I made some good progress on "Gathering Honey". I finished the beehive, added the bees and planted a couple of rows in my garden. I am completed the back stitching as I work on each section.
This is how it looked last month:
I also pulled out Teresa Wentzler's Castle Sampler:
This is where I left off last time ... very slow progress on this one.
I made some progress on my Halloween Pumpkin:
You can see my progress from the last photo:
Topic of the Month: the Olympics Stitch-along Challenge
I plan to join in on the Olympics Stitch-a-long. I have so many big projects to work on ... so I think I will participate in the "Rotation Challenge". There are 17 days of the Olympics, so I will attempt to work on a different project each day.
That's all I have for this update. Happy Stitching!
Great work on Gathering Honey. I am finding the backstitch instructions a nightmare! They are not clear at all. So I am making it up as I go. The instructions suggest different lines are used for the different colours but mine are all the same on the chart.
ReplyDeleteShame about the clouds, I would leave them in two strands, no-one will know, I won't tell!
Gathering Honey looks great. Lots of people seem to be doing this one.
ReplyDeleteWow great progress! I would leave the clouds and just finish them all as full cross. With blended threads it'll make them more blended
ReplyDeleteLovely work on all you projects =) I love the bee hive on the gathering honey sampler, such a beautiful design =)
ReplyDeleteGathering Honey looks great - I do like this design.
ReplyDeleteI stitched the Castle sampler many years ago, in fact it was one of my first finishes. I had a good look at mine and if you can bear it I think you should restitch the clouds as it does look really effective the way it was charted. It's a beautiful sampler and there is a lot of stitching in it but I'm sure you will enjoy it.
Gathering Honey is so nice looking! I do live your little row of turnips.
ReplyDeleteThe Castle Sampler is the first cross stitch piece I ever tried, which was a bit much, so I backed down and I should re-start it. Your piece is looking nice :) No help on whether you should restitch it or not, that's up to you, but the consolation is that at least half stitches shouldn't take quite as long?