A Small Update

Here is pansy number five on the SAL I am (slowly) stitching with Renee. I found this one tough to stitch, because two of the colors of orange are so very close... I think they were 221 and 222 (though I could be remembering wrong). But anyway, here it is. Click here to see my progress so far on the whole piece; I have done five out of sixteen pansies.

I really haven't felt much like stitching in the last couple of months. I've been pretty stressed out, so stitching would have been a good idea, but I just couldn't seem to buckle down to it in the evenings.

Now I am trying to frame and otherwise finish some things I made earlier this year (of course I am giving some of these things away for Christmas). Here are a couple of things I framed this week:


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I framed the rooster on the left in a trivet from Sudberry House, but I almost think it would be better used as a dresser tray or something. There is nothing remotely watertight about that "trivet," and if anything spilled on it I don't think it would fare too well. On the right is a small Marjolein Bastin design (my first foray with evenweave, if I remember correctly) framed in a matted wood frame from IKEA. Neither of these are too fancy but I do think they look nice.

I have some wooden boxes with frame holes cut in the top, and now I am trying to figure out how to line the boxes once I get the needlework in there. I have no idea. I am imagining some kind of process involving velvet, batting, and a hot glue gun, but maybe there is an easier way? Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

Sorry I haven't been keeping this blog up too well. I am in my 8th month of pregnancy now, and it is very difficult to concentrate on stitching or writing about stitching. I'm also dealing with gestational diabetes and it has pretty much knocked me for a loop. I am slowly regaining my equilibrium but it is taking a while.

I'll post more pictures of the finished pieces as I get them done.