Summer Iris finished!

Woohoo! Go me! FINALLY got a finish under my belt and boy, does it feel good! I managed to finish the Summer Iris and started on the Blackbird Designs Moon Garden. I managed to find a really nice copy in almost perfect condition, for a VERY reasonable price. The stitching is going so QUICKLY and I am looking forward to stitching it at least once more once it's completed! :)


At any rate, on with the pictures! :D




Design: Summer Iris


Designer: Blackbird Designs


Fabric: 28 Ct. Legacy Cashel Linen by Picture This Plus


Fibers: Crescent Colours Cappuccino, Weeks Dye Works in Dove, Fawn and Rum Raisin, and Gentle Art Sampler Threads in Grecian Gold.

Now, for the WIPS:


WIP #1:

Design: Pink Flower


Designer: The Workbasket


Fabric: 28 Ct. Legacy Cashel Linen by Picture This Plus


Fibers: Fibers: Crescent Colours Belle Soie silks in Collard Greens, Fern Frond, Rosebud and Rose of Sharon

WIP #2:


Design: Moon Garden



Designer: Blackbird Designs


Fabric: Picture This Plus 28 count Lugana in Lupine


Fibers: The Gentle Art Sampler Threads in Avocado, Buttermilk, Cameo Pink, Highland Heather and Willow

I had an awesome stitching day today and I am hoping for another one real soon :). It was such a joy to just sit and chat with the ladies at Stitcher's Paradise. I always have such a good time going to the weekly stitch in. It's treasured time and I always look forward to the next week. :)


Well, I best be off. I have some chores to do before The Hubmeister and myself go to dinner and then shopping. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week! :)


Respectfully submitted,

C.

Inside the stitcher's studio

Whilst on an internet walkabout, I came across a post on the Craft Corps website titled, Inside the Crafter's Studio . I, also, am a huge fan of James Lipton's Inside the Actor's Studio , with the Robin Williams episode being the stuff of legends and my favorite ever episode, other than the one that Sally Field did where she dropped the MF bomb :D.


If you are unfamiliar with the show, Inside the Actors Studio is a series on the Bravo cable television channel, hosted by James Lipton. The show deliberately uses a slower pace in the interviews as compared with a typical celebrity interview, thus cameras usually record a couple of hours' of conversation, later edited to an hour, a trick used by Groucho Marx on his 1950s quiz show You Bet Your Life. (The Robin Williams episode actually ran for over FIVE hours and one lady laughed so hard and for so long, she was rushed to a nearby hospital with a hernia! O.O).


While most of the show is a one-on-one interview conducted by Lipton, this is followed by the host submitting a questionnaire to the guest. The questionnaire concept was originated by French television personality Bernard Pivot, after the Proust Questionnaire . The ten questions Lipton asks are:


What is your favorite word?
What is your least favorite word?
What turns you on?
What turns you off?
What sound or noise do you love?
What sound or noise do you hate?
What is your favorite curse word?
What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
What profession would you not like to do?
If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?



Since I really do not have much of an update (but I'm posting pictures anyway! :P), I thought I would do a stitcher's version of the same questionnaire (with my own answers, of course! :P):


1. What is your favorite stitching word? Finish. :)

2. What is your least favorite word? UFO.

3. What stitching related thing turns you on? Silks

4. What stitching related thing turns you off? The Frog. (Rip it, rip it!)

5. What stitching sound or noise do you love? The sound the floss makes when it's going through the fabric.

6. What stitching sound or noise do you hate? The sound of things crashing down when I have become so disorganized, because I let things slide.

7. What is your favorite curse word? The f bomb, natch. :)

8. What stitching related profession other than your own would you like to attempt? Designer.

9. What stitching related profession would you not like to do? Distribution of charts.

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? Your stitching room is over here. Your family is waiting on you! :)



Here is my update of Summer Iris. Somehow or another, I've managed to become a stitch off somewhere and I cannot find it. So, instead of fighting with it or frogging it altogether, I'm just rolling with it and tweaking it here and there. It won't look *exactly like* the picture, but since when have I ever cared about that? :P

At any rate, on with the show! :)


Design: Summer Iris


Designer: Blackbird Designs


Fabric: 28 Ct. Legacy Cashel Linen by Picture This Plus


Fibers: Crescent Colours Cappuccino, Weeks Dye Works in Dove, Fawn and Rum Raisin, and Gentle Art Sampler Threads in Grecian Gold.

Here is my new ORT holder. I purchased it last night at Hobby Lobby . It was originally $1.99, but it was 40% off all of their Easter stuff. I try to have my ORT holders in seasonal designs. I will post the others that I have as the seasons change.

Well, I need to bolt for the door. I want to get some stitching in before Teh Hubmeister takes me to Memphis Championship BBQ for my birthday lunch. Hope everyone is having a great week! :)


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Respectfully submitted,

C.

WIPapalooza

I have finished exactly nothing. At this juncture, I am seriously considering ditching my New Year's resolution to finish the 25 projects I had set aside and just start over come January. Work has been crazy and for whatever reason, my migraines have returned. I do not know what's causing it. However, I *do* know my boss was upset that the second time that I got one, I called out. I replied that I had called out because the *last* time I had a migraine and I was at work, instead of sending me home, I got booked 6 hours of massage. Really?!


At any rate, what all of this means is that my stitching time has seriously been curtailed. I work too much and come home too tired to do anything more than cook a simple meal for me and The Hubmeister, then off to bed to read for a bit, eventually passing out with a book on my face. I managed to put a bit in the Love Happens photobooth and start two more. I seems to be unable to shake the Blackbird Designs addiction, and after the last Nashville Needlework Show , I'm even more in the dumper. I purchased more than I should have and while I should probably feel guilty about it, I really don't! Their new book, A Stitcher's Journey is particularly beautiful and I cannot WAIT to get started on something from the book.





At any rate, here is what I have so far on the Love Happens photobooth:


Design: Love Happens photobooth



Designer: Bent Creek



Fabric: 32 count raw linen as provided in the kit


Fibers: DMC Six Strand Embroidery Floss Art. 117

Here is the Blackbird Designs that I am working on:


Design: Summer Iris


Designer: Blackbird Designs


Fabric: 28 Ct. Legacy Cashel Linen by Picture This Plus


Fibers: Crescent Colours Cappuccino, Weeks Dye Works in Dove, Fawn and Rum Raisin, and Gentle Art Sampler Threads in Grecian Gold.

Here is the other project that I am sloooooooooooowly working on:


Design: Pink Flower


Designer: The Workbasket


Fabric: 28 Ct. Legacy Cashel Linen by Picture This Plus


Fibers: Fibers: Crescent Colours Belle Soie silks in Collard Greens, Fern Frond, Rosebud and Rose of Sharon

Well, I am off to make dinner. Having marinated chicken, twice cooked potatoes with garlic and onions with carrots on the side. Can't wait! :)


Hope everyone is having a wonderful week! :)


Respectfully submitted,


C.