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Seahorse and Shells

seahorse and shells

This was a very quick project. I bought the kit Tuesday afternoon at Michaels, stitched on it for an hour on Tuesday night and then finished up the stitching Wednesday night. I completed it today by making the cording, cutting out the paper, and piecing it together. Spencer helped me make the cording. Part of making it consists of taping it to a desk or table and twirling it. Spencer was fascinated by the twirling string and kept jumping at it. The only thing I didn’t like about this project was that the pieces of glass were uneven and it was a pain wrapping the cording around the glass. It hangs kind of unevenly too (I put it on my wall already). It still looks really pretty though.

Stitching that was a nice break from working on the owl. The owl doesn’t have many pretty colors. I had missed stitching beach and ocean related things as well.

owl

owl cross-stitch

I finished the owl section of the [cross-stitch] last night. Now on to the background.

the owl

Tonight I should be finishing up the owl in the [cross-stitch] I’m making for my mom. After that I have to do the background which consists mainly of half cross-stitch. It’s rather interesting…I had been saying for awhile now that I wanted to get the owl finished by March but I wasn’t on any sort of schedule. And it just happens that I’ll be finishing on the second to last day of February.
I really want to get this finished so I can get back to working on cross-stitches for myself, as selfish as that may sound. I’ve been dying for months to work on Dragon Dreams Not Forgotten but I had the Christmas Mystery and then the owl. Whenever I get into my cross-stitch bag for something I see all the fun threads for Not Forgotten and get so excited to work on it again.

butterfly xstitch

I finished a [cross-stitch] today: Butterflies on Nine-Patches.

butterfly cross-stitch

cmsal

I finished the CMSAL today. I really liked how it turned out. I finished it two days before the finish date too. I’ll need to get a frame for it sometime after Christmas.

cmsal

part 2

I finished Part 2 of the Christmas Mystery Stitch-A-Long last night. I recieved Part 3 today, but won’t get to work on it till tomorrow. Part 3 is really beautiful. I can’t wait to stitch it.

part 2