Trapped

It got cold in the Yukon. Yesterday temperature dropped to 40 below 0 and it was just to cold to drive to work. So I was trapped at home and I liked it! I stitched and stitched, and worked on my first assignment (I'm back to school again working for that accounting designation), cooked and baked. It was an awesome day! Today is even colder, so I'm trapped again and have tons on the agenda for the day. 

Yesterday I worked on my Project 1 form Crazy January Challenge (CJC) - Shiver me Timbers, here is the progress:

It is a lovely project to work on and made me fell in love with pirates. I have in my stash pirate Santa and he will be my Project 15 for the CJC!

Let's talk about other projects for the challenge:

Project 10 - Birds of a feather

now

and, when done

Project 11 - Heart of the Valley. Not a new start but it deserves to be finished.

 now

 

when done

Project 12 - Provence. Again, not a new start but I would love to finish this year

now

when done

Project 13 - Ships and shells from HAED

now

when done

Project 14 - Temple of Bastet. Yes, I know, you think I'm crazy but it is a Crazy January Challenge! This is another HAED design and since I only worked on protecting fabric edges and installing it on the scroll frame I do not have much to show you. What I can do, is to show you how the finish project will look like

Now I'm set with my stitching plan for 2011 and many more years to come. 

So long friends,

I have two real finishes!

I can't believe it, I actually finished something this weekend. Kelly, from I love cross stitching, challenged us to have a finish this week. I accepted the challenge and the results are unbelievable!

I long time ago I participated in Rene's hardanger class. I finished stitching alright but never bothered to turn that piece into something... Well, today I turned this beautiful piece into ornament and it is going as a gift to a friend.

 and since my little crystals were out and I was in the mood... I finished this heart. It was waiting some time for a day like today and mind you, this is my first heart ever!

And that's not all! I was also stitching a little. I started on Birds of a Feather from Victoria Sampler, here is the pic:

Not much, but that's the start. I hope that next picture will be better, this one doesn't show true colours...

So long my friends!

a little update

I received RAK (random act of kindness) from Shelley. She must know that I love tigers. Thank you so much Shelley.

And since the tragedy in Smolensk last Saturday, it is hard for me to stitch on my projects. So I joined the kissing pillow  project through my new guild and somehow I stitch those with a lot of passion. I decided to stitch 10 of them.

And I signed up for cyberclass from Victoria Sampler. The class starts today and it will run for three weeks. I'm working on Birds of a Feather:

I mentioned in earlier post, that this is a group project in the embroidery guild that I joined recently. But we are meeting only once a month and there are some specialty stitches that I think I'll need help with. And this is where the cyberclass will be very handy. For now I'm just preparing fabric and sorting floss but I should have a nice update next week.

So long my friends,

Evalina