April 2021

This was a good stitchy month for me. I made lots of progress on Magical Arrival. I am now 60.7% complete. April 1

May 1

Magical Arrival update

April 1, 2020

February Magical Arrival

In February I worked on my dragon for 65 hours 45 minutes, adding 9869 stitches and finishing row 4. This puts me exactly 50% done!

January progress

 

January 1, 2021

February 1, 2021 (up close)

February 1st

I've been working steady on my HAED, Magical Arrival.  It's so nice to actually see the progress! I also started two new projects in January.  I hope they don't slow this one down too much lol.

Fractal White Tiger January 2021 Update

This month 984 stitches were added to Fractal White Tiger by Charting Creations. I still love working on this piece, based on artwork by Ricky Barnard.

The whiskers are beginning to appear

The photo below shows how it looked at the beginning of the month.

Wishing you all a very productive stitching month.

Renee

Fractal White Tiger December 2020 Update

 

I finally made some progress on my Charting Creations Fractal White Tiger. 664 stitches were added this month.

6,458 stitches were added in 2020. The photo above shows my starting point this year.

I hope you all have a Happy New Year!

-Renee

Fractal White Tiger August 2020 Update

 It was nice to work on this Charting Creations Fractal White Tiger project again this month. 1,439 stitches were added, bringing the total to 41,662 of 147,300.

The photo below shows how it looked at the end of May, in my last update.  

I am working on pages 16 & 17. They will reveal whiskers and more of the tiger's nose. 

Wishing you all a fantastic September with lots of time for stitching!

-Renee

Dark Forces - August

 Another month, another ten hours, and another % or so of progress on Dark Forces! Here they are at the end of July:

And after I filled in some blues and a lot of white on the helmet - added a total of 1,482 stitches which brought me from 22.7 to 23.8%!

Another month should bring me pretty close to a page finish, but I suspect it will be October before the page is actually done - those last couple stitches always take forever!

Magical Arrival, July 2020

April 30

August 2

I can't believe I skipped May and June. At least I didn't skip the stitching part lol. My goal for this year is to finish the row and the fill in on the row above.  Looks like I'm on track for that.

To see other stitchy progress, visit my blog Log Cabin Crafts.

Dark Forces - July

Dark Forces came out to play again in July and I finished 1.544 stitches, bringing me to a total of 22.7% done. I finished a couple of blues, but also all the black on the page.

Start:

Finish:

Dark Forces June

This month I had Dark Forces out pretty early for their ten hours of glory :) I was working on filling in the last stitches of page 6, which was somewhat confetti-y at times and thus slow going. I did, however, manage the planned page finish, plus a tiny start on page 7, for a total of 1.192 stitches.

Can't wait to get some more stitched in in July - page 7 is pretty block-y, so should stitch up reasonably fast!

Total progress so far:  29.717 stitches/21.58%

Mini's Indian peacock May 2020 update

Hi Stitchers,

Another month has gone by , can't believe half of 2020 will soon be over. Well, I'm sure we cant wait this year to pass...
So for May, I did a personal goal of stitching every day which I shared end of last month. I'm happy to report that I was stick to my goal for almost all days except 2 when I was too tired to stitch.
I added 3711 stitches, a combination of full and half cross stitches.Here is how the WIP looks like:

This is giving me hope that I can finish this project this year. I'm going to start a new project today so that I cant get bored of this one.

Hope you are staying safe and indoors wherever you are.
Happy Stitching

Fractal White Tiger May 2020 Update

1,070 stitches were added to my Charting Creations Fractal White Tiger in May. 

This completed page 12, so 6 of 30 pages are done.

It sits sideways on my frame, so I am working a 2 page row from the top to the bottom of the chart. Pages 16 & 17 will be worked on next. They will reveal some whiskers and more of the tiger's nose.

This is how it looked in my last update.

The piece is now 23.08% complete.


Happy Stitching!
Renee

Dark Forces On The Rise

Yes, it's me - really! I know it's been a terribly long time. In fact, I think my last regular update - that actually showed progress - was in July 2015, when I had just finished the first row of the pattern.

Since then, I had only pulled it out a couple of times and made about hald a page worth of progress, so by the beginning of this year, Dark Force looked like this:

I'm doing a ten hour rotation this year, and earlier this month I decided to give Dark Force a turn as well. I stitched almost 1.500 stitches (giving up my per-column style since I switched to using Pattern Keeper) and now it looks like this:

I want to try and work on this for at least ten hours a month now. It would be lovely to have another row finish, but I'm not sure that'll work out this year so I'll be happy with just a couple pages of progress as well!

Total progress so far: 28448 stitches/20.66%

Fractal White Tiger April 2020 Update

Oops! I missed my March update on my Charting Creations Fractal White Tiger project. And I am a day late posting for April...

This is how it looked at the end of March. 
342 stitches were added. 
The project was 21.40% complete.

I apologize for the photo quality. I left it on the frame so I could finally finish Page 11.

This is how it looks now.
1,849 stitches were added in April.

I was able to spend some time on it the first weekend of the month and again near the end of the month. 

It is still on the frame. Page 11 is done, and I hope to finish page 12 this weekend.

The project is 22.46% complete.

This is how it looked in my February update.

I hope you are all healthy and able to get some extra stitching in.

Hugs,
Renee