Dani... Black Belt Stitching Wizard: Lanarte

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Thursday, July 02, 2015

WIP Wednesday... on Thursday

A day late and a dollar short, but here's my WIP Wednesday post!

Parliament Hill as seen from the opposite shore of the Ottawa River

I'm lucky to be living in the Nation's Capital

Yesterday was Canada Day and we had dinner and spent the evening with two other couples. We all get along so well that an evening is gone before we know it! Needless to say at almost 11PM last night I didn't really feel like blogging.

I'm already enjoying my extra long weekend, I've been off since yesterday and I don't go back to work until Monday morning. While I've been sitting here editing pictures for blog entries, and re-watching Star Trek: The Next Generation (my inner geek is very happy right now!), I keep thinking about what I want to stitch over the next couple of days. So here is what I've got in progress and that I may have worked on since my last post ... since I can't remember what's had my attention and what hasn't.

A Year In Chalk - May

Hands on Designs

Stitched on 32ct WDW Gunmetal

Stitched with GAST

First up I did have another Happy Dance yesterday! Since my last post I've started and finished the next chart I had in line for the series A Year In Chalk, May. I love how these stitch up so fast but the whole time I was working on it I kept thinking I wanted to work on something a little more complex.

Year In Chalk Jan-Jun(started)

After finishing up May in the Year in Chalk Series I started up June yesterday, but as you see I didn't get very far, I have one whale stitched up and I've started on a second. The whole time I was stitching the whale I kept thinking of the whale in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and its monologue (again, happy inner geek).

“Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.

And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more.

This is a complete record of its thoughts from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it.

Ah … ! What’s happening? it thought.

Er, excuse me, who am I?

Hello?

Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life?

What do I mean by who am I?

Calm down, get a grip now … oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It’s a sort of … yawning, tingling sensation in my … my … well I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let’s call it my stomach.

Good. Ooooh, it’s getting quite strong. And hey, what’s about this whistling roaring sound going past what I’m suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps I can call that … wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do … perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it’s for. It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What’s this thing? This … let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail. Hey! I can can really thrash it about pretty good can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on. Now – have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?

No.

Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I’m quite dizzy with anticipation …

Or is it the wind?

There really is a lot of that now isn’t it?

And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!

I wonder if it will be friends with me?

And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Prior to Cirque des Carreaux obsessing all of my needle time, I was working on Lanarte's Arabian Woman. She is well under way now.

Also receiving a bit of my needle's attention is Michael Powell's Mini River Cottages. I really should get this one finished sooner or later, its been in my stitching basket since last year. Being that its not that big or complicated, it really should of been finished a long time ago.

I also pulled out my "purse project" (this is the project that goes with me everywhere so if I find myself with some free time I have some stitching with me) it hasn't received any attention in a long time. This is one of the many motifs I've been stitching up from Rosewood Manor's Red Threads chart. Its a great one to have in your stash, not only do you have about 24 various motifs but there's a set of monograms from the alphabet and numbers!

While in that same zipper mesh bag, I also found this! A cute, little, simple kitty cat I had picked up at The Attic while in Phoenix, Arizona this past March! I had completely forgotten I had started it a few months ago!

So that's it for this week's stitching progress. I think you're going to enjoy the next blog entry I have planned for Saturday, its all the awesome finishing I've done in the last month or so. If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook you'll have an idea of what I've been up to.

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

WIP Wednesday

Its Wednesday and time for a WIP report.

It was a long weekend, but I wasn't able to get as much stitching done as I hoped. In the last week I've worked on only Arabian Woman, but between long weekend happenings and my migraines giving me a bit of a hard time since Saturday its been a challenge to get in a good amount of stitching time in.

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

WIP Wednesday & Happy Dances

Sorry for a couple of weeks of silence (again). No big reasons, I've taken to walking in the evenings which I have to admit the last thing I want to do is sit at the computer for the hour or so it takes to edit pictures and put together a blog entry. I've also had serious stitching mojo so all I've wanted to do is stitch! You'll see in a second!

Arabian Woman - close up of the area I've been focusing on

First up is my current WIP since its WIP Wednesday. After having a discussion with Christin on "what to stitch next" she talked me into pulling out Arabian Woman and making it my current focus piece. This is a Lanarte kit that I paid a small fortune for many years ago, and it deserves to be stitched! I've made some pretty good progress since I picked it up just this past weekend.

I also put a few more stitches into Mini River Cottages by Michael Powell since I last blogged. Its slowly coming along and so much fun!

Now onto the really fun stuff, HAPPY DANCES! Yes... pural! If you follow me on Instagram (tkd_chick) you'll know my needle has just been flying the last couple of weeks.

Peacock

by Alessandra Adelaide Needleworks

Stitched on: 32ct Rainbow Sparkle Lugana

Stitched with: DMC

First up is the focus piece that Arabian Woman is replacing, Peacock by Alessandra Adelaide Needleworks. I started this piece on January 1st with Christin as our New Year's Day SAL a tradition we've had for years. Some years many of our stitching friends will join in on this SAL, but this year the interest level for the piece we picked wasn't too high. It was just the two of us. This piece was a real joy to stitch and I love the blues that are used to stitch it. Originally I had planned to stitch it on white opalescent evenweave, it turned out I didn't have any in my stash but I did have some Rainbow Sparkle Lugana and I really like how the colours really pop on it.