Renee's Fractal White Tiger February 2016 Update

After 2 months of progress on my Charting Creations "Fractal White Tiger" chart, featuring artwork by Ricky Barnard, I have 3,618 of 174,300 stitches completed. (My goal was at least 900 stitches a month, so I am happy with the progress!)

Last month, Dede asked if I could add a coin to the photo so you could have a better idea of the scale of this piece. All of the stitches in this photo fall within a 3 x 3 inch square.

The photo to the right shows my progress last month. 

This month, I added 2,107 stitches.

I think this is one of my favorite cross-stitch projects to date. It does not look like a tiger yet, but I just love seeing all of the colors coming together. 

February 2016 - Christmas Contest Suteki

Well, I didn't do so well in February. I only worked on Suteki for two weekends of the month due to finishing up rows on other WIPs. I left off last month here:



And, after 83.63 hrs total, am now here:
I really wanted to have this row finished by the end of February, but oh well. Due to other commitments, I won't be stitching much on her in March or April either...looks like I'll have some making up to do in June!

February Letting Go Update

January 29, 2016

February 29, 2016

Just a little bit of progress, not much.

~Sarah

February - Unspoken

I hope I am not posting this at the wrong time!

Here's my 'Unspoken' for this month - if you see the purple arrow at top right, that is the middle of the top row! :D :D :D  Only a couple stitches are there, but I'm still happy to have reached it :D

Tama

No progress.

Hello my darling friends! No progress here on January and February, sorry.
But I will be here on March.
See you letter!
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
★ Ana Cristina ★

February Update

Nada, zip, zero--no progress.  I have not picked up the needle and thread on my bap (His Eye is on the Sparrow).  I had several other things I worked on.  first our Kansas Stitcher group had a challenge to stitch something for Kansas Day --which was Jan. 29th.  I stitched a sunflower biscornu. Then I stitched for me! Started on my birthday (2nd)--something that has been in my to do pile for 5 or 6 years.  Fell in love with these little birdies and darn it --they have been calling for a long time.  So I heeded the siren song and got with it.  Valerie Pfeiffer Trios. I plan on taking it to the framers this week.  I also started a Black Bird Design--Christmas Garden.  I belong to a group on Facebook that loans out of print BBD patterns.I put my name on the list for this one and low and behold it was my turn!  Because it is a lone I am devoting all my stitching time to it.  I want to be able to pass in on quickly.  I pulled threads from my stash of Victorian Motto Sampler.  Working on 40 ct Picture This Plus "Doubloon".

We had a nice tease for spring--upper 70's on Saturday (20th). Was wonderful to spend time outside without winter clothes and gale force winds.  Just soo pleasant.  Back to 40's but that is OK cause spring isn't that far away! Daffodils are poking thru!

That is what I have been up to--lots of stitching!  Keep stitching!  Dede

Love with a Capital L January Progress

Hello!  Here is my January start on Love with a Capital L.  While I love how the colors work together in the border and decorative elements, I felt the pumpkin was too pale in the text (see Patient and Kind).  So I skipped around the chart, until I could find a better color.  And I skipped the big capital L (top left) because I want a highly variegated thread for that.  I am considering Caron Waterlilies "Hot Peppers".  Is anyone familiar with that colorway?

I'm happy with my new start; I worked on the first 3 pages though none are complete.  Eventually I did find a better color for the text: Gloriana Silk in Copper.  This will be a focus piece for February since it is all about Love.  

I'm Back!

Hi everyone I'm back with another Paradise update!  I didn't post last month because we were told not to.  I was going to anyway but I forgot lol.  Anyway I've made a lot of progress after not much progress over the holidays.  

Last time:

Now:

The colors are pretty true the first one was in daylight the second at night.  But in the two months I did about 4 1/2 pages.  The second pic is an official page finish with a bit of the next one.  See you all next month!

Renee's Fractal White Tiger January 2016 Update

This month I managed to add over 1500 stitches to my Charting Creations cross-stitch "Fractal White Tiger" featuring artwork by Ricky Barnard.

