Monday, April 20, 2015

Last week's progress (April 13-19)

Last week I was working on the breast cancer cross stitch for my cousin. I ran out of the green color that goes around the border, so I was delayed a few days until I was able to get another skein. Then I started stitching with 2 strands of thread instead of 3. I had used a whole length of 2 strands, and then as I was threading my needle again, I noticed it. I had to pull out all of those stitches and start again with 3 strands. Ugh! Below is my progress on it. I will probably get finished today or tomorrow.



During the few days that I couldn't work on the breast cancer piece, I started on my Green Flips by Lizzie Kate. I got 2 finished and started on a 3rd. They're so cute! I decided to change a couple of colors because I didn't feel that they looked very good. I'm using the DMC conversion, so maybe that's why it didn't look just right. I'll explain all of my substitutions when I post my finish. 



I was a bad girl and ordered 2 of the Celtic Ladies by Lavender and Lace, but I was good by ordering the from eBay and saving a few dollars. I might join a L&L SAL on Facebook with one of them. It starts July 5th. 

I joined a Summer/Winter challenge, also on Facebook. It starts June 22nd and if I complete my chosen project by September 22nd, I'll be entered into a drawing for a goodie bag. The design I chose for this challenge is a freebie found at this website. Below is my printed pattern. 


It originally printed on one page, but the symbols were too tiny for me to read it. I opened the image in paint and cropped it in half. I printed each half on a full sheet of paper. Now I can read it much better! I already have some fabric that I can use for this and have about half of the colors needed. 

This will be for my almost 3 year old, Madison. She loves the movie Frozen! She always waves her hands around and says she's doing magic like Elsa. 

Have a good week! :) 


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2 comments:

  1. Joyce Clark FrankApril 21, 2015 at 4:33 AM

    Cheryl, I love your cross stitching you are stitching on. They are all great.
    Cheryl, I wish I could help with The Garden of Joy, but I don't have the pattern any longer.I have been using my own small designs to fill them. The patterns were put up for download each week and I saved them on my computer. Then my computer went down and I lost them as well as other designs I had downloaded. I started this in 2009 and have been slow stitching it in full.

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    1. CherylApril 21, 2015 at 8:55 AM

      Oh that stinks that you lost all of your files! Your Garden of Joy looks great. (and all of your other pieces too!) Your blog is where I first saw it, and I have been obsessively searching for it! :) I've only found one other blogger that was also working on it. She hasn't posted on her blog in quite a while, so I'm not sure of she'll see the comment that I sent to her. Thanks for responding to my question. I think you're the first visitor to my blog!

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