I updated.

I'm a bit concerned that I'm going to get a line between pages on this project. It's not something that I've had a problem with int he past, but this is my first attempt at tent stitching, and it seems to be giving me a greated tendency towards page lines... I'll go a bit longer and see how it looks. Hopefully, it's nothing that a quick rinse and iron won't solve.

Happy stitching!

Chakra has surprised me!

Hola!

I am seeing a difference this week, which I actually didn't think that I was going to. The hat is coming along, and I can see a little bit more border as well, so it's all good really. And why has she surprised me? I would never have guessed that there's quite a bit of 310 in the hat on this page, I just hadn't realised, but it's really defined it better than I expected it to. If you really squint, you can just about see the continuation of the branch.

Out and about tonight, so no stitcking for me, but it's the England match tomorrow, so Ben will be glued to the TV, so I'm planning to get some stitching done them. Hope every one is progressing nicely. Happy Stitching!

Pre IHSW

I'm getting my post in early this weekend so that I can (hopefully) get my head down and get some stitching done for International Hermit and Stitch weekend... if you haven't signed up, there's still time, head on over to Joysze's and put your name down, it's all fun. Anyway, firstly this week I've got an update on Come to the Dark Side, from the lovely Dork Stitch who always gets a lot of love. I swear he's the most popular thing that I've ever stitched. There isn't a massive difference since last time, I've basically started the border, but as it's the weekend I thought I'd bring him home for a photo.

The second update is the lovely Chakra Fae by Linda Ravenscroft. This is my first attempt at tent stitching. When I'm up close I always umm and ahh that the coverage isn't good enough, but when I take a step back to take a picture it looks fine. I'm happy to see a bit more colour in this page (although I've also got some nice mindless 3770 to do), although I'm suddenly starting to realise how big this is going to be when I see the size of her hat!

Have a good International Hermit and Stitch weekend everyone, I'm hoping it'll be at least vaguely productive for me

Chakra (not 3770)

Despite the distraction of Clara, I have managed to get a tiny amount done this week, and it's not 3770, which does make a pleasant change. So I've got a little bit of pink, and the patch that looks black on the right is actually a gorgeous deep purple, it's just not a very good picture!

TaTaTaTa - first page!

Ben's away at the moment, meaning that i've had absolutely loads of time for stitching, it's been brill, and as such I've got the first page of Chakra Fae ready to show. That was a lot of 3770, but it was worth it, looks brilliant, even if I do say so myself. There's a slight line in the stitching but I reckon that'll fade out over time, especially with a bit of a rinse as well when it's finished!

Another day of stitching ahead of me, currently debating what to work on next. I think it might be about time that Winter's Majesty got some attention, although I could change my mind some time between posting this and picking up my stitching so I wouldn't count on that being my next update.

Happy Stitching!

Did you have a good IHSW?

Good evening,

Did everyone have a good International Hermit and Stitch Weekend? I'm currently alternating my stitching between doing the confetti stitch on the right side and some nice block stitching on the rest of it. I am rather enjoying her, and tent stitch is lovely, it stitches up so fast.

It's also World Book Night tonight, so I spent my lunch break wandering around the local town giving copies of Small Island by Andrea Levy to random people, I'm most proud of having stopped a policeman and given him a copy! Although I am contemplating using the last few that I have to introduce myself to the people that live in my building. (I've lived here for 3 years, how shameful is it that there are people that I haven't met yet)!

And finally, I have to thank the lovely Milly (who has the nicest blog name that I have ever seen) for nominating me for a Liebster award. I'm afriad I'm wussing out on nominating this time, cos I've lost track of who I've already nominated and I'm running out of interesting facts about myself.

The start of Chakra Fae

Welcome to the world of 3770. Which is what a lot of this page is. This is quite a nice page to stitch actually, there are little patched of confetti on teh right hand side where the branches, but there's loads of mindless block stitching as you can see.

I'm trying tent stitching this time, so this is 2 over 1 on 28 count. It's better coverage than I was expecting, so I think I'm going to be quite happy with teh coverage. It looks a little dodgy when you've only got a couple of stitches, but when there are a few together they seem to fill the space better.

It's International Hermit and Stitch weekend this weekend, and we think that Ben's got a football match tomorrow (which may well end in them going to the pub afterwards) so I'm hoping that I'll get plenty of stitching time tomorrow.

Also, I had a few requests for the pattern of Come to the Dark Side in my last post, it's not my chart, it's dork stitch's so I've put a link in my previous post, which will take you to her post, where you can download the chart!