Page 1 is almost 30% complete. I cannot wait to see how it looks for my February update!

Happy Stitching,
Renee

Unspoken

More little bitty progress!  I think I have stitched a soft-focus branch, though.

Tama

January 2016 - Christmas Contest Suteki

I started the year with only one day's worth of work on Suteki:

I settled into a weekend rotation of her and I managed progress every weekend but the last of the month. She's been a pain, but she's moving along well, especially when I realized that the first row is probably going to be the absolute worst confetti-wise and it should get better (eventually). I finished the first page and most of the second, but they aren't full pages, so they don't really count:


She may not get quite as much attention in February since I have a lay-about project to finish up and a month before I go to Disney World, but I intend on at least finishing the second page.

January 2016 Update on His Eye is on the Sparrow

Happy stitching in the New Year--wow--January is almost over already!
Posting an up date on my piece.  I managed to finish almost 2 pages since the end of November.  Happy about that.

I am working on a small biscornu to celebrate Kansas 155th birthday as of Jan.29.  I am working on edging and will stitch year on back.  Love these biscornus.

I am also doing a SAL with Randje per Week.  I stitched it in 2014--it was almost 6 feet long-all border patterns.  Sat out the borders for 2015.  This year it is a sampler of alphabets.  Free pattern that are posted weekly.  It is an international SAL.  Originating in the Netherlands.  I am inspired by all the wonderful stitchers and how they have added their person touches.  If you are interested just google it.  They published a book for each of the past SAL.

Looking forward to February!  Short month and then soon SPRING!  We are on the edge of a big snow storm the first of the week and am hoping we don't get drifts of snow.  One good thing about snow this time of year--it doesn't last as long as in January!  More sunshine takes care of that!
Keep stitching! Dede

Sarah's January update

After a rough patch, I finally settled in and got some stitching done!

I filled in the section on the left and quite a bit on the bottom right.

December 29, 2015

January 29, 2016

Keiley's Introduction - Christmas Contest Suteki

Hiya everyone!   My good friend Heather is a member and thought this would be a great group for me.

As far as the personal stuff goes...I'm a mid 40's divorcee with a 5-year old Rescue Shih-Tzu named Bam and we live in Northeast Arkansas. I'm also an Asperger-diagnosed adult with OCD and Social Anxiety Disorder, which makes for a complicated life, but it's great for an overactive stitching mojo.  I pretty much spend every non-working/waking hour stitching (unless it's close to Disney World time, and then I'm completely absorbed in Disney planning).

I started the 2014 HAED Christmas Contest Suteki project on January 1, 2016 as a gift for my sister, along with two other new HAED starts. I'm stitching it on my preferred fabric, 28ct Monaco, 1x1 full stitches. I've only put one day's worth of work on it so far, but here is where I made it to:


I've got several other WIPs in progress, mostly HAED's, all of which are a lot easier than this one, even though most of them are twice/three-times as large. This one may be small, but the amount of dithering and confetti are a lot more than I am comfortable with, hence the needed motivation of a SAL group, especially since I want to finish it by the end of the year (if not sooner).

I'm looking forward to getting to see everyone's progress throughout 2016 and thanks for including me!

Stephanie's Introduction: Love with a Capital L

Hi, my name is Stephanie and thank you for letting me join!  A SAL is so helpful for making progress with huge projects.

I'm a married thirtysomething, living in the Washington, DC metro area, with one son, almost 2 years old.  He keeps me busy, and I mainly stitch in the evening after baby bedtime.  Other hobbies include sewing, quilting, knitting, and reading, but cross stitch is my primary creative outlet these days.


In mid January I will start Love with a Capital L by Papillion Creations.  Here is my floss toss: Gloriana silk in crimson & pumpkin, on 25 count vintage smoky white lugana.  This pattern has been in my stash for a long time.  The plan is to add some personalization to the bottom as a wedding sampler.  It's a large project (260 x 434 st), which I found a bit daunting.  I will stitch 1 over 1, full cross.  But we've been married 10 years, so it's about time.   I look forward to sharing my progress here and seeing everyone's projects come along.