PR SAL Fairy Top is Complete

I finally finished the top section of my fairy from Passione Ricamo.  The edging is beautiful.  I love all the beading and the metallic threads are fun to work with.  I love the Rainbow Gallery metallic threads.  They are my new favorite threads (sorry Weeks Dye Works).  This piece is going to be so beautiful, if I can ever get it finished.

PR fairy before



PR fairy after

Finally Able to Say Goodbye

In February, we lost a treasured member of our family.  ChiChi was a unique kitty.  He hated us all with a passion unlike any other.  He peed on my laundry.  He hissed at me when I walked in the room.  Then he went senile and forgot he hated us.  The last few years with him, he snuggled in my lap and even purred at me every now and then.  As mean and ornery as he was, he is truly missed.  I've spent the past month remembering him and stitching a memorial for him.  Here's a memory for my beloved Home Cheese.

New Year's Progress

Rose Tree Stocking

One of my new year's resolutions is to finish projects.  Any kind of project is up for grabs.  I've got a ton of UFO's that need to make a landing!  So here's step one to my goal.  I finished one of my felt stockings I began a LONG time ago.  Well, it's done.  Not only is it stitched, but it is finished.  It is a stocking ready to hang by the fireplace.

Mystery SAL

Mystery SAL

Another Thursday; another section completed.  Tonight I finished part 6 of my Mystery SAL.  This was the winged section to the left.  Then, when Bethie and I looked, we figured out I was only two months behind!  I added the hardanger section to this one.  I'm getting more comfortable with the cutting part. 

New Year, Fresh Start

PR SAL

As you can tell, I was bad about updating my blog toward the end of last year.  Things got so crazy I wasn't even doing much stitching.  If it wasn't for Bethie coming over once a week, I wouldn't have gotten any stitching done at all!  Thanks to her visits Thursday and Friday, I finished part 3 of my PR fairy SAL.  That means I'm now only 3 months behind.  Now for a break to stitch on my Around the World in 80 Stitches SAL.

Hurricane Isaac

Fairy before Isaac

Well, since there wasn't much to do otherwise, I got some more stitching done.  I'm still trying to finish part 2 of my Passione Ricamo fairy.  I completed the top border, got a large chunk of the background finished, and almost completed the moon.  That was a lot of stitching considering I was also babysitting Daddy.


Fairy after Isaac

My Passione Ricamo Fairy

PR Fairy Before

PR Fairy After

I got the back-to-school crud this weekend.  I wasn't majorly sick, but I did get a lot of stitching done because there wasn't much else I could do.  I finished the entire first page of my Fairy SAL.  That's a good thing because the next part of my Papillion SAL came in and I haven't started it yet.