Fire Flower - finished!

Yes its my second finish for the week - yee haa !!!!!  Pics in FireFlower album and Finished Pieces.

Pity I've got to go to work tomorrow and Sunday - but then I have another five days off before going back to work full time.  Doubt I'll get another finish done before I go back though :)

Oh hang on I might, P's giving me a hand to move some boxes tomorrow night so I can find the things that Tracy asked for so I might have one of her items finished shortly.

So what do I work on next?  Singularity? Faïence (The Castle)? Dutch Beauty? Midi Mystery I?  A new start ???

All suggestions welcome - I'm off to bed shortly.

Oh Marc and Tracy - I'll try to get a better pic of FireFlower on Sunday morning outside with my camera.  The scanner bed here has a tendency to wash out the black to a grey background.

Mel's Easter Update

Morning all,

Welcome to Easter Monday.  Had a fantastic few days visiting mum.  Did some Spring Cleaning (well its Spring somewhere in the world) and did some librarian type work with mum's books (she should be able to find most of them now ...maybe).

We also planted the two roses I gave mum as Easter presents and we've stitched.  And stitched.  And stitched.

I started worked on and completed Stellar the newest colourscape from Patti at Moonflower designs.  I also did little scattered bits on Singularity by FireWing Designs and FireFlower by Needlemania designs but not enough to take pictures.

I also received a gift from mum.  She finished the little cat piece she was working on and presented it to me.

Have about another 20 hours here before heading home, so more relaxation today.  I'm loving this !!!!!

Fire flower mistake

OK this is the only way I can show where I made my mistake that necessitated removing the entire bottom left diagonal motif set and redoing it. The image on the left is the wrong one, the image on the right is the fixed correct one ...

'Cause I'm a frog - yeah yeah yeah

'Cause I'm a frog - yeah yeah yeah ...

I'm a F R O .... I'm a frog yeah yeah yeah !!!!!

Had to frog the entire left bottom triangular bit tonight. Frogged it all and got some of the stitching re-done .....

First time I've picked up a needle in over a week .......

Fire Flower - one skein finished

First complete skein of Carrie's "Almost Autumn" limited edition thread all used up. Pic here. I did this so others can see how much one skein of Carrie's floss will typically cover on this design.

Oh and the entire vertical row on the left side of the bottom round motif .... well although it doesn't look like it, the entire column needs to be moved diagonally left and down one stitch ......

Will start that tomorrow - off to bed now - just finished watching Love Actually yet again!!!!

Off to bed with Harry Dresden (half way through Fools Moon).

Fire Flower SAL - started

OK here's my first night's stitching on this one.   Fire Flower album.

Its a great design to stitch - the design elements really seem to flow from one element to the next - just load up the needle and keep going !!!! Marvellous!

Black takes a while to get used to again .... but once I got my eye in, it just stitched up so easily!

So wish I could stay home tomorrow and work on this some more ... but now my eyes are sore and I'm tired and I'm off to bed. Hope everyone else has had a great day!