Progress on Jane (and other’s)

Hello fellow bloggers, friends and stitchers.  I have to admit that Jane has gotten the best of of me - I am nearly there but it is taken longer than I want to admit.  Here is a picture of the progress and a couple of close ups.

  Not much further to go. Just a little bit more of the border, and then I can concentrate on the lettering, Adam and Eve.

In order to give myself a break and to give myself a small feeling of accomplishment, I decided to work on a couple of small things.

This is a small Irish Samplings pincushion by The Nostalgic Needle. This will be finished as an an ornament for an exchange in December. I worked this on 36-ct mystery fabric using some left over silks and Gentle Arts Sampler Threads.

Here are a couple of other ornaments that I have stitched up also for exchanges. (Just need to "finish" them). Both of them are from past issues of the Just Cross Stitch Christmas Ornament magazine.

I also stitched With My Needle's Quaker Hornbook. It is stitched on 36-ct Maple Sugar using Silk n Colors Chocolate Caramel (anyone hungry yet?). I took the picture with the linen folded and sitting on the hornbook.  I now need just need to finish it and mount it on the hornbook.

I have made good progress on my Celtic Wallace and Robertson.  The Wallace part is nearly complete with the exception of the gold work.  Decided to leave that until both parts are finished and I can mount it on stretcher bars to work all the outlining and braid stitches.

As mentioned in my last post I started Toccatta 4 but quickly got a little bit bored with it so it has gone back into the WIP basket for now. Will show a picture of it next time I take it out of the basket.

When going through my WIP's I came across the Waterfield Band Sampler which I started about a year ago.  I started this after all 4 parts had been published in the Sampler and Antique Quarterly magazine.  I really liked the medallions on the bottom of the sampler so decided to start there and work my way up to the top and all the whitework.  Here is a picture of my progress.

As you can tell I like to jump around when stitching. Again I just get bored with doing the same stitch or color over and over again. There is a lot of running stitch in the middle section so hopefully I can get that completed enough to work my way on up into the second of four sections.  Really like this but it is going to be long.  Only about half of it is showing. I am doing mine on 36-ct fabric Pearled Barley (cannot tell by the picture – looks gold) using NPI silks instead of the AVAS called for in the pattern.  I have also changed some of the colors so that they stand out a bit more. Figured with all the work that is going into this that I want to be able to see the stitches instead of having them hidden.

You would think by looking at these pictures that I do everything on gold linen – but it is just the lighting and my camera. Hopefully the pictures will come out a little bit better when they are finished.