Sunday, December 31, 2017

2018 Stitching Plans!

aka look at Rahenna lie about being disciplined yet again. :p

I recently decided to be more relaxed about goals and progress, so this year I'm not going to list all my WIPs and make goals for every single one. Instead, I'll include the ones I'm most excited to make progress on, plus some new starts, of course.

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WIPs to work on in 2018:

I plan to make Nora Corbett Raven and Poppy my first two finishes of the year.


It's kind of hard to see, but I did replace a number of colors in Raven to make everything match better. I pulled out the two darkest purples and replaced them with two of the brand new DMC purples, and I changed the lightest purple to one that's darker and has more of a blue tone. Now the entire thing is in blue-leaning tones of purple and it looks a million times better.

Poppy is going to take a lot more work - her skirt is huge! But she's looking good so far.

As for other WIPs:
- complete Dream of the Sea kit by Hands on Design
- complete Beaded Dragonfly Tile by Chatelaine (I think my ongoing issue with this is that the fabric is slightly too small, which makes it a struggle to work on. I'll sew on some scrap fabric and see if that makes a difference.)
- get at least halfway on Mushroom & Fern Mandala by Chatelaine (I started this a couple of weeks ago but I don't have all the materials, so I didn't get very far!)
- some progress on Chinese Garden Mandala by Chatelaine (I love this design but I've been so distracted by other things! Also need to put this on a bigger q-snap to make it easier to work.)

So yeah, it's kind of shaping up to be a Chatelaine year. I fell in love with Mushroom & Fern the moment I saw it, and that sparked my renewed interest in my other WIPs.

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New starts for 2018:

I haven't really decided what I want to start next year! There's a lot of patterns that are fully kitted or at least have fabric selected for them, but I'm not sure what I'll be in the mood for after working on a bunch of Mira and Chatelaine patterns. There's always the bucket list, of course, but I think I need to go over that again and make some changes.

Considering Prosperity Fae by Passione Ricamo, but on a dark green fabric so she looks very festive and holiday-ish.


Also considering either Dreaming of Daisies or Dreaming of Tulips by Rosewood Manor, to stitch on 45ct Vintage Lentil linen. Because I'm crazy.


I don't know, it's too hard to decide! There's about 25 charts all matched up with fabric already, and every time I look through them I want to make them ALL.

Friday, December 15, 2017

the parade of shame!

I've been stitching, I swear, but I don't have much to show yet. Poppy is a giant red blob, and I'm also working on a tiny Chatelaine freebie that I'll show once it's finished.

So instead, I thought it would be fun to show some pictures of all my completed projects that need finishing or framing! I took these to show to a friend of mine, but of course they fit in perfectly here on my stitching blog too. :3

They're a bit overexposed but hopefully you get the idea!








...I need to get busy, haha.

Tuesday, December 05, 2017

thanks Mii & Justine & OhSewCrafty!

I posted this as an edit to my original post but I wanted to make a new post to make sure everyone could see it in their feed, haha. I want attention. :p

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Hi guys! Thanks for your kind comments! I want to respond individually but for some reason I can't stay logged in on the main page of my blog, only in the admin section. I wish there was a way to respond to comments from the admin panel but it doesn't look possible. :(

Thanks for the support on Raven... I know I must seem nutty but I swear she looks different in real life. Maybe I'll change my mind after taking a break from her, though! Either way, a short time out will give me a chance to cool off and make a better decision. :)

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That said, is anyone else having login issues? If I click the login link in the upper right on my main blog page, it takes me to the admin panel, but if I go back to the blog, I'm logged out immediately! Maybe I need to send in a support ticket or something. :x

Monday, December 04, 2017

banished WIP and new start!

Well, now that I've started exercising my WIP-banishing powers, I feel perfectly justified in sending anything that annoys me to the "you sit here and you think about what you've done" bin.

I started Raven pixie by Nora Corbett soon after finishing Mermaid Azure and made a good amount of progress, but I've put her away for now. It's hard to tell from the picture, but the colors in the pattern are just... off. The darker shades of purple are very red purples, but the highlight colors are very blue-leaning purples, and they look so wrong together. Plus the highlight colors are too bright, and two of the three are almost impossible to tell apart! I know it doesn't seem bad in the photo, but it's ten times worse in real life.

I kept stitching despite not liking it, thinking that it might all come together after I got more done, but... nah. This looks awful. So now she's off to the bin of shame until I can figure out what I want to do. In other words, until my wife gets back to help me frog all the light colors. Haha.


So, while Raven's in time out, I'll start another NC project. I asked a friend to help me decide, and he chose Poppy as the winner. :)


The fabric is Picture This Plus Sterling, which will make her reds really pop! I'm excited to work on her because the color combo is so nice and she's been waiting in my stash for ages. :)

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Hi guys! Thanks for your kind comments! I want to respond individually but for some reason I can't stay logged in on the main page of my blog, only in the admin section. I wish there was a way to respond to comments from the admin panel but it doesn't look possible. :(

Thanks for the support on Raven... I know I must seem nutty but I swear she looks different in real life. Maybe I'll change my mind after taking a break from her, though! Either way, a short time out will give me a chance to cool off and make a better decision. :)