A Little New Year Stitching

So 2006 is finally over and here is my first post of 2007. Allen and I didn't do anything too exciting for New Year's Eve. I went out shopping early in the day and bought all the goodies for a yummy dinner. I made us Veal Saltimbocca which was absolutely delicious and we had a lovely bottle of Asti. In between yummy meals and hanging out with Allen, I did a whole bunch of stitching. I got a huge amount done on M9. Now it goes away until next weekend. It was hard to put it away, but I did;) I would love to show you pics of M9, but is not posting nicely like everything else

As for the rest of my weekend, I had a really good time on Saturday at my LNS participating in a color class. I brought along Mira's Fairie Treasures. I love the designs, but I am super tired of yellows after stitching Woodland Fairy. I loved the blue-greens in the leaves around her dress so I made those the color of the dress and picked some other greens for the leaves. To show how horrible some of these designer provided pics are, FT's ribbons are actually purple, although they look mauve/pink in the photo. I am undecided as to whether I will leave it as the purple as charted, or change it to a pink. I think the pink goes better with the colors I picked for the dress. While at the LNS I also picked out a lovely piece of Picture This Plus linen called Sterling. It matches perfectly, but I will not be stitching on this for a while as I was a bad girl.



















Bad Leslie kitted up Mira's Stargazer today instead. I had the piece of 32 ct. Starquest linen from Silkweaver and pulled all the DMC I need. I also ordered the beads from SB&B's New Years sale. I won't need them anytime soon, so I doesn't matter if it takes forever...they were cheap! While I was messing with my DMCs, I also pulled all the DMC I will need for the Barnabee's Quest SAL that will be starting in February. Here is my minimal progress on Stargazer. I wanted to get some stitching in on Bordeaux Mystery tonight as well.














And other good news...my Round Robin from The Robin's Nest arrived home over the weekend. Mylene, Christine and Renee all did an amazing job on it. There is a specialty frame shop in town, so I will have to go see if they have an appropriate sized square frame for it. I am so pleased at how it turned out and loved the whole experience. I am looking forward to the Seasonal Dragon Round Robin that is being planned on the board for this coming spring. It should be a blast as we have some wonderful ladies planning on stitching it:)














Well, back to work in the morning!! Ick!!!

Long over due

Yup...I am not quite sure what happened with my posting this week. I just really haven't felt like posting. I have done quite a bit of stitching though.

1. My Autumn Exchange was finished and mailed.

2. I stitched Monday on Woodland Fairy. I got a little more done on her wings this week. After I finish White Wedding, I might designate an additional day to work on her as I am not that far from a finish on her either.














3. I finished what will be the last round of an RR for me. This is Christine's RR. The three other ladies in this group still have one more round, but as Renee is only stitching for us, there was a free slot in the rotation. It actually worked out well for me as I don't have an RR obligation for the rest of the year. I plan on using that stitching time for a few Christmas gifts. I guess I need to get stitching. Here is the winter heart I did for Christine's piece. I used an entire skein of DMC 519. These hearts are charted for full color, but Christine requested that we pick a single color that we felt represented the season. I like the blue glare you see off snow in the winter...hence I picked a nice blue.














Here is a pick of the three hearts that have been done so far. Christine did the green spring heart and Mylene did the red summer heart. That leaves Fall for Renee. I hope Christine like how it turned out.















Now I am off to work on White Wedding. I have been inspired by Anne finishing her Dratteds this week, so I am going to put a lot of effort into getting this done ASAP. It may not be this weekend, but it will be soon. I would like to get it to my mom for framing by the end of the month.

Exchanges and RRs

So, while I was at CATS, I spent some time working on Christine's Round Robin. She asked us to stitch a set of seasonal hearts. I chose to stitch the winter heart in a nice pale blue. It reminds me of how cold winter can be and the blue glare you get off of the snow some times. Here is my progress so far. I should have it done this coming weeknd.














While I was away, I also got a special package in the mail from Sylvie. She stitched us a lovely black cat wallhanging. It is all done over one and is absolutely stunning. She also made me a cute stuffed kitty and sent a ball and catnip mouse for the cats:) Thank you so much Sylvie. I love the gift:)!!!