March turtle trot

March! Eeek March already!

Anyway....on to my projects, I managed to work on 5 of them this month.

Dockside quilts before: (excuse the wrinkles)

After: all done!!

It's just about dry in this pic.  Still need to iron.

A whole lotta latte. FINISHED!  I decided not to stitch the words across the bottom. I rather like it without them. 

Still needs to be ironed. I was so excited to get it finished! It's been a UFO/WIP for a year. 

Before:

After!

Purple blue green butterfly before:

After: 

Winter queen before: (the fabric is not dirty, it's silver lining from polstitches)

After: I filled in some white and the darker pink on the bottom of her dress. 

Red before the beading and back stitching 

After. DONE!

Happy stitching!

February Turtle Trot

Another month gone by...here are my ten.

Take time 

Before:

Middle.... 

FINISH!!!! Didn't think I was going to do it but I did! Yay me!!  Second finish for 2015!

A whole lotta latte

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After:

Butterfly girl before:

After. 

A view from a window before 

After:

I'm giving up on this one. I did about 6 stitches and got stuck.  I remember now why this became a UFO. See all the blue and green.... It all has to be frogged. .... Ugh. I don't have the patience to frog it.  I think I'm going to give up on this one and substitute something else in place of it.  I have one wip left (I only had 11 to begin with) and I'm unsure if a will add it in to my turtle trot or start something new. 

Next up, Mirabilia winter queen before:

After:

Rocky point. Never touched it. Lost my mojo every time I looked at it. Hopefully I can get some done next month.  

Same with my picture of my cat. Never touched it. 

Dockside quilts. 

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After:

Butterfly. 

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And last, Red. 

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After: she's almost done except for beading!

Ok, so after this round of turtle trot I've realized that I'm extremely overwhelmed with all these projects.  I think it's because 1) my projects are HUGE... at least to me they are, and 2) I HATE having to change projects when I'm "in the groove."   For example..... when I was working on Red, I didn't want to put her down.  I could see the finish line!  Same thing while I was working on Whole Lotta Latte.  It's almost done!! And then I have to put it down and move on to something else...wah wah wahhh.

Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that all of my WIPs are being worked on.  The concept of Turtle trot is awesome!  I just don't know what to do.  I don't want to give up on them.  But, I can't cut them down to 5 projects, because then I would feel like I'm making my own rules and I don't want to do that either.

Any suggestions from experienced stitcher's?  I would truly appreciate your feedback!

Happy Stitching!

I have a finish!

Third one so far in 2015!!

Oooh - too tight? 

Sue Hillis

14ct DMC blue marble aida

I really wish I could get a better picture of the fabric. It's a real pretty blue and white marble. Oh well. 

Happy stitching!

January SFS2015-A

My first month of posting! I'm sooo excited!  Ok, here goes....

MONTH: January

SPENT: $12.00-  I ordered the Hope, Dream, Imagine, and Believe chartpack from the talented Ms. Joan Elliott.  I want to do it as a set to go with the purple green blue butterfly.  My plan is to replace Joan's colors to match the ones in the butterfly pattern.  

EARNED: Nothing.  The 2 projects that I completed were started in 2014, so I don't think they count anyway.  (I'm not sure because I don't really understand the "earned" part yet...if someone could explain I would greatly appreciate it!)

But!!!! I have had 2, that's right.... Two finishes since January 1st!! I finished them through the turtle trot challenge.  I guess I can include them in the SFS ... Someone will have to let me know if I can't. 

First up is a wedding dress pattern I bought from Etsy.  This one was started last year and I only had a little bit to finish on the bottom of her dress.  

Next is just a little pattern called Take Time....but it's a finish! I started this one last year sometime... and if you follow my turtle trot post, you will see how much I've done.  There was only a little bit of the blue water done when I picked it up again.







STITCH FROM STASH: Nothing. I'm still working on 10 pieces from the turtle trot.  I'm hoping to have another finish for February month, then I'll replace the finish with a stash pattern.  We shall see.

Anyway, so far for January I've worked on:
1. Dockside quilt
2. Take time finished 
3. Mirabilia Red
4. Mirabilia Winter Queen
5.Whole Lotta Latte
6. Butterfly girl
7. Converted pic to pattern of my cat
8. Rocky Point
9. View from a window
10 .Wedding Dress finished
10.Purple Blue Green Butterfly (replaced the wedding dress lady)

You can see all these patterns in my January Turtle Trot post.



BUDGET CARRIED INTO FEB: $18.00 for a total of $43.00  (because Canada's currency stinks and $30 equals $25 US)

I'm so excited!!!


Happy Stitching!

January Turtle Trot 2015

January's ten projects for turtle trot 2015:

A whole lotta latte. I did some of the pink border and finished most of the middle cup. 

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After:

Mirabilia Winter queen, pink conversion.  I worked on the bottom left side of her dress. 

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After:

A picture of my cat Harley. I used pic2pat online to convert the picture to a pattern. Still not sure of the colors yet. I am really hoping it's going to turn out like the picture.  I worked a little on the top border. 

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After:

A view from the window. Most of the work on this was done trying to find where I went wrong and fixing a mistake I made in the flowers.  I did manage to get a little stitched on the leaves on the left side, and a little in the middle.

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After:

Take time. I stitched a bit of the sand. 

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After:

Dock side quilts. I finished the last quilt and did the little window under it. 

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After:

Wedding dress.  Which is a FINISH! Yayyy!!! I actually spent half an hour trying to match up the pink thread in order to finish it.  It was finished on January 1st. My first finish for 2015! In all honesty there was only about 2 hours worth of stitching left on her anyway .... Oh only I had known that! lol

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After:

I added a few beads to her hair for a bit of bling. I don't like the black silhouette anymore. If I had my time back I would've picked a different color.  And I think with the bead placement on her chest....to me she looks like she has a deformed breast.  I might have to fix that!

So because that one is completed... I'm not sure if I'm supposed to continue working on the nine I have left or add another project in to keep it at ten. I don't know how the rules work.  If someone could let me know that would be much appreciated. 

In any case, if you can remember in my first TT post I said I only had 12 WIPS so I picked another one to add. 

This one I stopped because I wasn't sure if I liked the color fabric with the floss color. But looking at it with fresh eyes made me just love it!  It's called purple blue green butterfly and I bought it online from Artecy. 

Here's the before:

After:

Butterfly girl. I did a little on the side of her face/hair.  Haven't found the mistake yet but I know it's there somewhere!

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After:

Mirabilias Red.  I didn't get as much done as I wanted. I filled in some of the brown on the bottom of her dress and a few black and white stitches here and there that needed filled in. 

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After:

Rocky Point. I only got about 60-65 stitches put in this. I just wasn't feelin' it.... Anyway, I'm hoping to get into it more next month. 

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After:

Happy Stitching!!