DEAR MOTHER OF FAIRY....

Dear mother of fairy,

Please help me speed up and finish this. I feel extremely energetic start stitching it in the morning and terribly frustrated when the day is over and nothing much done T.T I feel super depressed :(

Before

After

AND WHEN CAN I HAVE THIS  ↓

A bad bad week with stitching and lost floss package

I have been struggling on making progress with DCD. While stitching page 10, I realized that I gridded wrongly and as a matter of fact, I have to frog and frog. Oh I can't tell how much i hate frogging. It really make me feel less interested in stitching this. So I gave it a good wash and gridded again.

BEFORE

AFTER

Another bad thing come to me is the post office lost my floss package worth nearly 100 bucks. And they claimed that they delivered it 3 days ago! oh what a shame for them cause I have been staying at home the whole day and received nothing. Should I expect to receive my stuff back? Maybe not... what a bad week. Sigh


For those who are curious what kind of pen I used to grid my fabric:

To wash, I mixed a small amount of shampoo with luke warm water, let the fabric absorb and the color will be gone within 1 hour. 

'Autumn' SAL 6th post: You'll see more roots and fire!

Stitching 'Autumn' is not an easy job. Probably the most complicated piece I've ever put my hands on. But I hope it does pay off. I can see every single root appears with all the lights. I feel like I can nearly touch it. Another page finished and my journey still continues.

And as a matter of fact, I decided to buy a cone of 3371. Best thing I've ever done :D

Hope you guys enjoy and don't forget to visit Pull the other thread blog to see more!

Yo' guys are wondering what am I up to? New start and Updates

Hi folks

I have been disappeared for a while. You know it's hard to keep your blog updated when your stitching mojo went for vacation! Hang on, summer is over. it's autumn, you've gotta come back to me LOL.

So as you might know, I have several of W.I.P now but not all of them get my hands on it all the time. I know it's a shame but people's taste change and I know I can't focus on it if I find no interest. So in the mean time, I focus on what interested me most: my SAL 'Autumn' with Pull the other thread, Dandelion Clock Dance and my brand new start: "Ryo" by Haruyo Morita.

Here you go the picture and the link to HAED website:

This has been chosen as my new start thanks to some of my fellow stitchers on Official fan page of HAED on Facebook. They said I should give it a go, and here it is, my first page done:

And I am glad I did make this start cause the color changing is amazing. You might not see it vividly here due to the quality of the picture. Please STITCH it to FEEL it. And I am loving it.

To the very last note of this post, here is my little current progress on DCD:

And I will see you soon in the next post to tell you about the updates of 'Autumn'. Please come back on 15th!

xoxo

Gwen

Autumn, a season of love

Hi guys

Autumn has finally arrived here in NJ. I see squirrels jumping everywhere with their favorite acorns! I have not seen anything like this for such a long time. How lovely!

Autumn is a season of love for me and today is our 1st wedding anniversary. Unfortunately, my DH got to be at school the whole day so I am celebrating alone with my threads and needles lol. I managed to finish this today after several days struggle. Yes, a finish - a non-haed.

I have not been stitching anything other than HAED these days so this definitely makes a come back! This beautiful pattern is from one of my subscribed cross stitch magazine called CROSS STITCHER (Issue Sept 2012). Designed by Lesley Teare, these cow parsley really a hidden beauty. It is relly simple to stitch. Even with only 3 colors, it brings the delicacy and the brightness to my beautiful autumn day. An absolute comfort.

So here is it

Stitched on 28 count vintage linen
2 over 1 including full stitch and back stitch
Finished design: 14" x 14"
They said it will take 32 hours, ugh, it only happens in my dream. it took me 5 days of stitching

You may see some stain on the top. I accidentally dropped my pen there! What a shame right! Oh now it needs a good wash and hopefully it will be ok (cross finger). After my pillow form and backing fabric arrive, it should be transferred into a beautiful Oxford pillow ... if only I find out how to make it lol

Have a lovely stitching season my friends!

xoxo

Gwen

SAL 5th post: Autumn by Jacek Yerka

So I continue my journey with Yerka from last month. Here is the result:

This is where I ended last month

and result of this month.

Do you think it looks more and more interesting? I can't wait!

For a minor thing, I realized that putting it on Qsnap made me stitch so much faster, just because the tension and the focus area was just right. I do not think Millenium frame is bad, just that the fabric is much bigger than the frame I had and it will loose the fabric tension when you fold fabric from both sides.

Please take a look on Pull the other thread 's blog to see the other edge of this piece!

Best,

xoxo

Gwen

P.S: To compare the progress of each month, please click on my SAL tab or here

An Update on Dandelion Clock Dance

Hi guys

it took me a long, long time to settle down here and another long, long time to pick up my needle and start stitching.

I wanted to finish DCD so bad but at the same time, it made me feel so much pressure to continue :-( Therefore this piece was abandoned since my very last post and here it goes after I took my breath back. I do really hope that I will enjoy it more than before.

So as you can see, a dandelion's leaf and the rest of the fairy's wing appeared. Can't wait to see more of it?

xoxo

Gwen