Dragon Rambles

Ok, while I haven’t done much stitching in the last 12-15 months, I do have some progress. There were some days where I just went on strike and did some stitching – mostly weekends or evenings. And of course, after I submitted my PhD I was able to get a bit more time in (when I wasn’t sleeping or looking and applying for jobs). So on with the piccies….

First we have Mystery X and Cirques. Managed to get Part 2 finished just last week on the former. And I went back and put the beads and crystals in for parts 1 and 2. Even made a start on Part 3 and got a good chunk of it’s beads in too. I’m all beaded out now though, so I won’t be picking it up again for a few more weeks.

The colours aren’t too good in the pic for cirques, but at least you can see how much I’ve done and have a small idea of colours. Although, the fabric is not actually blue.

Next some HAED progress. There’s a new start this year (Drac’s Leaf) and more progress on Stella. I’ve finally reached her face.

And I’ve been buying some silks. So now I want to start Blackstone. So what colours to do. I tried to take some pics of different floss tosses, but most of the scans and photos didn’t really give a good idea of the colours. I bought mottled magpie tears (from Vikki Clayton) thinking it would be a good one (and 36ct too which is good), but it just wasn’t right. So I went through my stash looking at other colours. Here are a couple of them.

The green I’m using is Vikki’s Dragon Opal (jadeite and black) and the other is a velvet midnight/ultraviolet mix that I had her dye for me. Originally I was thinking of more of a grey blue background. The ones above are PTP pansy (left) which is obviously more purple and grey and the one on the right more green and grey/brown (not sure it’s name count or anything). Of course, the stitching show is coming up, I could always take my spools to see the gals from Stitches and Spice and see if they have some ideas.

Here it is finally, my section on Sue’s RR. I haven’t been doing much stitching and most of the time I had was spent on this RR section. Since I have finished I have been able to pick up Stella again, so next time I post there will be piccies of Stella and Hermit.

After 11 months of only stitching on the RR, I finally started stitching again just before xmas. Of course since then I have done some on one I already had going and started 3 more So time to share some pics.

The first is Stella. I have missed stitching on her and loved picking her back up again. I was pleased with the amount I managed to do over the xmas break. Before I stopped work on her, the top row of pages had been done and about 500 stitches had been done on the next row.

Now for the new starts. I was given Hermit and the threads from Vicky for xmas. So of course on xmas day I started him. And the the very naughty Sue gave me Pumpkin Pixie and all threads and fabbie, so I started her over the New Year weekend for the new start SAL. Managed to get a little more done on the second weekend SAL, but only a few hours. So here is the progress to date.

And lastly, I started Cirques on Country Stitch Wisteria and using Waterlilies Elderberry Wine. The pics aren’t the best as I took them last night. Should have waited until today, but I was hoping to get this posted last night. Of course, that was before my internet connection went haywire. So there are my pics. I’m looking forward to stitching on them again, so I had better hurry up and finish my section on Sue’s RR