Miss Moth is finished

I was able to finish her up last Friday, which was exactly two weeks since I had started her:

I was worried that I was going to run short of the bugle beads, but luckily had enough with 10 to spare--phew!

After a bit of waffling around I decided to start Miss Dragonfly next, as I already had her kitted up with Miss Moth, so here she is as of this morning:

The wings on this one are going to be a bit time consuming to get nice, clean edges between the segments, but the rest of the dress should go quickly; I'm going to make myself work on the wings first to get them out of the way.

Hope everyone has a great stitchy week!

Time for the Waterlilies

I have been good for the past week and stuck with one project, Miss Moth. It's actually been pretty easy, because there are so many pretty colors in her that really don't show up in the chart photo; every time I finish a section I want to start the next one so I can see the colors come together! Here she is as of this morning:

The outer skirt is mostly stitched with Waterlilies, and I'll be starting that today; silk floss is always such a pleasure to work with, and it's fun to watch the variegation play out as you stitch.

Hope everyone has a great stitchy week!

The lure of new starts

Last week I finished Portrait of Antique Vines (except for the three treasures which I have since ordered) and I am very happy with the greens I chose; here it is in the original pinks:

And in green:

I was going to start Zelda when I finished PoAV, but after taking the tree down and getting some cleaning done I just wasn't in the right mood for her yet. Besides that, I'm going through my usual "no model in the house--I want to stitch everything!" phase, so now I have two new starts!

The first is a Janlynn kit that is kind of far removed from what I usually stitch, but I saw it several years ago and just really liked it for some reason; after searching for a while it finally popped up on eBay and I was able to get it about a year ago. Here is my small start on a piece of PTP Zephyr Cashel:

The second start is in my usual milieu, Nora Corbett's Miss Moth (erroneously titled Miss Moss on the chart) on an opal Lugana Solkweaver solo:

Once I get the treasures for PoAV and sew them on I'll have another set of Qsnaps open, so I'll probably put Zelda on them--at least that's the plan right now...

Hope everyone has a great stitchy week!

Phew, it's done!

I am extremely happy to report that Enchanted Alphabet is finished! I had more than enough floss (I probably could have gotten one or two more letters out of the remainder), and the rearranged letters fit onto the fabric with enough left over for the framer to work with:

I was thinking of sending this to Jill Rensel for framing, but I just don't know if I want to wait 3+ months to get it back, so I'm torn. Plus, I like taking pieces to my local framer and seeing all the options right in front of me. Hmm, I guess I'll iron it later this week and see which way I'm leaning at that point.

After I finished I went back to my version of Portrait of Antique Vines, which I hope to finish this week:

This past Saturday I received the latest Mirabilia, Zelda, and I plan to start her after this one is done; or I should say after this one is done and I get the Christmas tree taken down and some cleaning done...sigh.

Hope everyone has a great stitchy week!