Done!!!

Last weekend I was taking part in the International Hermit and Stitch Weekend. I love those weekends, thank you Joysze for hosting them. There was 98 of us! I've accomplish 2 things:

1. finished my audio book Nefertiti by  Michelle Moran, and
2. finished Thine is the Trick and the treat

This piece is done on the 28ct linen with Black Crow from The Gentle Art. If I would do it again, I would use just plain black DMC. The effect of over dyed thread wasn't as dramatic as I expected.

One thing less on my WIPocalypse 2012 list! Now I have to find a piece of nice black fabric for the back...

If you would like to see what others were working on this weekend click here.

So long my friends,
Evalina

Four down, two to go!

Yep, I just finished fourth page of Thine is the Trick and the Treat. Only two left to go!

I could not have done it without my little ZoomZoom's help. He was holding pages in place...

I also have a new start... Can you guess what it is?

and I was working on a long forgotten UFO

It is a lovely piece but I dislike to stitch on aida... This ornament I bought as a kit and instead of choosing another fabric I started to stitch on the one from the package. I do not mind the look of it, it is just so stiff and not very pleasant to work with. Anyway, I'm glad that I switched it's status to WIP, maybe I can finish it for Christmas...

So long my friends,
Evalina 

Another full moon and another WIPocalypse update

Well, here I am. Back from my Silent Retreat, energized and transformed. I will tell you about this retreat in the next post. Today I want to do a quick update on my stitching. I have finished Stitcher's Alphabet:

Under 'M' there is a little gold heart. I really wanted to put an embellishment there but all my hearts were just a little to big. At the end I stitched the heart with a blending thread. I think it looks OK. The finished piece is 6" by 6" and I think it would look lovely on the top of a sewing box. Now I'm on the mission to find a right box...

I also worked on the 'Thine is the trick and the treat' and, I must say, I'm very happy with my progress. I'm over half way done!

So long my friends,
Evalina

2012 WIPocalypse

I actually have a WIP update! About a year ago or so I started 'Thine is the trick and the treat' and for some reason I didn't look at it since... until Jo who can't think of a clever name of Serendipitous Stitching put a picture of the same chart on her blog. All of a sudden I've got the urge to stitch it again. But I have a problem. All my scroll frames and q-snaps are having projects on them and I promised myself that I will not buy any more of them. I have to finish the project and then I can put another one on. My 'Thine is the trick and the treat' was folded nicely and resting peacefully in a bag. I can't stitch in hand if is a nice soft linen and that project I'm stitching on a very soft linen. Now the urge to stitch is almost unbearable, it's painful - and no frames... Like a desperate addict I dived to the stash and - bingo! I found a few pairs of stretching bars  with interlocking corners. So, I made my own frame, pinned the project to it and start stitching. What a relief! Here is the progress:

During the week I was working also on 'Stitcher's Alphabet. I absolutely adore this project.

And this is how much I have done on 'Halloween House'.

Now I'm back to stitching!

So long my friends,
Evalina

It's a Halloween night

and the last day of the month.  October was a good month for me - I've got a new car (look how beautiful she looks after her "makeover")

I opened a new saving account and actually I made some money already! I was thinking about current stage in my life, how much longer I want to work and what I will do after... I do not like to work, really, the best scenario would be if I could retire but financially I'm not in that position yet...  so that's why I decided to save some more.

And I did some stitching! Here is my square for charity with outlined mushrooms. It looks much better, thank you for an advice.

I finished stitching for competition held in my yahoo group. Unfortunately I can't show it yet, I do not want to be disqualified. And I worked some more on TTT

After all I was so "witched out" and was looking for something brighter to work on. I pulled out couple of pieces from my UFO (unfinished objects) basket. An ornament that I've started a year ago:

and my oldest UFO... it must be around 18 years old. I made a mistake and left it on the back burner. Yesterday my sail boats saw the light again. I've frogged all mistakes (or most of them) and now I'm ready to work on it. That piece will be my first one for the 2012 WIPocalypse project.

Have a great spooky night!
Evalina