2 Quick Progress Updates

Well, I got busy last week and never posted my progress on my fractal. So...there's my fractal which was in the rotation for the week BEFORE the one that just ended. The other picture is my progress on "It's 5:00 Somewhere". Even though 5:00 Somewhere isn't exactly a Christmas picture, I am doing it (twice!) for Christmas gifts, so I worked on it during my Christmas week in my rotation. Now it's back to Angel of Cross Stitch. I will probably keep that one on the front burner for two weeks - since we head for Vegas Friday - Monday, there won't be any stitching done this weekend coming up!!!

Thanks for checking out my blog... I'll try to be better about posting weekly!

Angel of Cross Stitch progress

Latest and greatest progress on Angel of Cross Stitch! Now it's on to a week of the freebie fractal for the month. I'm liking this rotation plan, keeps me from getting bored with any one project. I did go to my LNS and buy some new fabric for Frederick the Literate (which will be my next lunch time project after I finish my Walking to Town) and also the supplies (floss, fabric, and charms) for my TWO copies of "It's 5:00 somewhere" that I'm making for two good friends.

Walking to Town Progress

Well, here is my "work" project....my lunchtime sanity break is stitching on this. It's coming along quite nicely (if I do say so myself) although not as quickly as I would like. I look at my pictures, and I HAVE made substantial progress, it just takes a while because it's only an hour a day, five days a week (at most....).

When it's done, my next work project will probably be Frederick the Literate. It's a Dimensions kit, but I think I'll trade the fabric out. It's 14 count black aida, and I don't necessarily like aida (although this one is on aida, it was before I tried other fabrics), plus I'm not overly fond of 14 count...I like 18 count better. So, I'm off to calculate the difference in fabric saize and get some better black fabric. That may be tomorrow's project...now that I've found a LNS. (hmmmm....when you use initials that kind of start with a vowel sound...."ell".....would be "an LNS" or is it "a LNS" because it would be "a local needlework shop"......such dilemmas!).

Anyway, thanks for checking out my blog. Hopefully Sunday evening I'll post my week's progress on Angel of Cross Stitch.

March Freebie Fractal

Well, here's my progress so far on the free fractal for the month of March. I started it as kind of a rotation project to alternate with Angel of Cross Stitch. It's a TON of confetti stitches, as you can tell. I am thru the first three rows of blocks of ten on page one. I think I'm going to set it aside for a week's worth of Christmas ornament stitching. Then a week on Angel, then back to this for a week, etc. That way I won't get tired of any of them! (Famous last words!).

Floss Exchange

This is the lovely floss I got from Tammy as part of the ILCS floss exchange. It was so much fun to participate...now if the floss I ordered for Tammy would just get here so I could send it off to her!!! If I was thinking, I would have had it sent directly to her (of course, after I ordered it I discovered a LNS that I COULD have bought from!!!). I love blues and purples, so these are just perfect for me!

Walking to Town Update

Here is my latest update on "Walking to Town".

I have to say - I was VERY impressed with the customer service from Dimensions. This is a kit (I bought it when I first got re-bitten by the stitching bug, and wasn't sure I wanted to invest in fabric, and floss, etc, etc.....). I ran out of one color of floss (hard to see in the picture...but toward the middle there is a steeple, and it's half white and half purple, the purple being kind of the "shadow side" and I didn't have any purple left when I got to it). I e-mailed Dimensions (dummy me forgot to include my snail mail address, guess I thought they could e-mail me the floss!!!), they responded the following morning asking for my address. That was toward the end of last week, and this morning I had floss in my mailbox! (May have been there for a while, I hadn't been to the PO Box in about a week and a half). I was very impressed!!

One page completed!

Well, I've finished the first page of Angel of Cross Stitch (although it's page 4, since I started in the middle)....

Now I'm working on the fractal freebie for March. Because, of course, I needed another project!!! Maybe this weekend I'll bring home "Walking to Town" and update my progress on that too.