And So It Begins AGAIN

This was where I left off 2 years ago! and so I will start here and work backwards until it's complete.  This Home Study had 8 lessons which were supposed to take 1 month of work each.  It's hard to keep up that kind of momentum for 8 months, but I've had a nice long break.

This lesson (#8) was the final witch and the cat pull toy - the cat is being pulled by the witch with the green dress.  I'm going to give myself the month of August to finish this lesson and maybe some wrap-up on previous lessons.

Should be fun!

One Final Photo

Sunday wrap-up and Moving On

Hi there,

This is the last flower (bud).  I re-did this at least 4 times this morning until I realized that if I didn't quit I would run out of thread.  So I'm just going to do a little fill in and call it a WRAP!

One more bird and this is off to the framer - OH YEAH!

And then I am going back to the Pumpkin Parade!

Hope everyone has a wonderful week!

More Orange and Yellow Flowers

And you know what this means?  That I am almost done!  

One more diamond and two birds to do!!!

Three Birds on a Branch

Hi there,

I was tired of looking at yellow basting thread, so just to see what the finished project will look like I decided to put in the long stitches that outline the diamonds.  Looking good!

I also finally chose the kreinik for the the little bird legs and beaded the last bird on the upper right section of the canvas.   So this section is done!

This leaves the lower right section with the tall flowers to do next, which I will tackle this week.  Shouldn't be too bad since I did the background already.

After this is done there is only one more diamond to stitch and 2 birds and then I should be done with this project.

This has been in my closet for 2 years and looks like I will be able to finish it with only 4-5 weeks of work.  Maybe I should try this again 😊

Have a great week!

Flowers and Birds

Hi there,

Here's the first pass of the big pink flower.  The entire flower is buttonhole with long stitches to fill in the gaps.  I only did the "fill in" on the outer dark pink layer.

And here it is completed 💕

Next,  I went down to the finch underneath - that's a LOT of beads.  I still have to do the tail, his beak, his legs and finish the branch - that's for today.

Here is a bigger picture

Once I clean up and finish this little bird it's back to the background so I can finish the yellow and orange flowers on the right.  I see my stitching pattern now... bird - background- flower-repeat!  Yes, there will come a point when I finish the background 😀

Happy Wednesday!

Summer of Ruth

Hi there,

It feels like I've been working on this canvas for MONTHS, but apparently it's been 2 weeks.   Such is the extent of my attention span.  I have been working on it for about 4 hours a day though without switching projects so maybe that's it.  I'm quite sure it's a record for me.

Here's 2 weeks of work.

Finally finished the background in this diamond! So now I can do the red stem and leaves.  And then the big pink flower.

Upper right section - finished the branch and two birds.  Trying to decide which Kreinik to use for their legs.  I'm leaning towards the one on the middle bird.

And the big orange flower is done!

Flowers on the left done!

Red stem and 3 big leaves are complete.

I am SO OVER the compensating, but today I get to do the big pink flower as a reward.

WHEN I finish this canvas I think I'll catch up on the Row of Ladies II.  I have all my Ruth Mystery Class stitch guides in one binder so it's pretty hard to ignore them 😆

Have a great week!