~mj~ of The Sampler Stitcher kindly gave me this award, which was very nice of her. Yet another to add to the list! I just can't think straight at the mo to pass it on, but you never know, one day I might just do it!!
Oooof! What a busy week! Not got as much done as I wanted cushion-wise, but I have done the first part of the border on the cushion and started the 2nd. Will update with photo on Monday afternoon as we're away until Sunday night now. Hope to get something more done in the evenings over the weekend. The project is 'due' next week, but I fear it will be late...
But only a very little! As I've been recovering from some odd virus over the weekend, I haven't really been up to stitching much, so I've only done the second row of Kloster blocks in the big central diamond, the 4 eyelets in the smaller diamonds and then finished off the piece of #5 pearl cotton I'd been using by starting on some of the inner line of the border work. Anyway, I think I'm free of the bug now, just totally exhasuted, so I'll have to be careful, but can still do stuff. I've set my mobile phone alarm for 10pm every day as a 'Go to bed' reminder!!
Thought I'd just post what I'd done (during the first 2 days' work, whilst I've also still been ill and not able to work on it for very long at any one time) on the current hardanger cushion/pillow project. This is the central diamond. There are some coloured bits to do as well, but I need to do a discreet colour match with a certain sofa, hopefully this evening, so that I can decide which thread to use for best results - I think the terracotta one that came with the kit will be too dark. Also, I've decided to do the leaf elements in green, not cream, to warm the whole thing up a bit and add a splash more colour. Hope to have more to show on Monday when you'll be able to see the weekend's work. Seems to work well posting on Mondays and Thursdays at the mo.
Here's the work I did over the weekend on the 'Silver Frost' piece. I've started just above the middle and worked up a bit. The top band here, band 8, took me about 100 minutes to do and there's still about half the work left on it! (I know that as it took the entire of watching a 103 minute film to do!!!!) Don't know how much more of it I'll get done in the immediate future because:
I finally cancelled my order with the ONS who have kept me waiting for over 2 months for my hardanger supplies. I won't say who they are in case there's some serious reason for their neglect, (like the lady who runs it has died etc), but I doubt I'll be shopping there again! I got this great cushion kit instead from Nordic Needlecraft in Scotland. They aren't the cheapest by a long stretch, but their customer service is second to none and I can't recommend them highly enough for that. The colours are precisely what I was looking for and the hardanger fabric included is quite a bit softer than I'd feared. Oslo would have been a little nicer, but this will do just nicely and will soften a little through washing and also working on, even though I'll be using my great big, unwieldy 17" R&R frame!!! Anyway, this piece is needed in about 2 weeks, whereas the 'Silver Frost' isn't wanted until late next month. There is another piece to do in between as well, (which also got held up by the ONS not responding), but I've just ordered those threads too and should be able to get that done OK as well. Hardanger works up quickly - mercifully!
