Border Finished- Japanese Garden-WOOHOO

Guess what?? I finally finished the outer border on Japanese Garden.  It took all year to finish it I think.  Although I love the look of all the Jessica stitches, they really gave me trouble.   They were hard to place properly.  I have some I need to frog out and redo but I will do that at the end of all the stitching.   I am so glad to move onto the next part.  I am LOVING this piece, both the look and the stitching it, but it does get repetitive sometimes.

So here it is.   I also included a few photos of different parts of the entire piece close up. It is so large that you can't see details when I show the entire piece.

So the particulars for anyone new to this blog or anyone interested.  Stitched on 28 ct. cashel linen on a dark blue from picture this plus.  I just can't remember what the color was called, midnight something maybe.   The NPI silks have been converted to HDF silk.  All the beading I will do at the end... Which is getting closer.

Next up the crane medallion outlines.  I need printer ink so I can only do the outlines, I need to blow up the PDF to print cranes to see them (they are over 1). So I can only work on what I have in the current printouts I have.   Medallion outlines, then onto the bridges and bamboo.

Crabby Month 1

I decided to do Raise The Roof Designs Crabby all Year individually.  My plan is to put several pieces in frames above the calendar page for each month.   January was an easy month to stitch. It didn't take much time at all. It was one of my Crazy January Challenge pieces, so it was started.  The only part I didn't like was all the white. Boring.   It only took a few days of stitching to get this done.  I love the birds on it.  I may move that top bird I'm not sure if I like it there. 

I am still looking for fabric to finish Joy Love Peace.   I hope to get to Hancock fabric this week to see what they have.   Can you believe I have No Christmas Fabric?

A Finish

I had another finish today.  I'm pleased with how it turned out, though if I stitch it again I will change one of the colors.  I thought about changing it, but just didn't want to frog what I had already done.

Joy Love Peace- CCN-Mystery pink fabric, 2x2

It was really hard to get a decent photo of this.  The fabby is actually a pale pink, and you can't really see them but there are white birds at the top by the star and two snowflakes below the birds.  If I stitched it again, I would change the mauve, to a more pink, or perhaps a purple or blue. Still it was a quick and fun stitch.

I was originally going to stitch it as an ornament, but it is a bit big for that, so I'm not sure how I will finish it.  I may do an ornament finish but hang it on the wall instead of the tree.

This was also one of my Crazy January challenge pieces as well as a WIPocalypse. 

Hubby Update-OT

Thanks everyone for the prayers and thoughts on my recent post about hubby.  I am happy to say hubby is home from the hospital.   What we thought was going to be a routine appendectomy- turned into a serious nearly 4 hour operation where they removed dead bowel and ruptured cecum and appendix.  Had he not ended up at that dr. that day- he would have likely died.  

So he is home from the hospital after an 8 day stay.   That was a week ago.   He is doing okay.  Can't lift anything, is on heavy pain meds.  His incision was healing too fast so the surgeon had to reopen it this past thursday so it can finish draining.  Hubby is not happy about it and is as a result rather grumpy.

I'm still so happy he is just alive and here that I find it hard to get too upset with his grumpies (though it does get a bit easier every day-lol)

Needless to say I haven't gotten much stitching done recently.  I did pull out something just today and stitched a bit. 

WIPocalypse 11

Well I didn't get much stitching done this past month-  My husband had emergency surgery and was in the hospital for 8 days.  He nearly died, and I have been so busy that stitching just hasn't happened.  But here is what I did get done-

Fire Goddess-