Disney / Kinkade Cinderella UPDATED February 4 PAGE 2

[elementaryteacher77]

That is gorgeous picture. I have never seen a Kincade/Disney creation...very cool!

You have made fantastic progress...keep us posted!

aian11...it looks VERY intimidating to me too!!!

[purvislets]

Great progress so far! Do you have anymore updates? I just started working on mine again and I'm so glad to see other people working on it as well.

BTW, with my kit the floss was not presorted and it was a NIGHTMARE to sort out myself. It took quite a few hours if I remember correctly. I ended up sorting everything into small plastic baggies that had holes in them so I could put them on metal rings. It's not the most efficient, but it works for me since I have somewhere I can put all the little extra threads that are small but still usable.

[avna]

Hi everyone,

I’m very very sorry for the very long overdue update. My last post was over a year ago! Shocking!
They say time flies when you’re having fun. Well, last year I had a lot of fun but was also very busy. Trying to find a new job (had many interviews which takes time to prepare properly), I’ve been a volunteer for the local council, we sold our apartment and bought a house after a long search. The last few months I’ve been pretty busy campaigning for the elections for our local council (almost 7 days a week, 18hours a day working on that). The downside of all of this was that I hadn’t time for my stitching project . The good news: I finished the garden inspirered sampler for my father’s birthday just in time; got elected for the local council, and our house feels now more like a home than a house.
Now everything seems to be more calm, I picked up my project: Cinderella of Disney/ Kinkade. I promiss, it won’t take another year for a new post and I'll add pictures next time!

[avna]

As promised, hereby some pictures of the progress last year:

March 24, 2013:

The yellow stitches in the central zone are the top of the castle. I prefer to finish the sky first as I'm a bit afraid that I only want to stitch the castle and afterwards loose my stitching bug with all the purple, gray and blue in the sky that I than still have to stitch...

June 5:

Started with the castle

June 24:

Finished the castle (nearly), and started with the trees.

July 29:

Finished the big trees, started with the clock/ house

August 1:

Started with some corners, just to be sure it fits and I had enough of all the greens so wanted to do some other colours

September 9, 2013:

Filled in the lower left corner, and the bottom parts are now a bit more done.
Can you see in the bottom left corner the grey/blue hidden Mickey in the stones just above the tiles?

Still a long, long way from finished. The progress will slow down in the upcoming months as we're selling our apartment and are looking for a new home. That will take time

The goal:


Happy stitching everyone and a hug from Amsterdam,
Annemarie

[karen4bells]

Looking fantastic!!!!! And yes, I can see the hidden Mickey Mouse

[avna]

A half year later since the last photo update, and unfortunately still no progress...

In April 2014 I restarted with cross stitching this Cinderella one. I still like it, and now everything seems to be in calmy waters, I've found time to stitch again

At the start in April 2014:


Where I'm now at April 14:


A close-up of the stitching done last week:



It may seem odd to start in the middle in stead of finishing the left bottom corner. I totally agree, but I've got a good reason: I would love to tweak the charts a little bit and add some fun.
Like in the upper left corner, I followed the charts and stitched some brown stitches. But I didn't liked it and I think it's a mistake because in the example there are blue and purple stitches. So I deleted these brown ones and did some blue and purple ones:


No more brown stitches in the sky:


In the center (between the two big trees and the clock), there are two odd things: a blue and a red kind of stripe:

I have no idea what these are supposed to be, and I'm thinking of deleting these as well.

In stead of only deleting some things, I like to add some fun things as well. Kinkade did this when he made the painting:

If you look closely, you might see three fun things that he added:
1. hidden Mickey Mouse (in the lower left corner, just above the tiles of the roof and under his signature)
2. if you 'follow' the path to the upper right corner, you can see someone walking: Pinoccio! Why he's walking in the painting of Cinderella? I think Kinkade wanted to add some fun details to it
3. there's someone looking through a window in the upper center part. I'm not sure, but I think it's Snow White. Is it just me, or do you think it's Snow White too?

Inspired by Kinkade, I would love to add some fun things too. I'll keep some of them as a surprise and will reveil them when I'm totally finished, but I started with this one: Kinkade painted a brown dog beside the prince. As I'm totally in love with Westies (West Highland White Terriers) and would love to have one (okay, I wouldn't say no to two or more of them ), I'll tweak the charts and stitch a white/grey Westie in stead of the brown dog. To be able to do so, I strated with the contours of the Westie before I 've forgotten to do so. So that's the maybe odd reason why I haven't finished the bottom left corner first, but started in the center with the rough contours of the dog:


You might see it better in the whole picture:


That's all for now. Look forward to your comments and happy stitching everyone!

