Finishes! and progress on WIP's

I'm a little late with my update, since I had oral surgery earlier this week, but I'm feeling better now and have had some nice stitching time this week :)

I have one small finish, a Christmas card stitch of a MS design, which I'll make into cards with a bunch of others when I have enough done:

Also, by our Monday deadline I was nearly finished with one of the penguins from the MS christmas design. I should have him done later tonight, unless I fall asleep first :) Unfortunately, the french knots for his eyes are too big, but I can't seem to make them any smaller, so they'll have to do as they are.

 I've also been making good progress on my wizard bear, and hopefully will be done with him before this week is through. He was supposed to be for a card, but I've been thinking about other ways to use him, since he was a bit of work to stitch.

Happy Stitching!
Melanie
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www.wildsprite.com/blog

Happy Little Finish

A couple of weeks ago, I purchased the Fantasy Bears chart pack (thanks Melanie for the info!) and here's the first one finished.  This lovely Mermaid Bear is for my daughter's 8th birthday tomorrow. Think she will like it!

progress on wizard!

Happy Easter!
I've done a bit of stitching in the last two weeks, so wanted to share my progress!

Should be done soon at this rate! I think I might just fold him nicely and store until I can figure out exactly how to finish him... maybe a toy tote bag for a toddler?

Happy Stitching!
Melanie
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www.wildsprite.com/blog

Wizard bear progress!

Hi all!
I actually made some progress since my last post, so thought I'd share!
Here's the pattern (left) with my 3/20 progress, then tonight (3/26)

I guess I shouldn't have started with the green edging, since it keeps bleeding into the white... but I was getting so sick of all those shades of grey :D

Happy Stitching!
Melanie
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www.wildsprite.com/blog

My current WIP's

Hi Stitching Friends!
Since this is my first post, I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm Melanie, and I live on Cape Cod (Massachusetts, US). I have an unfortunate number of WIP's, mostly in neat ziplock bags with their patterns stored in boxes waiting until I get around to them again. But there are two right now in my active WIP bin, so figured I'd share them in the hopes that I will now get motivated to finish!  I just realized that this is the first time in a long time that I don't have a MS design in my WIP bin...

First, I've been working on Mirabilia/Nora Corbett's Mermaids of the Deep. (edit) I just took a new picture of it to show where my "starting" point is. This is what it looks like tonight. I wish the sparkly fabric and iridescent threads showed up better; I'll have to get better lighting next time! I would be farther along, but I just frogged all the skin I had done, since I decided to stitch it over 1 instead of over 2. This is 40-count fabric, so at first I thought it was a horrible idea (my poor eyes). But now I'm glad I did it because it looks great. Now I just need the motivation to finish :)

 

Here's a link to a close-up of her skin, for anyone who wants to see my over 1 stitches. My camera doesn't do great up-close photos; I'll post a better one to my blog in a few days.

 Since I felt like I was getting nowhere on this one, I started a series of small projects. My most recent is from the Fantasy Bears series by Vermillion Stitchery.

I think I might be posting between the biweekly dates, so I'll try to make progress by the next one!

Happy Stitching!
Melanie
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www.wildsprite.com/blog