Xandra's Projects 2012 -UPDATES 20/07

[Lili]

lovely work! the colour is so pretty!
make a little pillow

[tiffstitch]

Great finish! And I applaud your thread choice as well, it's a nice rich colour.

[Cockneystitcher]

Love the design not seen it before and your chioce of colour.

[Juel]

It's beautiful
I think it would look fantastic as a cushion

[XandraS]

Here is my latest finish - Fancy a Darcy Day? by The Sampler Girl, I have Fancy a Jane day too, in fact it's currently being stitched.



Darcy was stitched on 32-count linen using Anchor Multicolor 1342.

Jane is being stitched on the same fabric but using peachy variegate instead (Anchor 1318)

[rcperryls]

very very pretty

Carole

[meerkat]

Lovely finish. I like the sentiment and Mr Darcy is very nice

[Mrs Milkybar Kid]

I love The Sampler Girl designs, great choice of thread by you! How will you finish it - as a pillow a la Sampler Girl?

[XandraS]

I love The Sampler Girl designs, great choice of thread by you! How will you finish it - as a pillow a la Sampler Girl?

Thanks Pillow is the current plan both for this one and Jane, unless I come up with something different

[Nachstenliebe]

I like how you used variagated thread!

[Rose]

[Lili]

very beautiful!!

[vanessanjf]

Great work

[love_stitching]

[dollystitcher]

Love it

[Cockneystitcher]

Nice finish,look forward to seeing Jane when finished.

[XandraS]

It's been a few weeks since my last update, should really have shown you Fancy a Jane Day?, but I had a minor catastrophe with coffee spilling on it. Luckily it was on the silhouette of her head so I frogged it and the fabric is fine, but I just can't get in the mood to stitch it up again right now.

I've stitched a few other things though.


This one is still a WiP as I ran out of thread, it a Blackbird design chart from their Trix or Treat Halloween booklet. The floss I used was Pumpkin, one of the new ones I got last week from Handmade by Nina. There is still the border to do and various little motifs, so I'll be putting in another order once I get paid

The next two are from JBW Designs - French Baby Carriage. Here is the somewhat lengthy story behind them:
In the first week of June my little brother called me and announced he was going to be a dad. It was a little bit of a shock as I still see him as being 10 years old, whereas he is actually 25 years and he and his girlfriend have been together for 5 years now. In any case, my mind immediately when into 'What can I stitch?'-mode. I found this chart, and had a look through my variegated threads to find a suitable one to use. I ended up with Dragonfloss Hugs with Stitches, because of the pinks and blues. They want a boy and when they told my mom they were expecting she immediately said, "Well you know you're having a girl right?" (she is usually right about these things), so I decided to tease them a little by doing both girl and boy colors.

Now, why did I stitch two? Well last week hubby's brother called and he and his wife as expecting as well. So my brother's little one is expected in Jan, and my BIL and SILs little one is expected in Feb, 2012 - the Baby Year!
So I stitched up the same design using different floss, Dragonfloss Generosity, a nice pastel colored variegate. I was going to mount them both on cards but can't find a big enough aperture card. Instead I'm going to try my hand at a flat fold finish. First though I need to find a nice alphabet and stitch Congratulation and Gratulere (which is Congratulations in Norwegian). They are both stitch on the same antique white cashel linen, but the second picture doesn't show the colors well at all.



I love JBW deisgns, there are quite a few others I wanna do

[rcperryls]

These are really great and using variegated threads was really smart. They are both the same designs but have such a different look. They would have made great cards. I don't know exactly what a flat fold finish is? They would each look lovely in a simple frame too.

Good work.

Carole

[XandraS]

Thanks Carole

Here is a link to a great flat fold tutorial, if you scroll down to the bottom you'll see the finished result

[Pengwenn]

Lovely projects and I hope you finish them all.