IHSW or International Hermit and Stitch Weekend always starts on the third Friday of the month. It's a chance to lock yourself away and focus on your stitching for the weekend. You can take part on your blog or via the Facebook page - IHSW on Facebook.
I had Friday off work this week so I decided to complete my 7 day rotation on Mirabilia's Fairy Idyll and get her to here:
This is such an enjoyable piece to stitch, you can see the material of the dress forming as you stitch. Someone did a conversion and said there are 9 shades of cream/yellow in the dress! I haven't used the darkest shades yet.
On Saturday I moved on to my Bothy Threads 12 Days of Christmas design. My goal is 3 blocks on this for the year and there's only 4 months to stitch (not stitching Christmas in Dark October!) so I need to get cracking.
I decided to stitch all the Olive Green background for Day 2 first and here is where I finished:
Our Summer SAL is coming along nicely, only one band and the beads to go. This is Follow the Needle by Just Nan:
Finally the next IHSW will be 17th - 19th September (my Birthday weekend) so make sure you note the date in your diary or come and join us in the Facebook Group - IHSW on Facebook. If you don't do Facebook then you can check in here by leaving a comment on my post.
7 comments:
Love the Just Nan piece. And your birthday is next month?! Hope you are planning something special!
Your lady is looking wonderful on that beautiful material .
Another display of your beautiful work Jo .
Have a fun week.
So much work for that sleeve!! I can't imagine having the patience to change thread colors so often. She is going to be a stunner! Love the Just Nan stitch. The first of the 12 days is so beautiful, quite a challenging goal to get 3 done.
Super stitching, Jo. I had that many different greens on a piece that I stitched a while back, about drove me nuts! Good job sticking to your plans.
Beautiful pieces!
I've been gone forever. I missed my blog friends though and had to stop by and see what a few have been up to. So nice to see your beautiful stitching. I hope to get a post up soon to catch up. Nice to see ya again friend. Take care.
Lovely progress! All these creams and yellows are shading up so nicely, and the 12 Days project is super pretty.
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