Photo post

Okay, finally got my paws on the camera to take stitchy photos.

First, here's periwinkle after Wednesday:


with more wing, including quite a bit of glitter

and here's the tranquility sampler, page 1:


I finally managed to get a vaguely good photo - the camera is being spaz today and refuses to focus.
it looks so much better since the restart. Looking at the two next to each other, its just amazing.

Periwinkle Fae

I was taking a break from stitching, and counted up all the 10x10 square on periwinkle that were completely stitched - either blank ones, or complete stitching, or a mixture of both, and then cut all the ones I could get to from the edges out. I got 54!

So, I've got at least 5400 stitches done on her. Thats quite a cool thing to think about, and it's 17% of the whole thing DONE! Very cool, especially since a lot of the remaining 10x10 squares have only a few stitches in them left to do.

I haven't finished stitching on her for the night yet, but I'll post a picture when I am done. It's pretty much been wing today, though I have done a little more of the defining outline between her hair and the wing as well. Lots of blues, almost whites and purples. And glitter!

QS Periwinkle Fae

I haven't got a decent photo :( but oh well. It doesnt want to play nice.



Yay she has hair now! And the beginning of a wing. I've figured out that one strand of the DMC light effects works beautifully over one on 32ct, so she's got a little bit of sparkle in her eye but you can't really tell. There's lots of sparkle in the wing though, so it will be easier to see then.

Periwinkle Fae - week 1

Look! Periwinkle :) She's back. And now on a hand-dyed 32ct jobelan which I *love* from silkweavers, thanks to Anna.

I love her eyes - that one eye took me 3 straight hours of stitching and has about 20 colours but it's worth it.



Periwinkle Fae QS (no background) - (c) HAED and Nadia Tate
Stats:
Started: 1st March 2007
Total Stitches: 20872
Stitches Done:

• 8/3/07 - 1078
  

Mystery X Part 2 update

Here's an update - still not done, but quite a radical improvement from the last one!

All the purple and metallic blue is done, and only two more of the silver things more to do. Otherwise, lots of the dark and light blue&green combinations, and so much honeydew (pale green fill) that I think Im going to go mad, lol. But I'll keep plugging along.

Anna - the cloudy mottled blue 32ct jobelan from silkweavers that you gave me looks like it is going to be perfect from my un-backgrounded periwinkle fae, and I've got her marked out on it so now I'm just waiting on the chart from Bob.

Otherwise, just the same old same old. I got the charts for JOB and CHG yesterday from Martina, and they are wonderful - I've printed out all of CHG, but JOB is giving me major headaches as far as trying to print is is concerned. I gave up last night, might have another go tonight or tomorrow sometime.

I want to get the chart and everything ready for next wednesday - Ive been wanting to get back into periwinkle, and she's the perfect thing to have for the QS SAL - see if I can get her done nice and quick this time. She's so pretty, can't wait to see her start to grow again.

Periwinkle Fae Week 5

After consulting the HAED BB I ended up putting her down and moving on to working on my frogs instead, and I figure I'll come back to her and finish the page when it's time to move on from my frogs or when I get sick of working on my frogs, whichever comes first. She has a face and some eye now! So pretty... And that bud on the left is starting to show properly, which is kind of nice. It's good looking at the pictures in here because they make me take that step back from my work and see just how much I've got done. All the fairy's done for this page, just a half open flower (that's what the right stem is for), the rest of that bud, and a very slightly open bud to go on this page. And waaaay too much glitter, but that's okay. It wil get done. I'm actually sort of missing my dragon, so it will be good to get through the rotation to him again. Weird to think I'd miss him, given I worked on him for 11 months straight and almost went nuts!




Periwinkle Fae - (c) Nadia Tate & HAED
Stats:
Started: 29 September 2006
Total Stitches: 31,350
Stitches Done:

• 6/10/06 - 1503
• 13/10/06 - 2655
• 20/10/06 - 3688
• 27/10/06 - 4315
• 3/11/06 - 5310
  

Why do I keep picking glittery charts?

