Some kind of addiction

Instead of doing nescessary (!) things I couldn't help creating this lady that was waiting hidden in my stash. So here she is, waiting for her prince....

Maybe there's a medical term for this???? Though I think it's pretty healthy.

Berry Stitch

A very fast version of berry stitch - somehow time flies and in the evening I'm pretty astonished that another day is over (especially if it gets dark so early!)

There's so much left to do .....
But first of all the walk with my dogs, what else!!

Mermaid finished - Buttonhole Eyelet Flowers

It's cold and ugly outside - best way to spend time is picking up embroidery and get lost in fantasies. Here's the finished mermaid in her water block. She'll be surrounded by little crazy blocks in blue and green with lots of embroidery. I can use some samples of TAST and have to create additional ones. She looks good, doesn't she?

One more time I got carried away with stitching

TAST 2012 - Arrowhead stitch

Here's my sample for the stitch of this week - arrowhead.

Beside that I started a new face - this time a mermaid. This is how far I got - there's the Gimp class with Sharon I have to catch up with :-)

in progress

Once upon a time

Still bad weather outside so I spent most of the day with creating another face - and here it is. She somehow seems to come from a completely different time.

It's Tuesday and next thing is to take care of Arrowhead stitch for TAST 2012!

Ancestors instead of sisters

When my friend asked how I get the idea what the stumpwork face will look like I told him "it comes out of the fabric". I started off to create a sister for golden eyes but the result was rather old looking. Here they come:

She says she's a lady

Feeling pretty royal today

This is really a very funny experiment. Maybe when I'll have done more of them they will be united in a quilt with additional crazy blocks?
The weather outside was pretty nasty today - wet dirty dogs after the walk but inside I had a lot of sunshine being first place in Stitchin Fingers, have been chosen for the weekly highlight at  TAST 2012 and getting wonderful comments for my Portuguese border stitch sample. So if you ask me how my day was - just wonderful!!

Golden Eyes

This time I couldn't resist - I had to try it myself. After seeing all those lovely ladies in stumpwork I wanted to do one right away. First thought this morningg - today I'm going to create a stumpwork face. Here's what I ended up with:

Golden Eyes

She's a little pale, next time I'll use a darker fabric for the face. Buttonhole, drizzle stitch, bullion knots and portuguese border stitch and a little fancy yarn for the hair. The size is 10x8 cm.
Maybe she needs a sister?