January 2023 first post

 Hello stitchers! 

Welcome to my first post of the new year!

Let's start with SQ, that's got some well deserved attention and love in the last few days of 2022.
I started this cross stitch project the 1st of January, 2017 and it has a long way to go before it will be finished, but that's not so important at the moment since i always enjoy stitching the Queen, never feeling the burn out.
Let's only hope that soon she will be finished, washed, ironed and then framed and hung on the wall.
What follows is the most recent pic I took of this colorful wip, that's filling with varing pink and red hues. 

For WWAVMC, let's just say that, while SQ was out of the drawer, the main focus project of the last year was a bit overlooked on. Don't worry! The stitching will be finished hopefully in a short span of time. I'm assuming at worst the first days of the coming February.

I completed more than 243000 stitches and completed 141 colors out of 234. Not bad, if i say so myself...

Last but not least, i got happy mail! I oredered and present myself the 35 skeins of the "newest" colors that DMC put on the market in 2017. I got the package from a great deal on AliExpress, amd i'm not scared to say, or write, it.
The colors are lush and shiny and match the originals; the softness of the skeins are incomparable to those of the French brand. I'm quite pleased with what i received.
Have a look at these beauties: 

Well, that's all for now!

                            See you soon, 

October small update.

 Hello stitchers!

I'll be short with this update.
I'm here today to show you my most recent pic of my wip.

As usual, it's Window With A View MC that gets the spotlight.

I really, really like how the water reflects the trees and the castle... The swan and duck too! Near the seagull (i think it's one of them) there's a brown animal... What do you think it is? A cat? A big one? 

Oh! I've finished the 8th color of the project. Many more colors are still new on the bobbins, waiting impatiently to be used. I don't know if i'll finish some other color while stitching the current diagonal because i forgot to search the pattern for the little-numbered colors before starting it... It will be a surprise!



What are your thoughts and your stitchy plans? Let me know!

                                See you soon, 

Start of September update.

Hello stitchers, how have you ben this summer?
Was it strange like the last one?

I've got some free time to dedicate at my main focus project, WWAVMC.

In the last days a diagonal has been completely stitched.
The book on the windowsill is taking shape as more colors were added. Aren't the pages cute?
And then I've started another diagonal right away, finishing the boat at the centre of the picture.
Then i was on a roll and had a good amount of stittches done in a couple of days. I'm amazed at what i accomplished despite the confetti stitching slowing me down a bit. I have a love/hate relationship with those little crosses representing the flowers but when i look  at the pics i take, i keep liking them more and more. 

I'll show you some pics now...

I can't wait to see more of the design coming to life, i need to speed up my pace and getting some good stitching done in the upcoming weeks. 


Lastly, Spiders Queen also came back out and were added some colors on it.
It may looks like not much was done, but it was only one stitching session and a progress, no matter how small is better than nothing.

I don't have other stitchy plans at the moment in regards of the Autumn-Fall/Winter season. What about you?

As aslways, take care of yourselves.
                                                   

                                                                  See you soon,

    

 

End of June.

Hello stitchers!

I'm back with another update... Yes, so soon since the last because i don't know when i'll be able to post again in the upcoming month.

I'm going to show you the progress on WWAVMC.

Here there's the wip with a finished diagonal.

I've reached 151.030 crosses on this wip and i still have today to add some other crosses and colors.

If you look closesly, you can see the slope of terrain that enclose the water stream. I can't wait to stitch it. 

That's all for today. 


I hope to see you soon, until then take care, everyone!

Bits of progress.

 Hello stitchers!

I'm here today to show you my overall progress for the month of March.
I stitched a bit less than what i would have liked, but there is still some more crosses than there were before, so it's alright.

Le's start once again with WWAVMC, my main focus project that is still screaming at me for attention. 

I stitched 300 crosses on seven diagonals going right because i felt i needed a change from all the greens, grays, browns and pinks. I took this little detour from the classic diagonals and was fully immersed in a world of colorful flowers (it's confetti filled but the beauty of the result was so worth it, in my opinion). 

In the pic above it was the end of last month, a week later I'm here, with another diagonal completed and a new one started:

As for Spiders Queen I've got nothing much to show, but a very small progress pic.

Added some of oranges for the hair, pink and dark colors to fill the empty spaces in the mask.




Do you have stitchy plans for this Sring?

STAY safe out there!

                                                        I'll see you soon,  

First post of the new year.

 Hello stitchers!

Here I am today to present you the newest update on my, once again, stitchy project.

Last week i reached the halfay pont on WWAVMC, but I've got to post about it only now. Here's the pic of the milestone. I was proud of myself, but i know that completion is still far away. 

I think that in the next update we will se a bit more colors done and more of the green scenery behind/through the window glass.


What did you accomplished this January? I'm curious to know, let me now in the comments!


As always: take care, STAY safe, keep stitching and...

See you soon,  

The Queen is back.

Hello stitchers!

After completing another diagonal on wwawmc, i've decided that it was time to bring backin rotation Spiders Queen.
In the last couple of days i've worked on both wips and i'm happy with how they are coming up.

Eight months has come and gone since the last time i worked on SQ, it was a little "strange" switching from working full corsses to tent half stitches. It's like in the meantime i've lost the habit to tent stitch so i'm not so quick as i would like, but the progress so far is making the process still enjoyable, thus i'm not complaining too much.
I'm filling all the white spaces left and working on adding the colors needed on the second eye.

It's nice seeing some "0" on Pattern Keeper for the first time!


Soon it will be the 5ooth day on working on wwavmc and even though the end is far away, i'm still hoping for a near future finish, (a couple years from now will be good, from my point of view).
After completing the last diagonal i've started the next right away. I still can't put wwavmc away.

Both projects now are at just over 37%, it' interesting.
I'll try to stitch on both my big haed wips, alternating them... If only the want for a quick, nice finish is tormenting my thoughts since last week. Let's hope i can stick to my own rules!

                                               See you soon,       

Tips.

Hello stitchers!

We've already seen many pictures of my current wips and i thought, for this time, that i'll mention the technique i've used so far for some of them: the parking method.

Well, i'll admit: this method of stitching had me scared at first, with all that threads hanging down i thought "that's something impossible, those are all gonna be a giant tangled mess, i'll never use it, i'll do only cross country". I was so wrong! 
Once understood the correct way to do so, it very easy to use it to simplify the process of moving through the stitching, avoiding the constant need to end and start a new thread for crosses of the same color that may be near the one already stitched.
For pattern with many, many color changes (also known as confetti stitches) the use of this method will prove itself handy.

The perfect way to understand this fabulous techinque is to go grab a copy of a well written guide that will explain perfetcly how to move the first steps towards the use of the parking method.

Here there's the English version and here there's the Italian one. It comes as a PDF file and, differently from videos and such, it's perfect to read when you're off-line.

In the guide you will find some other useful tips and tricks that will make everything easier making it a perfect gift for someone that may be intimidited to start on such a long journey as it's stitching big patterns.
I think that every stitcher needs it, because you never stop learning.

Let me know how you like it.

                                                                                See you soon,