Drum roll.... Little House Needle works

Hurray, finally I am able to complete on time the Little House Needle works project. This was started last year in February 2018, stitched probably 20% of it so and then restarted it again in Aug of 2019. Spent couple of hours stitching during the holidays and Weekends. This particular project was on my wish list for many years but once we moved to our new house in June, I got the inspiration to complete this project.

I made a 2 changes to make this more personal.

At the top I added or last Names - MARTHIS and I added one boy and one man on the right to represent out family. :)

I am proud on how the final project looks like - Here are few pics towards the completion of the project. 

2019/11/7 - Little House Neighbourhood

2019/11/7 - Little House Neighbourhood

Planning to drop the piece tomorrow at The Framers Workshop. Hope to have this framed and returned right on time before our 15th Anniversary. :)

Happy X-stitching.

Little House Neighbourhood - Almost close to completion

Very soon we will be celebrating our 15th Anniversary and I decided to complete this project framed and ready to be hung in our living room before our Anniversary date. Eager to get this ready for framing, I sat for nearly 20 hours this week end to complete.... Guess what, I ran out of one of threads :(. So now I have to run in the evening to Hobby Lobby (closest shop for thread work) and get the missing color. Hoping to finish the piece, iron and hand it over to the framer hopefully by this weekend. Fingers crossed.....

So here are the some of the pics of how the progress happened since my last update on this project.

I am planning to replace the lady and hen on the right (from the original pic) with a man and boy. Have to see how it goes... but that seems like a plan to make this more personal. 

Happy X-Stitching.

Oh Boy - DIY fun project

So this blog is something non-related to my usual stitching post. Few days back our team (with whom I work) arranged a baby shower for one of my colleagues - Mr. Y and the moment I came to know about the plan, I decided to do something DIY project for the event. Believe it or not, it is a lot of fun and joy doing such DIY projects for the near and dear ones. There are some beautiful DIY projects out there on the web but I have to choose the one where Mr. Y also feels comfortable with the stuff that we use. With him being quite Introvert, I have to be extra careful that I don't go over the board and finally here is what I came up with.

I am glad the event was a lot of fun and Mr. Y and the whole team had a good fun. BTW, the best part was when Mr. Y was reading out those beautiful messages (some of those messages are very creative) :) 

Here are few pics of the items that I have put together for the event.

Rest of my colleagues wrote their baby wishes on these shillots

And this cute box carried all the wonderful baby wishes

I got the template for the 3 inch Shillots from here and the banner templates from here.

Happy X-stitching. 

Little more progress on Little House Neighbourhood

So here I am with my update since my last post on the Little House Neighbourhood. It is always fun to see the progress and feel that the project is one step closer to completion. As this project is very much divided into sections on its own, my goal is to complete the atleast one section every weekend. And here is my update from the week end of 8/17/2019.

As a side note, it is so much joy to sit in the front patio overseeing the park right across the street and stitching this project :)

This weekend (8/24/2019), I worked on the Tree, birds and the sheet. Started on the third house.

Happy X-Stitching.

Update on Little House Neighbourhood

Finally got some time to post an update on the Little House Needlework. Since my last update on Little House Neighborhood, I started the project on 2/13/2018. Huh.... yes it is almost 18 months  back that I started this project. But worked on this piece on the month Feb of 2018 and shelved it until today. There are many reasons why I was unable to continue on this project (some good and some not so good reasons). Finally here I am dusted of the project and started working on for couple of hours today (8/10/2019). Here are few pictures on its progress.....

LHN - 2/13/2018

LHN - Feb - 2018

 And today I worked on most of the top left house.

LHN - 8/10/2019

If you have glanced through my blog, you will see that most of my projects are from Nora's or Mirabilia charts. I think after a very long time, I am doing non-Mira project and for sure this project is quite easy compared to Mira projects. As you can see, most of the stitching is in blocks and is so much easy x-stitch without any fear of miscounting. I am excited to now complete this project and display it in my living room at the earlier. :) 

Happy X-stitching...... 

Coming back with Isabella's Garden

Wow.... it has been almost 2+ years that I have blogged anything about my stitching nor did I do any stitching. Few days back, I saw a finished piece of Italian Lady (Designer - Sharon Christine designs ; Framing - Jill Rensel) and was awestruck at the beautiful piece. Felt inspired and motivated to start a new cross-stitch.

