Heathwitch’s Stitchcraft

Autumn — continued…

I’ve been working some more on Vervaco’s Autumn this week. I’m a bit further on compared to the last time I posted an update about this WIP…

Excuse the wonkiness of the scan :p

I’m really liking the way this is coming together, and I’m pleasantly surprised by how addictive a project this one actually is. I originally thought that I’d get bored with all the different browns, but that’s not so. If anything, I like the way all the shades are coming together nicely to create a lovely subtle texture. :-)

Buzz, Buzz, Finished!

Further to my last post, I managed to find a bit of time this afternoon to sit down with my little Bumblebee WIP — and finished him :-)

Here he is just before I started the backstitch:

Now I bitch and moan a lot about backstitch, primarily because it’s so fiddly, but I really do love it for the amount of detail it adds to a design. Look, he is all finished:

In all, he took me about three-and-three-quarter hours, which isn’t too bad I don’t think — nice and quick. Might have been quicker still had I not forgotten how to stitch the French knots for his pupils. X-| … But he’s so cute, I think I’ll forgive him!

Another WIP…

Last night I found another small freebie kit from a magazine (Cross Stitch Crazy #7, May 2000), and, as it’s only tiny (c.5cm x 5cm), I decided to quickly stitch it for a respite from Vervaco’s Autumn.

In the end, I only managed to stitch for about two hours, but the end is in sight:

All that I need to do now is his head and tail, and the backstitch. He’s certainly a nice, quick cutie :)

“Bless This House” and “Autumn”

Tonight I found an old WIP and decided to finish it. As it’s a tiny piece (approx. 6cm x 6cm) and all I needed to do was the border, and add my initials and the date, so it didn’t take too long. It was originally a kit from an old (1999) magazine — and the good news is that I found the mount for it, too! So at some point I’ll be looking at framing/hanging it. Now I wish I had a nice hallway or something … :p

Then I continued with Vervaco’s Autumn. For those following the status of this, I decided to work to the right. Excuse the scan, it’s not that brilliant:

I could quite easily continue this into the night… But I’m sleepy and need to get some rest, so it’ll have to wait until tomorrow.

Current WIP…

I suddenly realised that I have not posted anything about my current WIP since completing the Lughnasadh square of the sabbats wallhanging.

Well, before I start on the Mabon square (a basket of harvest vegetables), I decided to take a break from sabbats and work on another WIP I’ve had on the go for some time. I started Vervaco’s Autumn last year, but didn’t get very far — only a few stitches! — so I was drawn to continue with it.

Autumn is one of a set of four (see Spring, Summer and Winter), the rest of which I’m hoping to purchase at some point in the future, to enable me to complete the set.

Anyway… I’ve lost count of how many hours I’ve spent on this so far — it’s at least ten, possibly twelve, but here’s where I’m currently at:

I’m actually quite enjoying this piece… Now all I need to determine is which direction to go in now — left, right, up or down. *grins* But one thing I really like about it is — it has no backstitch! And that’s a good thing, because I’m terribly slow when it comes to backstitch…