Thursday 10 March 2011

Progress Report HCS 6

Hello there everyone.   Life has been a little too busy for blogging this week but I have been stitching.   Spain was finished as planned and I have now ventured into Scandanavia.  

This section is interesting as there are more specialty stitches.   These cute little eyelets were particularly pleasing. 


Here's a close up shot of the eyelets.  


That white satin stitch block to the upper left was accompanied by three lots of reverse stitching and a great deal of frustration but the finished result is worth all the angst.
(All photos should be clickable)

While I have not quite finished this section I fully expect to do so over the weekend.   Then with the sampler half finished I am putting it away for a brief time as I want to make a stitched memory book for my god-daughters 18th birthday in July.   The designing and the wording have all been completed -  I have the fabric and threads selected and prepared so now I need to get my skates on and begin the stitching.   July will come soon enough!

Have a great evening everyone.

4 comments:

Scrap said...

c'est merveilleux !!! very nice !

Smily-Света said...

It looks very nice and interesting? What will be the next part?

Catherine said...

This is coming along nicely! So colorful!

sheri said...

Wow, that is some amazing stitching! I really like the eyelet stitches. Very pretty. I can't imagine how difficult it must have been to reverse stitch satin stitching? You must have the patience of a Saint! I am a giant klutz and would probably end up ripping the linen.

The memory book sounds like such a lovely idea. I can't wait to see it!