5,300 stitches of 8000 (roughly) for this page in, but the rest is confetti, which is alright with a few nice block-ey bits as well to even it out - no such luck, or worse yet GLITTER! I think I need to take out shares in DMC's metallics or kreinik, given I keep buying (and starting) charts with masses of the stuff in them. Why oh why oh why...

In happier news I bought the few threads I was missing and filled in all those holes, so it's a much more polished and rich look and the leaves look beautiful. And I worked down that side that I'd been leaving for goodness knows what reason and gave her some cheek, more hair and a bit of an eye! And that eye just gives me hope.

I'll post a picture tomorrow, showing that I've got all of the fairy done for this page (yay!) and a little more for the next page, due to my obsession with not breaking rows of colour that continue over the page.

Weirdly enough I'm starting to miss my angel, and all the solid colour dmc and lack of expanses of glitter. And I've got another glittery project to get through before I get to her...maybe I should rethink my rotation. Just kidding, but I'll be glad to get through the big blocks of glitter on the frogs too. At least they have more colour than glitter.

Speaking of glitter and frogs, I'm thinking of "frogging" (ha, ha) the glitter on them...I don't like the tension that I got with it and I'm thinking I might use kreinik after all, it's less "white" than the dmc I'm using. The picture I took after the SAL is down the page...anyone that reads this (if there is anyone!) what do you think?

Periwinkle Fae Week 4

Here she is - lots more background, and two more leaves, some more hair...the usual, though the leaves were fun. And that blurry bit on the right hand stem above them is going to be another leaf.


Periwinkle Fae - (c) Nadia Tate & HAED
Stats:
Started: 29 September 2006
Total Stitches: 31,350
Stitches Done:

• 6/10/06 - 1503
• 13/10/06 - 2655
• 20/10/06 - 3688
• 27/10/06 - 4315
  

Periwinkle Wk 3 and Frogs after SAL

Here's the beautiful periwinkle fae, so very close to half a page done. I got distracted from posting up the update on Friday by a New Start SAL on the HAED BB and forgot entirely, so I'm posting it today, and will post my usual Friday update this week as well. My Frogs have 1600 stitches done now, two rows of 10x10 blocks on a page, and lots of sparkle thread, not bad for a weekend, and I'll post a picture of that here as well. It's a shame to have to put them away for a while, but the fairy will have a page done on her soon, and then I'll pick them up again. They look rather lovely - well the background stuff that I've done does anyway! It'll be another three pages after this one before I see frog, but I can wait. The colours are very soft, and I didn't like the look of the sparkle next to the soft colours at first, but it looks amazing from a distance and passable from close up (right under my nose, where I stitch!) now so that's okay. I'm looking forward to not having the huge expanses of glitter thread to stitch soon, it's just a bit much to do massive amounts.


Periwinkle Fae - (c) Nadia Tate & HAED
Stats:
Started: 29 September 2006
Total Stitches: 31,350
Stitches Done:

• 6/10/06 - 1503
• 13/10/06 - 2655
• 20/10/06 - 3688

It's a Froggy Frog World - (c) Jody Bergsma & HAED
Stats:
Started: 20 October 2006
Total Stitches: 141,300
Stitches Done:

• 23/10/06 - 1600

Periwinkle Fae Update (2 weeks)

Here's some more fairy - way too much fairy, really! Lots and lots of background, and some more stem, with the beginning of another leaf. And the locks have started to cross over in the hair. The holes in the leaves are still there, I need to go shopping and get that last colour.


Periwinkle Fae - Nadia Tate
Stats:
Started: 29 September 2006
Total Stitches: 31,350
Stitches Done:

• 6/10/06 - 1503
• 13/10/06 - 2655
  

New Start (Periwinkle Fae)

I've started Periwinkle Fae for this holiday, even though I haven't finished the page on Hope yet. I just didn't want to take her on holiday, so I'll finish that page when I get home.

Here's a picture of her at this point (updated when I got home):



Periwinkle Fae - Nadia Tate
Stats:
Started: 29 September 2006
Total Stitches: 31,350
Stitches Done:

• 6/10/06 - 1503