Carol's Christmas gift

Hello to you all!!! Merry Christmas!!! I just wanted to show you what my sister Carol stitched for this Christmas..isn't it lovely???...Thanks a lot Carol!!! I LOVE it!!!

A Small Happy Dance!!

After 4 months without time to stitch...This weekend I finally had some free time, so I decided to do this free kit that came with the WOCS. I think he is adorable!!

Stash

I just received some stuff I order from an ONS. A recently released kit of Newton’s Law and Mirabilia’s Enchanted Mermaid. I got EM with beads and treasures half price off .

This is when we turn 2.... we have never been able to tell who is who

This is a picture of us with our older brother. He's 2 1/2 years older than we are.

Here we're at the airport getting ready to board a plane to Boston.... my sister had just started the university and my parents gave her that trip as a gift... she was kind enough to take me along... I had started classes the year before.

(Carol is on the left, Carla on the right)

This is a more recent picture of us, at our parents' house

(Carla on the left, our mom, Carol on the right)

Latest finish...

This is what I've been up the last couple of days....4 My Boys': Live ~ Forgive ~ Love. I've had this chart in my to do list for some time now. I decided to do it, because it was very simple and fast to do. It only took me 10hrs total.
I didn't use the colors listed, since I wanted to use a piece of fabric left from another project, and those colors didn't look well with the fabric.
What's next?...haven't decided yet



By the way, this is still Carol... *grin*

Finished!!!

I'm finally done with Crystal Christmas, it took about 250 hrs to complete. Putting all the beads at the end wasn't a great idea... it was very boring... it took me 5 long afternoons to complete...I was about to give up.
But now that I'm finished I'm very happy with the result.

Here are my statistics:

• Start date: June 25
• Finish date: August 12
• Total days stitching: 38
• Working on beads: 05
• Not stitching days: 06

Now I'm not sure what I'll stitch, but it will be something small...that way I'll rest for a while.

At 185hrs

This is my progress so far. I'm almost done with the cross stitching , as you can see. I'm now stitching the last angel. I've loved this project so much that I haven't been able to put it down for more than 2 days...
I'll probably recieve my beads in the next days... I didn't wan't to leave all the beading for the end because I think it will be very boring, but I have no other choice since they haven't arrived in time.
I noticed the other day that I started this project June 25, so I've just been doing it for over a month now.



By the way, this is Carol...I don't know why the post doesn't appear with my name. My poor sister is studying so hard she doesn't have time for stitching these days. She leaves to school at 8.30 am, and doesn't come home until 3 - 5 am the next day. So whenever she has an afternoon off (which only happens once every other week) she just sleeps.

50hrs later.....

I love how this is looking so far...I still can't put it down. Because of all the hours I've been stitching these days, I now have problems in my right shoulder. I broke it when I was a baby, so on and off I have problems with it. I'll probably have to stop stitching for a few days until I feel better.

Stitching with all those Kreiniks has been awful, the #8 braid is so stiff...I hate it. But I love how the final result looks. Other than that I love working on this design...I can't wait to see it finished and framed.

Feather Fairy

This is my progress at 11 hours on Feather Fairy, I love how is coming along, too bad that I don't have time to stitch every day ... it will be a loooong WIP

WIP: Secrets

This is a lovely design of Lottie and her friend that came in a Cross Stitcher magazine...I just love these cute charaters...I hope to finish them soon and I'll probably frame them and hang them on my bedroom cause it reminds me of Carol and me

Feather Fairy

After almost 6 hours of stitching, this is my progress on Feather Fairy by Mirabilia . This is my first time working on Lugana...I'm finding it quite difficult ...hopefully I'll be able to stitch a little bit more tonight and tomorrow night and if I make some progress I'll post a picture during the week.
After seeing Mandy's progress, I 've realized that I'm a very sloooooow stitcher.

Archie

After 9 hrs of stitching (in 12 days) Archie is finished...I love this little fellow...He reminds me a lot of myself

Archie

This is my progress on Archie: Chocolate makes my clothes shrink…I only have an hour or less to stitch per day. So hopefully I’ll finish it this weekend.

New WIP: Someone to look up to

This is a new project I'm working on...I saw it and just had to do it... I's not big, so I'm hoping to finish it fast..This is how much I've done in just one day of stitching....

New pic : Petal Fairy

Here is a new update on my Petal Fairy...haven't done much progress in this project... I'll pick it up again this weekend. I hope I can finish all the botton part of the dress then, because I only have a little part left to finish it... After that, I'll begin with her wings, which acually, I'm really nervous of stitching because I've never used methallic threads, I hope they turn out ok...wish me luck....

Winnie the Pooh

This is a cover kit that came with Cross Stitcher Issue 159....I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it, I just wanted to stitch something that I could finish in a day

Drawn From Nature

Finally!!! My grandma's gift for Mother's day is finished!!
I've just started studying an MBA so I've been really busy lately and just this week picked up my stitching again after 3 weeks. If in this first month of my course I didn't have time for anything, I just I can't imagine how it will be for the next 13months; I just hope I have some time to pick up my stitching once in a while, I'll probably stitch only small designs but Carol has more time so she'll update this blog more often.

This is my other finish of this week : Red Grapes, we've completed the set so will be framing it soon and will post pictures of all three framed.

New WIP: Drawn from Nature

I put aside Red Grapes for a little while because I don’t have 3 colors I need to finish it, I had to order some DMC thread for Feather Fairy (Mirabilia) so I decided to add these 3 colors to my order instead of changing them to Anchor (in Peru they only sell this brand); as soon as my order arrives I’ll finish Red Grapes.
This is my current WIP it’s a design by Marjolein Bastin, it’s a gift for my grandma on Mother’s Day, I’m stitching it now because I want to start Feather Fairy as soon as I have all the colors for Feather Fairy, and besides in 2 weeks I’ll start classes so I won’t have a lot of time to stitch and I don’t want to have any project with a deadline.

Red Grapes

This is my progress after 5 nights of stitching, as I said before this will go with Purple Grapes and Grapes Sign.

Puple Grapes

Yesterday I finished Purple Grapes and since I wanted to continue stitching I immediately started Red Grapes . Both with Grapes Sign (that Carol is stitching) will be framed and hanged in Mom’s kitchen.

This is what I’m currently working on, Purple Grapes by Ursula Michaels from the book Table Grapes.

More stash

After stitching Worthword for my dad’s 57th birthday, I just had to buy these 2 kits that just have been released by Anchor: WW102 If you need a friend and WW103 I’d just like to say. I bought these at Stitchability and it only took 10 days to arrive here to Peru.

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Roadster Santa

After almost 5 month working on this piece I finally finished it on Sunday night, and I’m happy with the outcome ºÜº
“Thread Heaven” helped me a lot with the metallic threads

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Wordsworth

This was my dad’s 57th birthday gift.
Mom helped me choose the color mats for these one; I think it turn out really nice.

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New finish

These cute guys are finished…I love the color of this project, they are much brighter IRL; I think I’ll finish it as a pillow.
By the way this one was not for my father, I think I didn’t express myself correctly.

This week I got my WOCS, the same week that in the UK they get the next issue, well at least I got it, right?
In this issue I found the perfect project for my dad’s birthday Wordsworth (by Anchor)…I think I can get it done by Monday at least I hope I can.

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New WIP

I had to start a new project this week; Roadster Santa will be put away for a couple of weeks because I get frustrated every time I stitch with those metallic threads.
I have also realized that my dad’s birthday is next week :0S … this year I wanted to stitch something for him but I don’t have a lot of time so I’ll have to choose something simple but nice….

Hearts

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