I had hoped to have finished Blessings by this weekend, but that hasn't happened. I seem to have been stitching all week but with very little progress, and the reason is that I have been watching the Winter Olympics at the same time !!?? well, the idea was that I would just watch whenever the skating came on, but I found myself watching (and enjoying) quite a few other sports as well. Because we are not on the same time zone, some of the footage is shown here in the morning and then again after 9.30 at night, so I've had a few late nights. However, I am on the downhill run with this now and here is my progress:
As you can see I have used yellow in this bottom section - I changed from the WDW Curry to Gloriana Sunflower and I think it looks OK. There are two more sections of pink satin stitch flowers to do on the bottom left and right and there are meant to be beads in the centre of the four diamond shapes but I think I will replace the beads with stitches - probably more smyrnas. The last band is another row of that gold cross stitch.
I left a couple of sections higher up because I couldn't decide what colour or stitch to do so will need to go back and finish them off.
I am so looking forward to stitching something different but have been good and have held off ordering some of the wonderful things I have seen lately until this one is done. Sooooo, next post I should have a finish.
Cheers
Mary
PS. Don't you just love that face ? She was a gift from my friend Rosalie who bought her while on holiday in Queensland - her tag says; "Pincushion for sewers with Attitude"
5 comments:
Mary, what a wonderful piece and you are making good progress. The olympics really do capture my attention and I forget I have a needle inmy hand.
Enjoy your Sunday.
Woo hoo Mary, it's looking beautiful. You are making such good progress and I am sorry I am still dragging behind. I am surprised at how long the sampler is becoming. Just love that face but I don't think I could bring myself to stick pins in her. It looks like she has little 'moles' or perhaps 'beauty spots' might be a better term LOL!!
Chrissie
I was going to ask if that was a pincushion, but then you mentioned it was - I would hate to stick pins in it too. Your Blessings is looking wonderful, you must be really pleased with it.
Mary, I love your progress! I think the switch out on the yellows looks great. It is such a pretty sampler.
Neat pin cushion!!
I love your sampler Mary - it's on my list to stitch one day! And the pincushion is a riot, I love her!
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