HAED Wicca Progress 2 ...

Hello My Fellow Stitchers!!!

Well here I am 3 days into this pattern and I am really loving it!!! I know this is going to take me a long time to get this piece finished. But it doesn't matter. It's so fun & exciting so far. As I said before, one of my online stitching friends & I are stitching this one together, so to speak. We both started on Monday. Now, technically it is Friday (after 2 in the morning however) so we're 4 days into it. But today doesn't really count so far. And my friend stitches soooooooooooooo fast!!! I was intimidated & nervous about stitching along with her bcuz of how fast she stitches, however I am beginning to think that her lightening fast needle is motivating me a little more. Hopefully other areas of my life won't suffer bcuz of it tho. LOL. As you can see it is after 2am in the morning and I am still awake. And don't have plans on going to bed anytime soon bcuz I just want to stitch & stitch & STITCH!!! I am loving stitching this pattern. Anyway, so my friend started stitching this piece in the top center of the pattern & I started on the bottom center of the pattern. So our pieces will each look different as we progress. I have finished all the black on the page that I am working on. And so I thought I would post an update!!! And I also wanted to show you just how fast my friend stitches & post a picture of her progress so far. She has already finished a full page and is working fast on the next page.

So here is my progress so far ...




This is a close up of my progress so far on the page I am working on which is the middle page of the bottom of the pattern. I have finished all of the black on this page.



This is my progress so far from further back. I thought it would be good to show both views.



This is my friend's progress so far. This is the middle page of the top of the pattern. She has completely finished this page, which obviously has more stitches in it than the page I am working on. This lady has 4 kids, three of which are in school. And the fourth is a 2 year old who is home with her all day. I also have a 2 year old home with me all day. However, she did say that her 2 year old likes to play by herself all day while her siblings are at school. So my friend apparently gets a lot of quiet time to stitch for hours where as I don't have that luxury with my 2 year old. So I'm guessing that is how she is able to get so much stitching done each day. I am just in awe at how quickly she is able to stitch!

So I will post both of our progress as we stitch this piece!

Until Next Time,
♥ Margie ♥

HAED Wicca Progress 1 ...

Hi Again!

Well as planned, my friend & I started stitching Heaven and Earth Designs Wicca today (technically yesterday since it's now 2:20am on the 20th). I didn't get as much as I wanted to get done for the first day. I got a late start (my kids actually let me sleep in YAY!), and then there other things that I had to take care of. I also took time to go to Kinkos to get enlarged copies of the pattern. I started stitching it from the regular sized printout and I decided it would just be easier to enlarge the pattern. So I started stitching the design in the bottom center of the pattern. And here is my progress so far!



There is a lot of black in this pattern. And I was very surprised to see how many colors are in this pattern. It's funny though, there are 2 colors that have only 1 stitch in the entire pattern. And a few other colors that have 12 or less stitches in the entire pattern. I am so excited to have started this piece. And I can't wait to watch it come alive as I stitch it. Of course my progress so far doesn't look like anything yet. But eventually it will. I have no idea how long it will take me to stitch this piece as I've never stitched a pattern of this size before. And I am sure I will have days when I'm not able to stitch anything on it at all and others where I make a lot of progress. My family & I are going on vacation in mid March, and I already know I won't be taking it with me. I will take small patterns to work on while I am on that trip.

So that's it for now, my 1st days progress on HAED Wicca!!!

Until Next Time,
♥ Margie ♥

Round Robin #1 Progress ...

Hi Everyone!

As promised, here is a picture of my progress so far on the angel for the first round robin. As I said before, this person picked angels as their theme. The stitching area allowance for this piece is 70x70. I chose to stitch the 1999 Lavender & Lace Christmas Angel. I think she is a very pretty design. And I love the use of specialty floss. I haven't done any of the stitching of the specialty floss as of yet. I like to save that for last.

So here she is so far!



I think she is coming along nicely.

Until Next Time,
♥ Margie ♥

My First 2009 Finish!!!

Hello Everyone!!!

Lil Stitch Devil is COMPLETE!!! I will be ironing & packaging him up to be sent to my friend in Canada so she can stitch the next section! Each person will stitch a different Lil Stitch Devil, although I won't know which one they are stitching until the piece comes back to me all finished with a total of 4 Lil Stitch Devils on it. There are a total of 8 Lil Stitch Devils designed by EMS. So there's no telling which ones they have planned. I am very excited about it & can't wait till my piece finds its way back to me in a few months.

Well without further delay, here is my finished Lil Stitch Devil with Bobbin!!!



At first I was going to do my signature in one of the darker reds. But I thought that with the location on the piece that I was going to stitch my signature, that it would look better to have one of the darker grays.

So now my Lil Stitch Devil is finished. Next I will be working on finishing the rest of the L&L 1999 Free Christmas Angel piece for the other Round Robin (aka Fat Bird) that I am in. Also on Monday I get to start my 1st HAED pattern!!! And of course I will continue to stitch my section of the Round Robins pieces that I get. Round Robin #1, Once the RR's are completely finished, I will work on stitching some holiday cards that I will be sending out in December to family & friends. It is such a cute pattern of a Sahuaro cactus with a Santa hat on top & xmas lights on it. Since we are in Arizona, I thought this would be really cute for holiday cards. It's a small & quick pattern, so it shouldn't take very long at all to stitch each one up.

Well that's about all for now! I'll post a progress picture of the Angel RR piece a little bit later on!

Until Next Time,
♥ Margie ♥