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afew days ago i finished the last few stitches on my john clayton elegance lady called jayne and i framed and gifted it to my grandma for her birthday i have now decided i need to complete bob the builder i am determined to have it done and out the way so i can concentrate on my haeds i had jayne soooo close to complete when i became addicted to mystic stitch and haed and i decided it needed finishing im very pleased to say i have completed a project in 2010 lol

Busy_B wrote:I've picked up Castles in the Air again. Hopefully it will move from the UFO status to WIP status.

I hope so BB. As it goes along the parts stich up really quickly in fact after pt 4 (the peacocks) it only takes a couple of hours per part.

I love watching the Castles in the Air projects - it'll be good to see this one going again

Great progress on the HUG cushion; such a cheerful and quirky design!

Lizzy wrote:Thought it was about time I finished this little Pansy so I'll work on it and start today

Oh Lizzy.. this is pattern so detailed. Could you send me information on this design please. Such fun colors, this just screams SPRING to me!

Midge wrote:

Busy_B wrote:I've picked up Castles in the Air again. Hopefully it will move from the UFO status to WIP status.

I hope so BB. As it goes along the parts stich up really quickly in fact after pt 4 (the peacocks) it only takes a couple of hours per part.

Thanks for that info, Midge! It will be nice to have something stitch up quickly. Especially with the little bit of time I have for the rest of this month until DS is out of school. This week is crazy, so I definitely need to find stitching time.

MaggieM1750 wrote:

Lizzy wrote:Thought it was about time I finished this little Pansy so I'll work on it and start today

Oh Lizzy.. this is pattern so detailed. Could you send me information on this design please. Such fun colors, this just screams SPRING to me!

Hi Maggie, Its a mini stitch pattern from Artecy http://www.artecy.com/mini-flowers-cross-stitch.html" target="_blank" target="_blank
It is a nice pattern to stitch and I'm really pleased with it

With doctor's visits and drug induced lethergy I haven't worked on anything yet this month. I have a project I started almost two years ago but for some reason put it aside. It's a Wild Thing birth annoucement for my nephew (he's now almost 2 1/2 years old). I think I put it away because it was a kit and some of the colors were so hard to seperate and they didn't tell me how many threads there were of each which made it harder. I use to love kits, but I've grown to loathe them now. I'll post pics later.

I just started my SAL thread for this project. Hopefully I can finish it this year.

No progress on my Spirit of the Rose as I have been poorly for the last six days..hope to be stitching it next month

Oh dear, I've missed this thread for a couple of months! I haven't had a UFO of my own to join in with and all my current chaos has had me going online much less and missing all sorts.

Anyway, looks like everyone has been getting on great with their UFOs. I have decided I will try and join in with the June session as my Mystic Stitch Indian & Wolf (which is supposed to be my morning project) has been getting abandoned as I haven't been able to find stitchy time in the mornings for a while. I will have moved house by the beginning of June so at least there will be less for me to do and I might be able to buckle down and finish another page of the Indian.

My week isn't going as well as I'd like. I knew I had made a mistake in the Panda's right foot but I modified the pattern and got something to work. Yesterday I was stitching the Panda's belly and the left and right sides weren't matching up. Turns out I had made a mistake in the placement of the Panda's right hand (which eventually caused the mistake in the right foot) now the belly was off. And after 5 minutes examining the pattern, the picture and what I did wrong I realized it's going to throw off the enitre square. I'll have to make modifications to the Pandas face too. Not looking forward to that. I got so digusted that I put it away and read a magazine for the rest of my lunch. Now I'm even more reluctant to pick the thing up and work on it than I was before. If it wasn't a kit I might consider froggin the whole right side and doing it but I'm worried about ruining the floss and not having enough to finish.

I managed to finish the H one day early so now one to do some more birthday cards for later this month.

Here is a pic of my complete progress on the HUG cushion


and here is just the H

Pengwenn, I am sorry you have problems with the panda.

Xandras, the H looks really beautiful, such vibrant colours!

I have been working on my folk pattern cushion, want to finish a whole line of pattern, will post a photo at the weekend.

That H is really cool......

Sorry for all of the problems with the Panda. Are you sure you can't frog some of it???? How far in are you????

Oh dear.... Can you show a pic of the where the mistake is? maybe it's not really that big of a deal and people won't notice.......

Lovely H, XandraS! So vibrant and colorful
Faith

Xandras, lovely work! This is so bright and cheerful, I'm looking forward to the next update.

This week is the first time that I was not able to stitch on my UFO due to family commitment and upcoming Mother's Day. I will try again next month.

socialsue

Well, I was never fond of a purple panda so I've been considering frogging it out and using black and white (with gray's for shading) so he looks more natural. I'm a little worried about the black and white background zebra stripes in the top left square making it look like too much black and white in the piece.

Pengwenn - sorry about the problems with the panda design. Maybe you'll feel like dealing with it if you have a break from it for a little while.

Xandra - Lovely neat stitiching. Love the vibrant colours.

Finished the Pansy but haven't got the camera till tomorrow afternoon so I'll put a pic up then.

This thread was just the push I needed

Pengwenn sorry about the trouble your having with your design, it will all come together for you