YAY!! I finished the Artemisia Butterfly.
The finished piece is about 6 inches wide by about 4 inches tall. It is stitched on 28-count White Monaco.
Here is the other one I finished in January: Marsyas
Two down, six more to go!
Today is TUSAL (Totally Useless Stitch A Long) post day!
Here is my ORT jar progress so far:
To read about TUSAL, visit Daffycat’s blog.
See you on the next new moon!
For the little one’s Valentine party at school, he (and by that I mean me) was tasked with taking a cereal box and turning it into a recepticle for the kids to drop their cards into. This is what we (I) came up with:
This was made with stuff found entirely in my craft room (except the cereal box – I don’t hoard cereal). I used some shiny red fabric left over from a Halloween costume, a scrap of orange felt for the teeth, pipe cleaners for the “hair,” and a styrofoam ball cut in half for the eyeballs.
Sometimes it is nice to have a boy because you can get away from all the cutesy stuff and go wild!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
I’m not a big fan of Valentine’s Day. I think there is too much pressure to be all lovey-dovey and that is certainly not me. But, this year I decided to make my hubby a gift. Of course, it was something I saw on Pinterest.
It was a little canvas with black/white stripes and a red heart covered in buttons.
After only one trip to JoAnn’s to pick up my supplies (I can’t believe I remembered to get everything in one trip! YAY!), this is what I have:
Step one was to draw the lines. Since my canvas is 10 x 10, I figured I would go easy on myself and mark 2″ lines. I didn’t want to have to paint over black, so I painted the red heart before I colored in the black.
And here it is with the lines and heart finished. I used metallic white and black paint for a little sparkle, although it is hard to see in the photos.
Now off to glue on some red buttons! I LOVE BUTTONS!
I glued two layers of buttons to ensure decent coverage using plain ol’ white glue. Ohh, buttons are pretty… Did I mention that I love buttons?
I stenciled “You & Me” on the bottom white line and TA-DA!
It definitely looks “home made” with the uneven stenciling and some of the buttons being a little out of whack, but, overall, I like the way it turned out. I’m sure he won’t think it is as cute as I do, but I’d rather give something I made than something from the store.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
For the YOTA challenge hosted by Pull the Other Thread, I have been stitching on my UFO “Home Sweet Home” by La-D-Da.
This was my progress when I pulled it out of hiding in mid-January:
When it is finished, it will hopefully look something similar to this:
And, drum roll please, this is my progress to date:
Not as much as I would have hoped considering the amount of hours I have put into it in the few weeks.
Once I started stitching on it, I remembered why I put it down. I am having problems with the vines. I don’t like how they are spaced. There are some that are all bunched up together and then there are random blank spaces. I don’t like it at all. And I can’t just stitch them as the pattern calls for because it will drive me absolutely bonkers staring at it on the wall knowing that the vines are not evenly spaced.
So, what am I having to do? Alter the pattern. As I stitch, I am having to figure out which spots have too many vines and then trying to figure out which ones I can remove to make it look better. And it is taking FOREVER.
In order to not drive myself too crazy, I think I am now going to switch to my other YOTA project I dug out of the bucket of cross stitch stuff. It is “The Legend of the Dogwood Tree” by Praying Hands. I will stitch on TLOTDT until the next YOTA post in March.