Maddie's pillow is finished. I asked Vicky at Needle Nook of La Jolla to send it to the person who does Kelly Clark's finishing. I really like things I've seen on Kelly's website, and wanted it to have the same look. I think it will look great in Maddie's room.
Ok, Ok, I'll try to get a picture of the cow. Not today, though. Probably tomorrow.
Keep stitching while I'm out snapping photographs.
She's off the frame -- we just have to decide if we have the pillow made with bits of the fabric from all the crib bedding. I'm sort of thinking so....that means we wait until Thanksgiving to bring the angel and the fabric together and then send her off to be finished.
Jane of CH had the idea of a bow in her hair, which I liked until I finished the hair. I decided that adding a bow would be gilding the lily. Her hair is a bit over done, but I thought it was appropriate as Amanda and I both have enough hair for 3 people -- this came from my mother, who also has a ton of hair. The odds are the grandbaby will have that gift/curse, too. Additionally, the odds are that she'll have red hair -- that's why I made the hair auburn --Amanda has red (strawberry blonde) and Matt sort of does, too. I had burgundy hair once, but that's a different story. Now that I'm thinking about it, my son had a blue hair phase, too. HMMMMMMM........
Originally posted November 9, 2007
Finally, finally I have gotten far enough along to think Miss Madeleine/Charlotte/Natalie is worthy to post -- these are the 3 names in the running for the grandbaby.
It's hard to see because it's black, but the background is a Brenda Hart stitch -- I noticed it when looking for a stitch for Lauren's stocking and decided to use it for this piece. I need to go back over it and put in a little metallic stitch to jazz it up ever so slightly (this is part of the stitch, not my idea). I worked on the bullion knot hair today and my fingers got sore so I switched to the wings -- I think they need some more research. Since the shading/pattern is irregular, I thought I might be able to make a buttonhole stitch work, but it's not working out as I thought. I just hate to do basketweave on it -- I'll have to get the books out again!! Maybe something that runs on the diagonal that's easy to shade -- we'll see. Other than that, she's almost done -- just her cheeks are left and the rest of her hair, and she's off to the finisher.
I actually took Frida off the frame yesterday and will take her to be framed this week -- that's a major milestone. Do you ever work on something so long you're sort of sick of it by the time you finish it? I guess that's why we have UFOs -- but I try not to. I'm hoping when I get her back from the framer, she'll be so beautifully enhanced that I love her again.
I drove up to Austin today and stitched with the ladies who stitch at The Needleworks shop every Tuesday and Friday. They are great stitchers and lovely people -- aren't all stitchers?? One lady was working a piece for her soon to be born grandson -- he's due 9 days after our baby. It was rabbits around the border and a spot for his name in the middle -- very, very nice -- stitch guide done by Kim, who works in the shop. Each rabbit had its own personality, I thought. Here's the link to the shop. They have the best selection of threads among the shops I've been in here in TX. http://www.theneedleworks.com/
Once the angel is finished, I'll be starting on Lauren's stocking -- with Kelly Clark's March Santa mixed in when we travel for Thanksgiving. Lauren was here last weekend and we told her it might be 2009 when she sees it finished -- they take soooooo long -- I hate to think I won't stitch anything else while I'm doing that -- which pretty much puts us into Christmas 2009 to see it finished.
It's blustery here in San Antonio today -- overcast, very windy and in the low 60s -- which makes me think "comfort food for dinner and a fire in the fireplace." Crazy how I would have pulled out the shorts in this kind of weather when I lived in Indiana!!
Happy Stitching, friends.
My daughter is expecting a little girl in December -- our first grandchild. In addition to many other things, a new grandbaby means SHOPPING opportunities!! Especially for needlepoint. I had a vague idea of the colors Amanda was considering for the nursery, and she brought a bunch of fabric samples with her to visit in San Antonio for the weekend.
We haven't settled yet on the exact selections, but here's a preview of one that we're looking at along with the Kelly Clark angel canvas I bought when I went (with my blogging friend, Kelly) to The Stitching Post while we were at seminar. (I also got 2 of Kelly Clark's topiary tree canvases which match it all perfectly.)
Now how cute is that??
Originally posted September 2, 2007
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