Column Finish!

Hi everyone sorry for the long wait between posts but I really wanted to finish the column before I posted.  I'm happy with my progress so far but since I'm taking part in the Halloween blog hop hosted at Serendipitous Stitching I need to start on Halloween Red so that's going to take precedence.  I also got in a few stitches on Peacock and have to say I love the Kreinik.  It's fun and beautiful to stitch with.

Here's my progress on Magical World:

And the piece so far:

And here's my progress on Peacock:

And the piece as a whole:

I've also got my decorations up for Halloween including a new lamp that I bought and repainted to match my decor.  It's really cool because I can pull the top off and fill it with whatever I want.

Pay no attention to the messy table :).  Well that's all for this update.  My stitching may be halted coming up because I really want to finish building my lounge chair so that I can stitch in it.  But I want to do Halloween Red first.

I also want to wish my husband a very happy 32nd birthday.  I love you!

Until next time,
Happy stitching!

Just a Note...

Hi everyone I just had a little note to post.  I've had someone inform me that I had my settings on so only Google+ users could comment on my blog.  I changed it so now everyone can but the switch deleted all of the comments I had.  I apologize for that and know that I read and appreciate all of the comments I receive.  Have a great stitching week I'll be back with updates in a few days!

Column 1 Half Done and Peacock Progress

I got a lot done this week. I'm a little over halfway done with the first column of Magical World which means I'll be starting the book soon. I got to the bottom of page 9 and page 17 is next.
This is before:
 
And this is after:

The dark part is the end of the knife.  I'm pretty proud of myself I got quite a bit done.  It's still a lot of confetti.  I also got some stitches into Peacock which is more green than I remembered but it'll be pretty.

And it was almost 50/50 but Halloween Red was the winner so that will get stitched up soon.  It's not really calling me at the moment though so I'll probably get more Peacock in now.  Thanks everyone for voting!  See you next week!  Happy stitching!

Page 1 Column 1 Finish

I've finished the end of the first column of the first page.  It doesn't seem like a lot but there's a lot of confetti in every set of 100.  I'm getting the urge to pick up Peacock again so we'll see how that goes. 

This is the first page progress so far.  I'm moving next to page 9 which is the next set of this column.  My family has left town so other than unpacking my house I should be making some good progress.  This 400 stitches I did in two nights.  I have to go job hunting too though as I just can't pay the bills with my current job so that'll take up some time.    If only I could make money cross stitching ;).  I also need to figure out which Halloween color to start next so I'll have a poll up to help me decide.  Which color should I start next?

Which Halloween Color Next?

Green

Red

Yellow

 

pollcode.com free polls

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A Winner and a Start

I'm happy to post that Linda Scott has won the giveaway.  I've already dyed it and it's washing right now.  I think it turned out really well.  I just need your address and I'll send it off.  Congrats and thanks for participating!

I've also started Magical World.  I don't have a ton of progress to show because I had to frog the entire beginning section which has a lot of confetti.  15 colors alone in the first 100 stitches.  I also lost one of the colors before I had even started and realized I didn't buy two of the colors I needed.  Oops.  So there's some blank spots.  I purchased them today though so I'll have the spots filled in soon.

I'm about halfway done with the first page column.  There's 32 pages total with 4 of the pages having only one column on each.  I'm liking this one so far and I'm hoping to get some more progress soon although this week I have family coming in so I know I won't be getting much done.

London was a blast!  I took around 1000 photos.  I'll only post a few of my favorites here.

Until next time,

TTFN!

A finish and vacation!

I'm happy to say Halloween Blue is done!  The black wasn't as bad as I thought it would be and my goal to have it done before my trip has been met.  I finished it last night and I'm currently sitting in the airport waiting for my European vacation! Enough talk on with the pics!

I brought all of my stuff to start on Magical World and a long flight but a lot of it will probably be sleeping.  

After my last post I reached ten followers!  That means it's giveaway time!  The rules are: you must comment on this post saying you want to enter and you must be a follower.  The prize will be a piece of hand dyed fabric.  In your comment please tell me what count/kind of fabric you stitch on and which colors you want dyed (max of 3).  Keep in mind what colors mix well.  Good luck!

Until next time,

The hills are alive with the sound of stitching!

And a European Vacation quote:

Clark Griswold: There's Buckingham Palace, kids. That's where the Queen lives and works.

Audrey Griswold: Works? What does she do, Dad?

Clark Griswold: She queens... and vacuums.

Hand Dyed Fabric

Sorry about the wait we've been moving this past week.  I've got some things to show.  First I've discovered a new love.  I was looking a some hand dyed fabrics and the price plus shipping for a lot of them was pretty high.  Now I'm a pretty thrifty person so I looked up cost efficiency of making my own.  I decided I really wanted to try my hand at it so with some good coupons I gave it a go.

Last pic is with flash.  I think it turned out pretty well.  This is 32 count oyster linen with royal blue and sunshine yellow Tulip permanent dye.  I know everyone says to use Procyon dyes but I'm planning on using this to stitch on over my trip and couldn't wait for it to come.  I'm really happy with it and think I'm going to be dyeing all my fabric.  It's not nearly as difficult as I thought it would be.

Secondly I reached the bottom of Halloween Blue and finished two columns.

I'm close to a finish.  The next column will show us the beginnings of the ghosts.  

Hopefully my next update will be a finish and a start.  I leave for Europe in 5 days and I'm so excited but also kind of nervous.  And I still have a ton of unpacking.  It took two full days until about midnight each day to move but hopefully unpacking will be easier.

Thanks for sticking with me and I love comments!

Until next time,

Stay classy stitchers!