Fairy of the Forest weekend challenge

Started Fairy of the Forest from Artecy, not sure what date so need to start keeping track better. Would also help to see a before and after to help notice the progress made.

Fairy of the Forest - Before

Fairy of the Forest - After

Rotation

My progress on the HAED Star Weaver. Second one wouldn't load in for some reason. I started this one approximately a week and a half ago.

And the Magic Dragon update.

I was thinking I should go back to the dragon since Star Weaver was only going to be stitched this past weekend but I'm kinda into it right now so think the best way to go is with the one I'm enjoying the most. Just the blue floss but it's sort of a no brainer. :) Maybe that's where I need to be at this moment. Only a little bit of counting but the grid lines help keep me on track.

Holiday stitching

Latest finish as of last night, which only took me a few days to stitch up but really like how it turned out. My camera rarely gets the color of the material right and this is no exception. It should look more like a light tan not greyish or off-white.

Next up will be one of the below patterns, not sure which I'll go with first.  Maybe the Merry Christmas one. I'm thinking green and red, then possibly something sparkly for the hearts, which would look more like snow. Have a light blue 14 ct Aida ready to go.  All of these here are freebies you can find out there. Mine were located through Pinterest.

Why Not! progress 11-4-2013

Latest on this one, and now to get back to it today. Need another finish, but this will not happen in one day. :) And I would love it if I could turn the flash off on my camera but I guess there isn't a way to do that. I checked the book and nothing there on it. Ah, just found where I can decrease the brightness, but that didn't seem to do much either.

Halloween progress

Yes, that holiday is past us now, but I'm not done stitching Halloween stuff.  Latest finishes as of last night. Freebies from Michaela Learner at Cross Stitching Guild  a facebook group. She's also working on the 4 seasons freebies and has 2 done, so I'm going to wait for the other two and eventually I may try doing the all on one piece of fabric with a boarder between them. Sounds interesting, but will wait to see what I end up deciding, and when I can get to them. Many projects waiting in the wings to get started and finished yet.

Now to get back to Why Not! my other Halloween project to be finished and hopefully that will be soon. I have a Christmas one I want to start, but need to grid the fabric first, which can be time consuming but well worth it in the end. Love working with grids!

Why Not! 10/14/2013 update

I had to darken this a bit since the picture turned out way to bright.  Would like to get all the cloudy part done and start to work down, but the greys get a bit tiring after a bit.  Might just go back down to the bottom and do some more greens.  First I could get the rest of the tree on the left done, which won't take long.

Why Not! update

Why Not! progress

I'm so loving stitching with grids.  Makes it a lot easier than I thought.  I can jump around and change colors when I get tired of one, or like the greys at the top and I worked with a bit of green.  Then I jumped down to stitch some dirt at the bottom.  I don't think I would go back to no grids now and the mechanical pencils (cheap at the dollar store) work like a dream.  I made sure they would wash out and now have no worries about getting rid of them once the project is finished.

More Halloween cross stitch

Grabbed this freebie from Cross Stitching Guild  Should be a quickie and I have it started.  Maybe finish today or tomorrow. There's a companion that will go with it but not sure when I might get to that one as I have two more Halloween cross stitch projects in the works to get done. 

Have more Halloween decorations to put out and clean the house up.

Old Witch Mary Update

Had a couple of days not feeling up to par, but I guess the upside is it wasn't all that terrible either. Stitching did suffer a tiny bit but got some done and more yesterday and today.  Not too much left to do, some leaves and the rest of the letters to put in then it will be done and I'll hunt for a frame for to house it.

Have to say this has been a fun one to do, and am happy with choosing a different material to work it up on.  It's only a bit larger but enough that I like it this way. Once this is finished I really need to get back to A Whole Lotta Latte and finish that one.

Old Witch Mary 8/7/13

Old Witch Mary

Ordered and received the six skeins of floss I needed for this one.  Bought two of the eight at Walmart but that was all they had.  This is suppose to be worked up on 32 ct. Belfast Linen Thunderstorm but I'm using 14 ct. Marble Aida. The original is 6 3/4" x 6 3/4" and mine will be 8" x 8" which I'm more than fine with.  This is going to be a nice break from working on A Whole Lotta Latte on black Aida.  I think the end result will be as good as the original.  As long as I'm pleased with it that's all that counts.

I did get a late start yesterday, as in very late in the afternoon.  Eventually I got everything situated the way I wanted to make my stitching easier and comfortable.  Am hoping this works up fairly fast and I think it will.  Then I can start one of my other Halloween projects.  Can't wait to get a couple or three of these done before the holiday begins.

This is what mine will look like. The gap in the upper right corner is where the moon goes.  I'm thinking of trying something else instead of the plain white it calls for.  If I'm no happy with my own choice I can always rip it out and do it over.

This is what the original looks like. It can be found quite easy with a simple search.