So went back to my stitching shelf to dust off and see what should I do. Reorganized my threads and felt rejunenated to see the organized thread box. :) Looked at some of the patterns that I completed in the past or wanted to do at some point in the future. And there is a WIP - Bluebell pixie (Designed - Nora Corbett). Finally decided to go with my 2 ever lasting projects on to do list -

1. Isabella's garden (Designed - Lavender & Lace) - Ordererd the required stash for this project and this will be my next project that I will do.
2. Little House Neighborhood (Designed - Little House Needlework) - Ordered pattern and fabric.

These 2 projects has been on my to-do list for a very long time and what better way to get inspired to start these now than latter.

So yes.... as soon as the stash is at my door step, I am on to Isabella's garden. :)

Happy Stitching. 

With Spring Queen, Rose & Holly - feeling ecstatic

ECSTATIC - Yes, I am totally over the 9th cloud seeing my dream project - Spring Queen, Holly and Rose Pixie. Absolutely no words to say. Nor do these pics can shout out loud how beautiful they look. All three framed on 10/29/2015 from a local framer - Mario's Bay Frames.  I highly recommend this framer as he has good collection of frames and matting. To top it, he also has an artistic eye. 

The best compliment was when my husband was awe-struck seeing Frame Spring Queen pic. His expression and words were "Did you make this ? " :) Now I am all charged to work on my WIP - BlueBell Pixie. 

Spring Queen - Framed on 10/29/2015

Rose Pixie  - Framed on 10/29/2015

Holly -  - Framed on 10/29/2015

Enjoy the pictures just as I do. :) 

Happy Stitching. 

Bluebell Pixie - on its way

So, got some inspiration to get back to my stitching. Have started Bluebell Pixi sometime during the middle of 2014 but then it has been couple of months that I did any more progress on this front. Finally got to do about 6 hours of stitching today and here is the progress sofar that I have on Bluebell Pixie. Did some whites, and her legs. Ofcourse, Mr frog has crept in without my knowledge and it took some time to convince Mr Frog that he reached wrong address. Watch out you stitchers, Mr Frog is on its way to next house. :)

Bluebell Pixie - as of 1/4/2015

Happy Stitching....... 

Happy new year -2015

wishing you all a ver hapy new year. And I really wish each one of you reading this blog post a happy and healthy to all your famil members.

So what happened in 2014 -

• Finished spring queen. Yes only one project was complete in 2014. 
• Moved to our new owned home. 

Lessons learnt in 2014 and goals for 2015-

• Health is smore important than anything in life. Do what ever it takes to be healthy nd maintain good health for your near and dear ones as well. 
• Maintain budgets for your spending. Bring all the budgets under control. Spend money after saving what is budgeted. Not saving after spending. 
• Look for a new job. Though we love what we do, it is not sufficient if it is not paying the bills for you. At the end of the day, you still have bills to pay for and you can't escape from them. So my next and one of the most important goals is to find one. 
• Spend less time on any means of social media (facebook, Skype, Internet etc) and more time with family members, stitching, learning something new related job etc. 
• Finish Bluebell pixie and start on the next mirabilia - biancebella. 

Hope you all also have set aside your goals for 2015 and wish you strive towards reaching your goals. 

Happy stitching - :)

Getting back to stitching

Wow....didn't realize that it is almost 3 months that I posted on my stitching blog. Too bad. Well.....trying to convince myself by saying that things are pretty hectic on a personal front. One of the important things to share is that I sold off my first home (am glad that the transaction went as smooth as I can hope her though I feel really bad to sell it). On a happier note, I bought another bigger and newer flat in my dream city where I plan to retire.

On a stitching front, I think I should be having all the stash needed for me to start working on Bluebell Pixie. So this will be next WIP while I start gathering my stash for Binacebella and Buttercup pixie. They seem to be very pretty though seem to be very expensive.

See you all in my next post when I start updating my BlueBell Pixie updates.....

Happy Stitching..... :)

Spring Queen - No words to say

I am literally falling short of words to describe how beautiful my third Mira - "Spring Queen" looks like. Until I started on her bead work, I was happy how she was but once I started beading, I was literally ecstatic. She is an absolute pleasure to stitch her. I started beading on her on 2/8/2014 around 10:00 AM and with occasional breaks I completed all her beading by around 11:30 PM. Just couldn't put her down to some other day once I started to bead her. She is absolute stunning piece, and if I get a chance to get it framed from Jill Rensel, then I am sure there is nothing in this world to compare / describe her beauty. And it will truly become as my 6 yr old said - "She is sparkling as nothing in this world"...... :) Here are some pics of her. 

