IHSW

Ok so The Dreamer is finished, so the question was what now. I thought I would do some work on Celtic Spring by Lavender & Lace. I started this one last year but did very little work on it . I only had Saturday to Hermit, as I was out visiting on Sunday so here is some progress on her.

L & L - Celtic Spring

I really like the Celtic Ladies set by Lavender and Lace and hopefully I will manage to get the whole set of five done. Though where I would put them I have no idea!

I also have been doing a little bit on HAED Fairy with Butterfly Mask, have been working away at page 2 and hoping to get a page finish fairly soon.

HAED - QS Fairy with Butterfly Mask

Hope everyone had a good weekend and have a great week.

WOOHOO

Finally, after working on this on and off for the last 10 years she is done. I am so happy. Now she just needs to be washed, ironed and framed. I want to get this professionally framed so will need to see the cost and things.

Here she is:

Mirabilia - The Dreamer Completed

She is stitched on what I think is a 16ct light pink Aida fabric, I'm not too sure. Using all DMC thread and Mill Hill beads where necessary.

This was the first chart I attempted with beading but I think they look really beautiful. A total of 59,200 stitches.

Am so delighted to have her done. This is now one of my 2012 goals done. Yipee!

So excited

Ok I know I should really just wait until this is fully done but I'm just so excited and happy to be nearly there, I just had to share this with all of you.

The Dreamer by Mirabilia is almost finished. Just a little cluster of flowers and a small amount of back stitching left and she will be completed.

I figured out why I was having such a hard time with this one. I was getting stressed about finishing it. It was no longer about stitching but about getting it finished after all this time. I was getting so stressed about it that it sucked all the enjoyment out of stitching it, so yesterday I decided that I would just enjoy laying down the stitches and just not be concerned about getting it finished. What do you know I ended up getting more done in it.

So here she is, so close to the finish:

Mirabilia - The Dreamer

The picture of the completed piece will be better, I promise. I find it difficult to get a good photo of this as it is quite big and also my house doesn't get a huge amount of natural light.

IHSW this weekend

Well the third weekend of the month has rolled around again and I had hoped to sequester myself away in my little room for the weekend and maybe, just maybe get The Dreamer finished once and for all.

Unfortunately it's not to be. It turns out I have a huge amount of college and career (such as it is) work to try and get done. Also a friend if mine is home from abroad so will be meeting him on Sunday. So will do my very best to get some hermitting in but can't make any promises.

Would be DELIGHTED if I could finish The Dreamer, finish my current mini project and maybe get page 4 outline of Oliana done. Those are my goals we will how many, if any I can complete.

Details of IHSW can be found HERE

Hope everyone has a great hermit weekend!

The Dreamer Progress

I have been getting some work done on Mirabilia The Dreamer. It is one of my 2012 goals to get this one done. I have just been working on the top piece of the boarder. I really hope I can get this one done this year. I like how this is starting to look.

The Dreamer

I think the swirls are really pretty. Hopefully will get this boarder piece of the chart finished in the next few days.