I had so much fun making changes and playing with colors with this one! Here's a picture showing the chart photo, so you can see some of the changes:
I finished it just in time to enter it in The World of Cross Stitching's #projectoftheweek on their Facebook page, and they chose it!
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Talk about fun!!
After finishing this one, I finally pulled out Country Cottage Needleworks Frosty Forest so I could stitch the last block. Luckily, I had stayed caught up until the last block was released, so a couple of days' work led to this:
It was stitched on Silkweaver Karma on Belfast, and I made quite a few color changes to this one, too. It was kind of strange to get into a winter piece after so much Halloween stitching lately, but I'm glad it's finally finished.
I'm kind of wavering about what to work on next, but I'm leaning towards a piece I started in February 2008 called "Lightning McQueen & Friends". My son was 6 years old at the time, and we watched the movie "Cars" at least once a day back then. It looks like I put a day or two into this one, and then it disappeared into the Bucket 'o' WIPs:
The fabric is Silkweaver's Ametrine on opal Lugana, which I thought looks like a sparkly, sandy, desert background. My son is 13 now, and over six feet tall, so it seems a little silly to stitch this now, but I do really like the pattern, and it will always bring back good memories of when he was just a little guy!
Hope everyone has a great stitchy weekend!
Congrats! They look amazing!
ReplyDeleteWow! You're really churning out those WIPs!! Congrats on your latest finishes!! Laura
ReplyDeleteWow super beautiful project.
ReplyDeleteI love love love the changes you made to Halloween Town. Well done on such a gorgeous finish :) I love the ABC. My son is only 20 months so I may have to hunt the dvd down for him as I used to love this movie. Haha.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the stunning finishes Melanie. I love Lightning McQueen and Friends. Would you be willing to sell the chart when your done.
ReplyDeleteLinda
Linda, I don't know if I'll be able to part with this one; I have a 3 year old nephew, and possibly a grandson in the DISTANT future... I will definitely let you know if I do decide to sell it.
DeleteCongrats on all fronts-- your Town is particularly stunning---kudos on awesome color changes! As for your Cars adventure... I think it might be the perfect gift for when he's much older..... so he can remember fondly how his mom spent hours and hours and hours stitching---just not always on *his* piece. In my family we have many projects like that that bring us fond memories all the time.
ReplyDeleteVery cool finishes
ReplyDeletebeautiful finishes ♥♥♥
ReplyDeleteLove the changes with Michael Jackson and the Elixir shop, too cool.
ReplyDeleteFrosty Forest is sooooooooooo pretty on that fabric.
Congrats on both of your finishes.
Marilyn
Halloween Town is awesome! Huge kudos on all of that beautiful work!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on all the lovely finishes!! Kudos for getting all those "Likes" on that FB Group. Bet that gave you a nice warm fuzzy feeling when you saw that.... :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking about buying the Halloween Town pattern but love your conversion to Elixers instead of bakery. If you would be will to share that with me I would be most grateful.
ReplyDeleteIf you send me an email at rrowe @ new.rr.com (remove the spaces), I can send you a photo of the charting I did for the Elixirs sign and the bottles. I no longer have the colors that I used, but at least you'll have the designs.
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