First post.

Here I am!
This is my first Blogger post.

My name is Irene and I'm from Italy.


Here you will mainly find the progress on my cross stitch projects.

Right now I'm working on HAED's Leo and Night Moves.

I fell in love with that site, there are so many charts of many many artist to chose from! The only downside to life, is that's so little time to stitch and sometimes it's hard to keep away from browsing through those beauties and not buy everything i have on my ever-growing wishlist.


Less talk now, i'll let some photos do the talk...

Leo

(450x570, 90 colours)

The artist that painted "Leo" is Josephine Wall and this chart is part of her collection of the Zodiac Signgs.

Total stitches count: 256500.

I've started working on Leo in the last days of November 2013, more specifically it was the 20th.
It's being stitched 1x1 full crosses on 25ct. white Lugana.

The firs 100+ crosses done.

From that day onward it was (and still is) a nice journey stitch after stitch.

Night Moves

(450x222, 90 colours)

Painted by Jim Warren.

Total stitches count: 99900.

 This pattern, brough along with Leo, was my choice of the 2016 challenge#2 over the NEW HAED Facebook group.
Stitched 2x1 tent (continental technique) stitches on 25ct. white Lugana.

I still haven't finished the challenge as i don't have three (shame on me!) colours.

Usually i follow the pattern and instructions carefully, but for this time i've chose to forego the use of Kreinik floss and instead i've decided to stitch the sparkly bits with the white pearl pb10 also know as the #4 Petite Treasure Braid produced and sold by Rainbow Gallery.

I love how it captures the light showing off its many reflections and i have to find a way to show that in my future photos.

Challenge#2 progress so far:

25ct. white Lugana

Well, that's all for now. 

 See you soon,