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. 

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After!

Purple blue green butterfly before:

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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!

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

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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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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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Take time. I stitched a bit of the sand. 

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

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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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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. 

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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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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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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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Happy Stitching!!

Turtle trot 2015 list

Ok, so going through all my stitchy stuff I found that I actually have 12 WIP/UFOS. How cool is that! I figured it would've been A LOT more!

I'm still only going to pick out 10 for the turtle trot. 

Here they are in no particular order:

Mirabila Red

Mirabilia Winter Queen conversion

Rocky Point

Wedding Dress (I think that's what it's called, I bought it off Etsy). She became a UFO because I ran out of thread and by the time I went to buy more, I forgot what color I used. So I first have to figure out the color before I finish the last little bit lol

A View from the Window.  This turned into a UFO because I screwed up somewhere on the flowers. Rather than try and find it, I lost my patience and moved on.  

Butterfly Girl. She became a UFO because I used to wrong color in her hair and instead of frogging it I moved on to something else. I was getting tired of all the grays anyway. 

Dockside Quilts

A Whole Lotta Latte. My eyes couldn't take the black aida.  I had to stop for a bit, then I just forgot about it lol. 

A picture of my cat I converted online

Take Time

Wish me luck!

Im looking forward to watch everyone's progress, see you on the tenth!

Happy stitching!

What have I gotten myself into?!

So for the past year, I have been browsing the internet for anything to do with cross stitch and I have come across many groups.  Some are for SALS, some are for smalls, SFS, turtle trot...and that's just to name a few!

I have decided I would like to take part in at least two three of them.

Here they are in no order:

-Stitch From Stash -2015A
    -this will be done in two parts at 6 months each.  You have a budget of $25.00 each month (or currency equivalent) to buy stash from.  Whatever is not used in that month can be carried over into the next month.  Check out Epic Stitching to read all the rules and how exciting this is going to be!

The next one sort of goes hand in hand with the stitch from stash.

-Turtle Trot 2015.  The idea is to pick out ten projects and post your stitching status on them on the tenth of every month.  So I will be forced to work my WIPs and possibly UFO's. Which in turn, keeps my stash down (at least that's the idea) You can check out all the info and sign up Here at BAP attacks' blog.

-And finally Cross Stitch Collection SAL.  It features an Edwardian Garden Party, and if you sign up, they send you the pattern for free! You can also do 12 smalls, one for every month for 2015 or you can even do your own thing! It's their very first SAL It will be released in three parts, the first being released on Jan 01/15.  Click Here for more info!

So there you have it! Again, I ask....what have I gotten into??!!

Happy Stitching!