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 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......

Rose Pixie - Almost close to finish line

Finally after almost 7 months of putting away my favorite hobby (had some really good times and some were really worst times), got inspiration to pick Rose and make her reach the finish line. So here she is - would have reached the finish line.....if the back-stitch thread didn't run out of stash....... Now I have to shop for a DMC for back-stitching. No wonder, Mira or Nora design look ever beautiful and richly once the beads are added. This is my third Pixie (First being Evening  Primrose and second being Waterlily).

Rose Pixie - As of 7/4/2013

Happy 4th of July and Happy Stitching..... :)

Rose Pixie - Close to finish line

No complaints but these days, I am able to do stitching only on weekends. So the last two days I was working on her hair, wings and legs. God, I have confetti stitching....so many threads to change, and absolutely hate it if Mr Frog visits.  Thank goodness, her hair is done. Now only her hands and face is pending and they she will ready for her final finishes with back stitching and beads.

So here is it.......she still needs to get her glitters. :)

Rose Pixie - as of 11/11/2012

 Happy Stitching..... :)

Rose Pixie - Getting her wings

Finally after working on her dress for two weekends, her dress is almost ready with her beads pendings. Now she is slowly getting her wings. Can't wait to get her along soon.

So here she is with her dress and blouse almost done.

Rose Pixie - As of 11/4/2012

Happy Stitching. :)

Rose - pixie - Getting her dress ready

After taking up a new job in finance, I hardly get time to do household chores (Well trying to get some lame excuse for my laziness). Now I am able to do stitching only on weekends. So this weekend, I have done some more progress on her dress. Seems to be a bit of challenge to do her pink dress though it is lovely especially with pink color variations being so close to each other. Just wanted to get over with her dress before I can move on to her wings, hands, legs and head.

Will be posting a picture of the latest soon. But again most likely my next update will be again on the weekend.

Happy Stitching...... :) 

Curtain raiser for Rose Pixie

It has been a while that I did any cross-stitching. Life has been bit busy but still having fun. Obviously facebook Mirabilia group is truly a inspiration for stitching. Now after seeing couple of finishes on the group forum, I decided let me start a new one. Yes.....was working on Spring Queen for a while but now I shelved it as I felt I need a new one to be hanging in my Family room. And what else could be completed fast enough than a Nora Corbett Pixie.

So yesterday I started on the Rose Pixie. But realized one of the threads - 3860 is missing. So in the near future, I might have to make a trip to Michaels or Joanns for that missing thread. I love doing Pixies, they are pretty and at the same time real fast projects. So here is the Rose Pixie after working for couple of hours since yesterday.

Rose pixie - as of 10/21/2012

 I am planning to do Holly next. So I guess it is going to take a while before I start again on Spring Queen.

Happy Stitching...... :)

Evening Prim rose pixie - Final Makeover

Here is the framed piece of the Evening PrimRose Pixie. The pic does no justice to the finished piece in real. I have gifted this to my cousin sis(my sis's co-sis) and has now reached its final destination - Finland. I am glad I am able to take a final look at it before it left to Finland.

Evening Primrose - 2012 Finish

Happy Stitching...... :)

Stash for 3 more pixies on way

Today I have ordered the fabric (32ct Antique White Jobelan), Krenik and Mill Hill Beads for Holly, Rose and BlueBell Pixies from 123 stitch. When I get a deal in Michaels, I will go shop for the DMC threads.

Hopefully this will be end of my stash buying for this year. I will be lucky enough if I can complete these 3 pixies and the Spring Queen (Mira WIP) by end of this year. Planning to gift the pixies one each for my MIL and for my sis MIL and the rest for my self. Let me see how it goes.

Happy Stitching.............. :)  

Waterlily - ready to take its place

Phew.....finally I got my Waterlily framed and all dressed up and now is ready to take its place in my front room. Super excited to see it hanging on the wall as it is my first Mira / Nora that made for myself.

So here is the pic of the framed piece.

Waterlily - 2012 Finish 

Happy Stitching...... :) 

Pixies charts to kit up

Now that I have charts for Rose, Holly, Tigerlily and Sweet Pea pixes, I might start collecting the stash for these pixies soon....Well not really, I don't think I want to start any new project until I finish my Spring Queen. I guess I am better at being a serial stitcher rather than round robin stitcher as my inspiration to do more stitching doubles seeing the finished pieces.

Any how, for some time, I will be in the sleep mode w.r.t to stitching. I guess I need to stop looking at the Facebook group as well as it influences me a lot to do more stitching. And I cannot afford to have that influence at this point of time...... :)

Until then Happy stithcing...... :)

Waterlily - Happy Dance

Thah Dhah......my Waterlily is now ready to go for some final makeover(framing). Super excited to do this Pixie. Started on 3/12/2012 and completed on 3/18/2012 - surprisingly completed this in just 6 days.

Here are some of the pics........

WaterLily - 3/12/2012 to 3/18/2012

Waterlily - A closeup of her face and wings

Happy Stitching...... :)

Waterlily - Moving on to beading

Waterlily is almost reaching its finish line. Little bit more gaps to be filled by DMC 553 and then will be moving on to back stitch and beading.....Yeh.....Can't wait to get her done and framed. Most likely this might be my first Mira / Nora Corbett hanging on my wall......Super excited. :)

Waterlily - as of 3/17/2012

Happy Stitching...... :) 

Waterlily - Some more progress

Have worked on the pixie today and did quite a bit......Almost done with the wings except that I need to fill in the whites.....Planning to replace it with light pink(DMC 819). Wonder how it will come. I really am loving to stitch this pixie. So far it is pretty easy and fast moving pixie. Next will be her legs, hands and face. :)

Here are the pics as of today.

Waterlily - As of 3/16/2012

Happy Stitching...... :)

Waterlily - Day one effort

Here is the update from one day's stitching. I know I should be doing something else than stitching but the pattern seems to be so tempting that I started off on this one yesterday itself after kitting up. Facebook group is another bad influencer on me for stitching. The more I see the finished patterns, the more feel like wanting to see how mine will turn out to be. So here is the sneak peak of the day one effort. Colors are much brighter than seen in the pic. Seems to be a relatively easy pattern.

Waterlily - as on 3/13/2012

 Happy Stitching........