[bookknurd]

You've made a lot of progress. I love that you're making the piece your own. Keep up the good work!

[rcperryls]

Great progress! This will be lovely and special when you are done since it will clearly be your own! Saw Pinnochio and yes, I agree that is Snow White in the window. Couldn't find Mickey though.

Carole

[joyfuljenilee]

You have made some great progress with this! I love the little details you pointed out, and the ones you are adding - I think it's fun and important to find a way to make a piece your own. I will say you are braver than I am, with all of that cross country stitching! I just know I would miscount somewhere and have to frog thousands of stitches Looking great!

[littleturtlegirl]

Great update!!!! Keep up the stitching!

[avna]

Thank you all for looking, and especially for your kind and encouraging words!

rcperryls

Great progress! This will be lovely and special when you are done since it will clearly be your own! Saw Pinnochio and yes, I agree that is Snow White in the window. Couldn't find Mickey though.

Carole

I hope so!
Mickey is what they called a 'hidden Mickey' = you can only see three dots. One of these is bigger (his head) and the other two are smaller (his ears). Can you now find him in the picture as well as the others?

joyfuljenilee

I will say you are braver than I am, with all of that cross country stitching! I just know I would miscount somewhere and have to frog thousands of stitches Looking great!

Mr frog has visited me a few times . Sometimes I indeed had to start over again, but most of the times it was just a smaller mistake, e.g. I used a dark blue color for a flower and was supposed to use another dark blue while I couldn't see the difference. In that case, I will not frog these few stitches and get frustrated about it, but just keep on going and try to count more carefully
After finishing this one, I think I might get started with the Beauty and the Beast one that you have finished so lovely


By the way, I've found an video-update on youtube (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trM9wcYnKIQ" target="_blank). It's nice to see her progress as she seems to have done this totally cross country stitching. It's amazing . I tried to find her on this forum but failed. Does anyone of you know if she's also posting on this forum?

Happy stitching everyone for now, and happy easter for the coming days!

[stitchcrazy91]

This looks great! I am currently working on lion king. It's fun to do these larger projects!

[avna]

Hello everyone, hereby an update of my Cinderella project.

My last post was around April, so i'll start with a little recap:

At April 14 (2014) my Cinderella project looked like this:


At April 30 it looked like this:


In just two weeks time, I was lucky to have enough time to stitch.
It might not seem to be much, but I like the difference between these two pictures, and keep this in mind for some motivation.
But overal, it's a huge project and I'm far from even half way the finished project

Below will be two close-ups:



The next few weeks I think I will not have the opportunity to stitch much as these are the busiest weeks at work, and I'm off for vacation.
As I'll be trekking around south-eastern Europe, I'll gues I leave this Cinderella project at home to prevent it to become dirty or lost during travelling...

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After returning home from an impressive journey through the Balkans, I somehow lost my stitching bug. When I saw the project laying on my desk, I thought like "let's stitch today" but I couldn't/ wouldn't pick it up and really start stitching. But last week I restarted finally

At the start of August, it looked like this:


At August 8 it looked like this:

Sorry for the crappy picture. The camera on my phone isn't that great... At least it gives you an impression of the progress. Next time I'll use my 'normal' camera again

Happy stitching everyone!

[rcperryls]

You have made lovely progress! Quite a bit down in a week! Looking forward to your next update!

Carole

[avna]

Thank you Carol!
Thankfully there were less confetti stitches and I had nearly a week long break, so I could make some progress on all the different shades of green at the bottom of the pattern.

[Rose]

Oh it is lovely and big projects like this do take time so enjoy it when you can and don't fuss over the speed!!!!!

[avna]

I am so sorry for this long overdue update. I have been stitching during the past 1,5 years, but not as much as I hoped. Honestly, I thought that Cinderella would have been framed by this time . But nevertheless, here are some progress photo's:

The goal:


At the end of April 2014 it looked like this:


August 8, 2014:



After this, I somehow lost my stitching bug and have been busy with other projects. But after nearly a year I picked this up again...

At the end of July 2015:


At the end of September 2015:


From October onwards we've been busy renovating our house, so I kept Cinderella in a closet to save her from all the dust .
Finally, she came out of the closet and at January 10, 2016 she looked like this:


And now at February 4, 2016 this is where I am now (working on the tree just above Cinderella's head):







Looking forward to your comments. Happy stitching everyone!

[rcperryls]

You are making lovely progress!!

Carole

[Squirrel]

It is lovely to see this one again and you are making good progress in spite of having to stop for the renovations. Well Done. Looking forward to the next update.

[fccs]

Its beautiful!