Stake conference, so more stitching time than a normal Sunday but not quite as much as a General Conference. Watching via You Tube this week and nit via Zoom, I do prefer the former but being able to "attend " remotely via either remains a blessing.
Still stitching with the light grey. I think there will be a change in shade if not in colour for next week.
There is still a paw on the left kitten to do in both white and grey but it just does not feel like a good jumping off point at the moment.
and yet so far!
I have not forgotten the dragons. I have been on a ninja hunt, here a stitch there a stitch, two the same shade at the same time bliss.
I think I have under thirty stitches to go, all on the wing struts.
I hope I have spotted all the stitches around the edges. If not well backstitching will no doubt serve its dual purpose and not only add clarity to the design but flush out any lingering ninja stitches.
and the stitching is completed.
I am happy with the variegated thread replacing the intended thread from the cover kit.
I am also happy with the result of my initial error. You can play spot the difference between my BFF's version (she followed the pattern except for the variegated swop)
next week we move to the stitching on SAL 23 part two.
Oh Click Here for my BFF's blog and that spot the difference game.
I have been framing today, after the Sunday stitching and before ninja hunting on the dragons.
As the framed items are gifts can't post them just yet. However, when holding finished stitches up for my BFF to see over Messenger she oft asks me to put something behind to stop the light coming through and distorting the image she can see.
That reminded me of the unplanned result of adding yellow paper behind the design on a birth sampler because there were cut out Ducks in the mount I wanted to emphasise. The result was a subtle warming of the cross stitched piece.
So in this instance I thought something much more intentional and reflective of the colours I would want as the subtle shade.
So it does not look like much but here it is.
I was going to say it was a bit like the weather, more grey but today there is actually some Sunshine.
The kitten however still with the grey stuff.
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for a wedding.
I will decide to do these things at the last moment. In this instance inspired by hearing two days before that the decorations for the wedding would include balloons.
It is from a cover kit, but I made some modifications in particular adding the gold blending filament, to the cross stitched balloon hearts and adding the backstitched gold hearts.
I have a little bit of gold blending thread as regular visitors will be aware.
A quick trip to the loft the morning of the wedding and it was all ready to go.
I have crossed out part of the details for the couples privacy.
I rather like how it turned out.
Little bit of tissue paper and some wool and all set.
well unless we get fed up with it and there is no part two. It could happen.
I have already deviated from the original design on this cover kit, I miss counted so there will be optional spot the difference opportunity with this SAL
As usual we have approached the stitching differently, although we were both agreed that the edge would be variegated threads and not dotty stitching of three shades of green and a white.
My BFF chose her variegated on the night, I had a post session hunt for suitable so I can try it out next week.
So this is the position I reached with our seasonal stitch as my BFF calls it.
CLICK HERE to see her progress. Now before deciding on the double kit as SAL 23 we had discussed moving onto something a bit bigger afterwards, we do like to vary the size and style. We had decided on a designer and a few potential images. However, when mentioning it towards the end of the stitching session neither of us could recall what it was. None of it, source image designer theme! We looked at each other aghast. Minds blank we scrabbled for anything to jog our memory. Mmm errm oh it was something she had not something I had. It was a bit bigger than a kit but not massive? It was ?? An then suddenly she remembered and we laughed so hard we were in tears at the madness of it. And then sent a message in messenger saying what it is just in case we forget again!
I am a bit late posting, too tired on Wednesday evening and other things on Thursday (more on that later) so my BFF was first to it this week.
and did not want to start anything new or work on anything complicated.
Needed a something.
So, well knitting, no not That cable project but another long term project that was once intended to be a waistcoat but is no longer.
It is wool from my BFF, a big ball of wool (dress making scissors for size reference) and after a few rows the fidgets were gone.
Then back into the bag it went, project hibernation once more.
I did sew last week, just white and I did not post as the picture was not that different from the week before as the white is not easy to see.
This week I finished the "reachable" and "easy to see" white. Rewarded my self with a few stitches of pink in a central spot and a shape that would have been suitable for a post yesterday. I then moved onto a very pale grey.
Hm so pale it is not that easy to see even next to the white.
on a close up ? Maybe a bit better.
but not a final finish. Backstitch completed, with some individualisation to compensate for the skinny head of my cow.
made for an interesting expression.
We had a slightly different stitching arrangement for the night, Roni can tell you about that. And we both felt perhaps a pointy needle would have made the backstitch easier.
Then thinking of the differences between out finished stitches I suggested they would make a good spot the difference game which lead to our attempts to take pictures of both together. Mine in hand and Roni's on screen.
I think Roni's picture of hers in hand and mine on her screen will have worked better once she posts it.
We have plans for SAL 23, which makes a change.
