A call from the WIP bin

Last week I was stitching happily along on Rainbow Ruminations when for some unknown reason I thought of Nora Corbett's Moss Collector, which disappeared into the WIP bin almost two years ago. The urge to pull her out was irresistible, so that's what I did; here is where she had been left off:

And here she is after four days of stitching:

The chart photo on this one is particularly bad; the greens look horrid in the picture, but are actually very rich and vibrant. I'm hoping to be able to finish her later this week.

As for Rainbow Ruminations, here is where I left off for now:

I used some holographic Kreinik braid for the word iridescent:

A model I stitched for Rosewood Manor a couple of years ago has just now been released, and it uses some really pretty Weeks Dye Works threads:

I also received the next model from Karen, so I will probably start that after I finish Moss Collector; that's the plan for now, anyway.

Hope everyone has a great stitchy week!

Rainbow Ruminations

Last week I sent the Rosewood Manor model back, so I have been enjoying having no models currently in the house. I intended to get back to Spook Town Square, to try to get part 2 done before part 3 comes out in a few weeks, but Tempting Tangles' Rainbow Rumination called out to me and I couldn't resist!

I chose Silk'n Colors Kaleidoscope for the variegated thread, and it is so fun to watch it come off the skein and onto the fabric:

It's funny to me now that when I was a kid my box of eight crayons was always (unwittingly) arranged in a rainbow because that's how they seemed to go together best: purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and red, then brown and black because there wasn't really a good place for them!

Mirabilia Designs is celebrating it's 25th anniversary, and part of that is a small leaflet with a blurb about Nora Corbett, some pictures she likes and a chart called Portrait of Antique Vines, which I stitched:

It's a sweet little design, and would look good in a lot of different colors.

Hope everyone has a great stitchy week!

Back from the framer, for good this time!

Last Friday my too-green L*K Spooked and Very Scary came back home in the frames they were originally intended to have, and I am very happy with the results. I was a bit concerned that I would end up regretting my decision to have them fixed, but I definitely like them better now--phew!

Here is Spooked before:

And after:

Very Scary before:

And after:

Lizzie*Kate designs make up a large part of my Halloween wall in my craft room, and I am really going to miss seeing new designs from Linda:

The empty hook in the picture had a non-L*K piece on it, which I removed for the picture. Now if I take L*K's ABC Halloween in to be framed, I can hang it there!

Continuing with the Halloween theme, I have spent more time on Glendon Place's Spook Town Square, and have finished one of the four squares that make up part 2. Here it is before back stitching:

And after:

Such a sad little ghostie! Here is all that I have stitched so far:

I am starting to think that I might be able to finish the current Rosewood Manor model in the next couple of weeks, which would give me a couple of weeks at the end of this month to try to get the rest of part 2 done, right before part 3 is released in early July--fingers crossed (well actually, fingers stitching like crazy...)!

Hope everyone has a great stitchy week!