Spring Queen - March 2012 - Feb 2014

Spring Queen - Have to admire her royal look

A beautiful bouquet for Spring Queen

Now that I am done with Spring Queen, I will most likely move on to Blue Bell pixie while I place my order for Buttercup pixie and Biancebella. Both are very vibrant colors. Just so getting hooked up to Mira / Nora charts. But no regrets.

Happy Stitching..... :) 

Spring Queen - Moving on to her face and hair

Here is the latest pic of Spring Queen. I was hoping to complete her in 2013 but obviously she wanted to be pampered a little even in 2014. I have to cover up a little bit in the center(missing one row of it) on one of the leaves areas. I hope it is NOT obvious.

Spring Queen - as of 12/30/2013

Happy Stitching..... :) 

Happy Holidays

I hope all the stitcher community had a wonderful Christmas with family and friends and looking forward to a very Happy New Year. From my side, yes we did have a wonderful time with my sister's family, spent some time at Vegas and now back to home. Eager to finish my Spring Queen by New Year so that I can start working on my next Mira project. (Still haven't decided what that next big project will be). I have some update on Spring Queen that I might share in my next post. Also getting my Rose and Holly Pixies framed.

Happy Stitching.... :)

Spring Queen - Thanks Giving Weekend update

Though it has been a while that I posted my update on Spring Queen, there is not much progress to be shown until this past Thanks Giving weekend. Here is what I have so far on Spring Queen. Most of the part above the ribbon is what I have done in the last couple of days and I would say 60%  of it was done just during the Thanks Giving weekend alone. If you notice, there is an unstitched part at the center and I left it like for that for now is because I did some mistake in that section and I have to figure out on how to correct it or cover it. Atleast I isolated the mistake only to that portion of it. I hope I will not make that mistake to be too obvious once I am done. :) 

Spring Queen - As of 12/1/2013

I hope all the Xstitchers out there had a wonderful Thanks Giving and were able to spend enough time on stitching your favourite piece. 

Happy Stitching.

Spring Queen - Back in action

With Holly completion, it is now time for Spring Queen to come back to action. This definitely is a beautiful piece and also a very time consuming project....well no complains but all Miras are like that......So here is the Spring Queen before I put it aside to complete Rose Pixie and Holly Pixie.I only hope Mr Frog does NOT visit me while I am working on this beauty. ;)

Spring Queen - Back to action on 10/20/2013

Happy Stitching......

Happy dance for Holly

Yippee......Singing a Happy Dance for Holly - my fourth pixie of Nora Corbett's. It is always a pleasure to see a project coming to an end and feeling proud about self. Finally here she is the beauty that I am talking about......Looking for good framers to get this and Rose pixes framed. Burnt my time, money, excitement and fun framing at Michaels that it is no more an option that I want to consider.

If there any good framers that you would refer (in Bay Area), please drop in a message.

A closeup of Holly

With her beautiful flowing curly dress

Can she fly with her delicate wings

Finally here is Holly all decked up for framing..... :)

 

Final Holly - 10/19/2013

 Most likely I will now move on to Spring Queen (a WIP that is untouched since one year) and then on to Bluebell.....

Happy Stitching......

Holly after 2nd weekend progress

Here is my Holly after almost 2 weeks of effort. She is coming along great. But for some reason, Mr Frog also is so keen on visiting her quite often.I hope he doesn't slow down my Holly progress.

Holly - As of 8/11/2013

Happy Stitching..... :)

Holly - with one weekend effort

This is my first cut of Holly after a weekend effort in bringing her to life......Mr Frog was visiting so often while doing this project. I hope he had enough of his turns that he will NOT come back again atleast not until I finish this. :)

Holly - As of 8/4/2013

Happy Stitching....... :)

"Holly Pixie" - Curtain Raiser

Now that I am done with Rose Pixie, made all my stash ready for my next Pixie  - "Holly". So here is what I have for Holly...... :)

"Holly Pixie" - All set to go as of 7/5/2013

 Happy Stitching......

Happy Dance for "Rose Pixie"

Hurray, I am done with Rose Pixie...... Oo...La....La....La.......My first 2013 finish......Now it waits in the case for its turn for the final makeover (Framing).......

Rose Pixie - Finished on 7/5/2013

A Closeup of Rose Pixie - with her beautiful beads.....

 Happy Stitching......