Monday, November 03, 2014

Mega Mini Month Madness - November post #2

I didn't expect to have another post so soon, but tonight I started on the lovely Four de Lys by Ink Circles, which at about 75x75 stitches isn't exactly mini, but close enough. :)  It's not solidly stitched so it works up fast, this is at least 10% done already.  And I swear this only took about an hour.


The colors aren't great but I'm using a nice blue/green silk thread on a piece of raw (I think) Belfast.  This wasn't what I originally wanted to stitch, though!  I had a cute magazine cover kit for Christmas ornament tags, but apparently I can't get along with Aida (which is kind of odd to type as that's my MIL's name, ahaha):

Warning for somewhat icky pic but I didn't actually hurt myself!


Oops.  I pushed too hard trying to do a quarter stitch (seriously, on Aida? screw that!) and got it caught under my skin.  When I pick this little kit up again, I'll be using some linen!

Hopefully everyone else is having an uneventful stitching week. :p

10 comments:

  1. Love your Ink Circles piece and the thread you're working with. How cool to be called Aida! And Ouch! We must stop with these extreme hobbies.

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  2. Your stitching piece looks pretty!! I thought the pic is about your nail paint but after seeing second time, I would like to believe it was about nail paint :)
    I usually soak aida fabric and iron it out, it becomes soft . I sew the edges before soaking else they start fraying.

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  3. Wow sweet stitching
    Looking so sweet..
    Ouch I hope it's ok..
    Hugs x

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  4. Great stat on your new stitch. I always doing stuff like that! Hope it is ok now.

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  5. Four de Lys is coming along beautifully! And I feel you on the quarter stitches and aida - the Christmas Mice by M. Sherry came with aida and I quickly remembered how much I hate quarter stitching on it.

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  6. Lovely new start, the colour of the thread is lovely. Ouch, I have to say I hate doing these half stitches on Aida!

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  7. Love your new start so far. Have fun ditching the aida for linen! :)

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  8. Hello!

    I've just joined this SAL. Your stitching looks lovely. I would rather stitch on linen too (:
    Love your nail varnish!

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  9. Quarter stitches on aida are much easier with Bohin Petite needles. I tried it this week. They are sharp though so be careful!

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  10. Ouch! I'm curious as to who took the photo though?

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