Stitching Up a Storm in Alamo City

Divine Miss M pillow is back!!

I got the pillow back!!

Love the finishing.   

Happy stitching.
Jane

One more thing about the Big M canvas

I forgot to remind you that the background was supposed to have pink dots all over it - at all the intersections - I think I counted about 200 places where I would put in either a bead or a fuchsia cross stitch. 

I was thinking I wouldn't do anything - just a white background - and my stitching buddies all concurred.   No polka dots.   Jackie said it would make the pillow able to grow up with Maddie - she said, "She can take it to college with her if you leave off the polka dots."   Wise lady.

So no dots.

Happy stitching.
Jane

This is Mr. Jake, napping on my lap.

Still alive. Still stitching.

I know you probably think I've gone to Salt Lake City to continue my genealogical search and have forsaken my needlepoint, but that is not the case.

There are days I really don't know what I accomplish, but I have been stitching a little bit now and then.

For starters, I actually FINISHED the Big M canvas.   I had a stitching weekend with my buds, and I finished this piece while we were there.  Colleen took it so she could send it to be made into an over the top, darling pillow.

I took the geisha cat with me to work on, but didn't take all the threads. 

Luckily I took the Russian Magi with me, so I got a lot of work done on him.  

Let's just see how long I can stay in the stitching mode now that I'm home.

Happy stitching.
Jane

Back at work on the big M

Even before the baby came and the wedding happened, I was stealthily working away on this piece.  And now I can see that it might be finished before too long.  It's close.

I think I'm going to have it sent to The Spinning Wheel in Houston to be finished.   They do the most luscious, over the top finishing, and I think that's totally appropriate for this piece.  Remember this little pillow I did?   They finished it.  

Maybe just maybe I can get this done.  I think it would the first finish of the year.  How pathetic is that?

Happy stitching and finishing.
Jane

I'm stitching, I promise

I'm working a lot on the big M piece.   I am trying desperately to finish it - and not put it down until I've done so.   The thought of another WIP is killing me.   So I think I can get this done in the next few days. 

I've finished about 2/3 of the 3rd layer.   Next I'll fill in all the open areas with seagrass, which will be a nice matte contrast to the almost 3 spools of Kreinik I've put in it so far.

I've almost talked myself out of putting beads on all the intersections.   I think the little Mill Hill beads would be too small, and since I need about 225 of them, I don't want to buy bigger ones.  Cha-Ching!!

Cross stiches of the fuchsia metallic will be FINE!!

Here's a close up, so you can see all the stitches inside the diamond shaped trellis.

Back to stitching!
Jane