My hand dyed fibers!!!!!

Hi guys

I am so happy that after a long while testing, I came up with some of these beauties. Hubby go scared seeing me wearing mask and gloves walking around like a professional chemist LOL. Here is the sneak peak of my hand dyed fibers!

These are hand dyed  six strands cotton flosses 10 yards long! (about 1.3 yards longer than normal DMC). I started a group called FIBERLICIOUS today on Facebook so if you have time, please make a visit! I'll be extremely happy welcome you <3. First order will get 20% off total purchase!

Yahoo! Come back to my lab! :-p

Happy stitching guys

xoxo

Autumn SAL July post

Hi peeps

It's getting so much hotter here in the state. In this season, people here are crazy about BBQ and camping. I don't. I'd rather stay at home with my air-con on. Or I will be melted. I know I can fry an egg on the road right now with this freaking temperature so why should I fry myself out there! How is the weather at your side?

I also blame the hot weather for my slow progress in stitching. I don't feel like doing anything! Yeah, singing Bruno Mars' Lazy Song!!!

Don't be mad at me if I don't have much progress to show, only half a page done hehe

Na na na na I dont feel like picking up my needles cause today I swear I am not doing anything...Nothing at all whoo whoo LMAO

Have fun! And don't forget to check out Pull the other thread blog for her progress this month!

xoxo

Gwen

Updates on my current WIPS and new starts (Love Thy Thread and Color Cascade)

Hi folks

It has been a while since my last updates. I thought I should have something extraordinary to show you guys but I dit not catch up with the original plan I have in mind. Family matters, personal matters, life and etc. I also realized that I caved in too many new starts recently which make my progress look slower than it should be. Though how much I want to take it positively, I still feel incredibly guilty for not touching some of them for a long long time. I must learn how to deal with it or I seriously will end up stare at them and sigh instead of stitching.

OK, now it's picture time!

As you might know, I and Alicia aka Crafty Princess are SAL-ing a chart from Tilton Crafts called "World" by Heffernan. Please look through her blog as well to see how insanely she has done. Mine is pathetic LOL. I started from the middle so here is the first row of that page.

To get an idea of how it looks like when it finished, here is the original art

My progress on Magic Fire by Esmira (Paine Free Crafts)
 about more than 7,000 stitches done. I did not count LOL

Next is Dunlee Darnum by JB Monge (Tilton Crafts) 1,600 stitches perhaps

Sullenly Sweet by Sheena Pike (Love Thy Thread) not count how much i've done lol

New start: Roses are red by Sheena Pike (Love Thy Thread) I've mentioned about this in my previous post.

New start Dead Hearts by Logan Knight (Color Cascade Designs)

Original Art:

My stitching: First page DONE. This is such an incredibly detailed chart with heavy confetti alert. However, the result you get is very worth it.

New start: Guardian of Koi by Sabine Rich (Love Thy Thread) on 28 count Opal Lugana in Sweet Child O'mine hand dyed Fabby by Color Cascade Fabric.

Hope you guys enjoy and having a good time here in my blog. Leave a comment and see you next time!

Gwen

A pathetic update on Autumn SAL

Hi folks

Yes the title says it all. I am literally hanging in shame. There are only about 2,100 stitches done this month on "Autumn". I hardly can explain why I only stitched it last night T.T.  I think I'm pretty far behind Pull the other thread Lol. I keep being distracted by new starts and there you go a sinful serial starters.

xoxo

Gwen

Geeezzeee Daenerys is FINISHED!!!!

Muahaha Can you believe it I have another finish! She is my 4th finish of this year and I am not gonna stop *evil smile*

Here she is

Stitched 2 over 1 on 28 count evenweave in Ivory
Started date Feb 20
Finished date June 8
Total stitches: 90,000 (300 x 300)

Leave me a comment if you like her and give me an idea of which project should I finish next!

Enjoy!

Gwen

Updates on WIPS and new start(s)

Boo!

I have been disappearing~~~ I know!  I have been nursing my tooth so now I can eat my favorite crispy rice again woohoo! My Macbook gone wild the day before yesterday and as a result I had to spent the whole day queuing at Apple store to get it fixed. Not a pleasure experience at all. Despite from that, I think I did a good job with stitching. So here you go, stitching summary of May:

Daenerys by Love Thy Thread

Yes, she is nearly finished, 8 more pages to go. Have no idea why this blog makes her so grey, should be beautiful dreamy baby blue! Hopefully I can get her done in June!

Dunlee Darnum by Tilton Crafts:

Not done much on this recently, I was too busy stitching Daenerys! But hey, I got the owl done. i am not sure I will come back to this piece anytime soon because I found way too many distraction including these new starts:

Sparkle Love Thy Thread: Stitched 2 over 2 on 32 count Belfast in Opal Oberon (Hand dyed fabric by Steph) with hand dyed silks by Thread Pickerz:

And this: Sullenly Sweet by Sheena Pike

Original Art:

My stitching:

Isn't she pretty!!!!!

And more importantly, she has a companion, gifted to me by sweet Crafty Princess: Lithium

 To complete the collection, I also bought:

Ebony

Entrap

Roses are Red

All of these artworks are created by Amazing SHEENA PIKE in her Malevolence Collection. You can visit her artworks here. They are charted by Love Thy Thread Designs and can be purchased here. For those who love tea, she also has a tea and season collection. Here is one of them which I might buy when I have more penny to spend:

Tea in the Moonlight

So that's my stitching results in May! I hope you enjoyed it and leave some comments below which one you want to see most. I will try my best to crack it for ya!

xxx

Leave a sparkle wherever you go!

Gwen

Updates on 'Autumn' SAL May 2014

Howdy folks!

Apologies for lack of updates these days. I was not at my best condition to stitch. I am having terrible toothache which makes me unable to eat and sleep for a week now.  And guess what, all of my 'good friends' keep sending me their eating pictures!!! I am so pissed1 I want to eatttt and stitch. So I made Pumpkin Scone and Japanese Matcha (green tea) Sponge Cake to feed hubby! See how it turns out

They smell so good that I want to tuck in but hell no, my poor teeth might bleed. But I will come back STRONG.

Come back to the main topic :-D. I, anyhow, was able to have almost a page done this month. I want to have a completed page finished but I was not in a right mood. But see this guys, I want to jump in the picture, it really glows, doesn't it???

Leave comments below and tell me what you think! This page is a heavy confetti page so watch out!

And please don't forget to visit Pull the other thread's blog to see her amazing progress this month. I will come back shortly.

Happy stitching!

Gwen