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Finish: Alluring Sorceress

Beth — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:46:46 +0000

Words cannot hope to approach my glee at finishing this piece. I’ve been working on it for easily close to 15 years and although I sure didn’t work on it consistently every night, it’s been a labour of love. It has followed me as I graduated from high school, went to University (and moved home with me and back to University with me each year), graduated from University, went to graduate school (and even crossed the border with me a few times as I went to and from school there), moved to Alberta with me, flew back to Toronto with me a few times, and now it’s finished.

Wowee, right? It looks great and it’s definitely something I’m going to be splurging on a custom framing job. It’s also the first finish that I would consider to be a BAP finish. It’s a big piece!

Happy Dance: Live Simply

Beth — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:27:32 +0000

Say hello to my latest happy dance. Yes, it’s been a long, long time since I posted here or finished anything. I needed to focus on getting some RR pieces done and sent out, which have been, and I have a LONG overdue exchange piece that’s all done, but waiting back at home in Ontario to be finished. I’ll be trying to post more of my finished RR pieces as I find their photos on my hard drive!

Anyway, this happy dance is a Dimensions kit called “Live Simply.” It was fun to stitch and went pretty quickly; maybe 20 hours of work or so? In case you’re looking for it, it’s Dimensions #6975. Finished size for this one is 5×7.

Now that I’m done this piece, I’m back to working on Alluring Sorceress. Today I pretty much finished her cape, which means her cloak and her cape are done. Those are big pieces to the piece and I’ll be moving onto the rock she’s standing on to finish that. Once the rock is done, I have her dress (which is all white/creams, hence my putting it off until near the end), a little crystal ball thing, and then all the whole cross stitches are done. After that, there’s half cross stitch for a planet and shading, etc, backstitch, attaching the charms, and then she’ll be done! I’d like to have her finished by January 1, but who knows if that will happen.

Happy Dance: Newton’s Flowers

Beth — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:39:40 +0000

Meet Newton! Newton is my block of the Round Robin I’m participating in. He’s from “my” robin that three other wonderful ladies (Bea, Kara, and Renee) and myself are involved in. The theme is “Happy” and we’re all supposed to stitch something that makes us happy and smiling. Newton was stitched on 16 count white Aida with DMC floss (though he was supposed to use Anchor… oops). The pattern was found in a recent issue of a British magazine – I can’t remember offhand what issue or magazine it was, so I’ll have to look it up and post the title later, if anyone is actually interested in it.

Happy Dance: Life Is Short

Beth — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 01:03:48 +0000

Well, here’s a fun little finish to share! I started this for my mom’s birthday present early in the year and worked on it on and off until now. I’m actually really happy with how it turned out – I’ve found Jiffy kits (as this one is) are sort of touch and go on the quality scale and remarkably, I didn’t even need to ask for more thread for this kit. I think that is a first, actually. Anyway, the kit is from Jiffy, as I mentioned, and is called “Life is Short” for the little saying on the inside, I would guess.

The design is stitched on 14 count white Aida (though it looks more beigey here, and I like it this colour!), using whole stitches, backstitch, french knots, and a running stitch to do the border.

Hopefully the image works – I’m trying to use Gallery to insert the picture automatically and it refuses to align properly; there’s nothing I hate more than an improperly floated image to mess things up!

Edit: Well, THAT didn’t work. I suppose I’ll just have to insert things normally and by hand.

I have a reader!

Beth — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 07:04:36 +0000

Oh!Oh! Yay! Someone is reading! *waves at Karin*

Thank you for commenting; you totally made my night AND got me inspired to start taking pictures of my WIPs and stuff to post so that other people can see them, now that I know there is someone, in fact, reading. I’ll make sure to check your blog out in the morning (when I’m more awake and not curled up in bed).

Thank you again. I’m filing this under happy dances.