with metallic water colour paints on black.
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| Christmas trees |
with the back stitch done
all becomes clear .
I did make a small ohps but I don't think it too obvious or distracting from the feel of the pattern.
This is a cover kit from WOX.
so for me this time that equalled felting.
Stabby stabby
Through a template this time, something I saw on a Facebook video.
I think it is working, but I don't expect to be sharing the result for awhile.
I rather enjoyed seeing the progress Roni was making on her RAL this evening.
well a frame. It has been waiting a long time to get a frame. I finished this 13 years ago and like my dragon from my friend it has waited such a long time (and yes it is still the same carpet on the stair, been the best carpet ever)
So at last E.T the Snowman will go on display for Christmas this year, having benefited from the little framing splurge my BFF instigated.
I saw a little kit in the charity shop for 50p. Ah I am a sucker for 50p items.
I started putting it together but I had issues with the glue, it would not stick so well and then a bit went an odd shade.
So I put it away, waiting on me remembering to get glue that was strong enough.
And then there was glue, and a few little pearls added from my stash to cover up the yellowed spots and
ta da !
He does have a slightly gloomy look about him. Perhaps that's just me .
Nice for 50p, well plus glue, which was also bought for sticking other things.
This is how the kit looked when I bought it.,
I have had letters to the WOX published in the past, A wedding sampler ,A dog a lady in dress and cone figures
After completing the snow man and the reindeer, I had another cone kit arrive with the WOX .
I added pearl beads and a bow to this one.
took a picture of the whole group together
And sent it off to the WOX and to my surprised delight it was published as Star Letter. I am currently subscribing so no rush to the shops or e-bay to get a copy this time.
I have waited to post about this for the prize to arrive.
I will admit that the delight over the Star Letter has been somewhat tempered by my father being unwell at the moment, receiving the three kits perked me up just a little. I have other project that I am working on to keep my sanity, so nice as these kits are I don't expect to be starting them immediately.
Perhaps for next year.
The Zoom meeting was more successful this time, the speakers easier to hear (there was a slight echo) , the music and singing was still not audible.
But it was appreciated progress, and nice to see a few familiar faces.
There was not a lot of stitching time due to technical adjustments and checks to see if I could get rid of the echo. And an attempt at the closed captions which had such difficulty with the local accents it was no assistance whatsoever.
So a bit of sewing to the Songs of Praise on the BBC, to give my mother the singing missed.
An act of total BFF'ness in helping me out of a sleep depriving situation shared said sleep deprivation around which resulted in no off camera SAL stitching and the prospect of dotting about being a bit daunting. So SAL became RAL.
For me that was adding the back stitching to a project planned for posting next month and which made so much difference to the weird look of just the cross stitch.
although you could probably make a good guess.
Then back to needle felting and that hand, no picture of that for now.
I was intending t post this on Thursday, having been too tired Wednesday. However, before that could happen another episode of sleep deprivation occurred, the situation started and ended earlier but felt in its way even more draining as this trip to A&E ended with me leaving my loved one at the hospital.
Happily just an overnight stay for monitoring. Another friend helped me get home in the wee hours of the morning. Today I am waiting for him to come home, the hospital are arranging transport, I don't / can't drive. But they could not give a time. They said he could go 5 hours ago and still waiting for him to be home. So update blog to pass the time as I sit and wait.
CLICK HERE to see my BFFs post.
my Pen Pal sent me a cross stitch of a Dragon (yes she knows me well) a large magnificent dragon sewn on black and with blending filament which is not the easiest of things to work with.
I have had it for more years than is reasonable waiting on the right frame. I thought I found one but it was too small.
Then, well it became a thing to look for, the dimensions saved onto my phone just in case I came across the right frame.
Then this November my BFF and I were talking about frames and the unframed pieces we have both accumulated (although mostly our own work and not that of others) and as I recalled my waiting dragon she said that she might have just the frame.
She kindly popped over with it, I popped the dragon into the frame and then the frame onto the wall and I am delighted with my gift in a gift now on my wall.
and he is off the first page of the pattern. So I would allow myself a bit of knot work and the soothing use of one colour. I had contemplated doing the ones at the cardinal points a different colour. Then nah! a tiny bit of keeping it simple occurred and I will do them all the same.
well, the life issues have for the moment gone beyond a level this distraction helps with so there will be a pause with this I think.
