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......