Miss Dragonfly is finished

I went back to Miss Dragonfly last Friday, and was able to finish her up yesterday morning. The black thread is Rainbow Gallery Wisper, which takes quite a bit longer to work with than regular floss (it's fuzzy, which means you have to use short lengths and pull through the fabric slowly as it tends to knot easily), but it does give a nice effect, especially for an insect-inspired design:

I am happy that I was able to finish her, as last week a Mirabilia model landed on my doorstep, so now I can use the Q snap that Miss Dragonfly was on to start that. I think I'm going to try alternating between the Rosewood Manor piece and the Mirabilia on a weekly basis for a while, then slip in one of the Tempting Tangles designs and see how much progress I can make that way. Regardless, I won't have much stitching I can share here for a while, though I think the Nora Corbett releases for July might be ones I've stitched, so hopefully I'll have a post then.

Hope everyone has a great stitchy week!

One down, three to go

Last week I finished the first of three models for Tempting Tangles, Quakers in England. It is currently a SAL on Facebook, where the first five parts have been released. Here are those parts:

This is the third in Deb's "Quakers in..." series. The Holland SAL has finished (but the chart is still available) and France is ongoing on FB right now; all three can be found in Deb's Etsy shop. There are two more countries in the works, Japan and Scotland, and I wouldn't be surprised to see more!

Once England was finished I started on a Rosewood Manor model right away, but this past weekend I was just really missing stitching for myself as I hadn't done so for over a month, so I spent some time on Nora Corbett's Miss Dragonfly. Here is where I left her as of last February:

And as of this morning (I wanted to finish those wings!):

Now that the wings and skin are done (with all those partial stitches to give them clean lines) the rest should go pretty quickly; I'm hoping that I might be able to complete her next weekend. For now it's back to "work"...

Hope everyone has a great stitchy week!