A Restart on Jane and an Update on Wallace/Robertson

My work life and personal life have been keeping me very busy over the past several weeks. So much so that I have been neglecting my blogging friends and hobby. I hopefully will get with the program to keep this blog more updated (even if it is just a post to say “HI”). I am going to be heading back to Tasmania at the end of the week so thought it would be best to go ahead and get an update posted for all of my blogging friends on what I have been up to in the stitching realm of my life.

First up – Jane (my new best friend)

In my previous post I showed progress on Jane Atkinson by Scarlet Letter. I was working away on the top portion of the flower border and started to get close to the left hand side of the linen. Fears of not having the linen big enough started going through my mind. I tend to measure to make sure that I will have at least 2 inches of extra linen around my project for framing purposes. I also tend to measure my linen and chart at least twice before I start just to make sure that I have the correct linen size (learned my lesson on that one when I did Dutch Beauty – had to restart that one also). Like they say “measure twice – cut once”. Anyway my worst fears were realized – not enough fabric on the right side to complete the design.

I really liked working on this piece so instead of completely throwing in the towel on the design I started over on another piece of fabric – 40ct Doeskin by Lakeside Linen. This time I just started it on a stitchers half that I had without cutting it down to size so that I knew I would have enough. Here is my progress so far.

I tend to jump around a little bit because I get tired of working on the same thing. With this piece I usually do the outline of the flowers and then go back and do the fill in – which is always easier since it mostly all the same color.

Since Jane is all cross stitch I have been rotating back to the Wallace and Robertson Sampler by Needle’s Prayse.  Here is my progress so far.  I am working both patterns on one piece of linen.  This is a fun sampler to work on – even though it does have a lot of queen stitches.  I have finally gotten the hang of these down so I do not get so frustrated with them. I am saving most of the gold work for last.

 

In June, Vilma at Examplars from the Heart had a give-away to celebrate her one year blog anniversary and I was the lucky winner.  I received her Quaker Virtues – Wisdom and Quaker Virtues – Honesty charts along with two freeby charts and a special note. I look forward to stitching these and sharing them with the group.  Vilma is a very talented designer and I have completed a couple of her designs – And They Sinned (my favorite) and Serenity. Here is a picture of my completed Serenity. I really liked this border even though it got a little tedious at times.

Apologies for the quality of the images. Still trying to get the hang of taking descent pictures of the needle work projects.