Anything Goes Band Sampler

I took a class at the June 1 meeting of my EGA chapter -- Constellation, in MD, for anyone who may be interested. I've never done this kind of needlepoint before (although some of the stitches are familiar), and I've already gone off the rails, in terms of following the pattern, but hey, what can you do? The original project was a yardstick sleeve, but I'm decided mine's going to be the top band of a totebag.... My base fabric is 18ct khaki canvas.



Criss-cross Hungarian stitch in Caron Collection Watercolors 'Nefertiti #008'

I've done the border piece and started on the next section:



Border = bundled faggot stitch in #5 DMC Perle cotton #676 and #420 and Band #2 = Milanese stitch in #5 DMC Perle cotton #4045 and #4210

Oi. I really need to update this more often. I have been stitching, but my time has been severely limited this semester -- two upper level history classes and a studio art class make for a very busy Heather.

So...what have I been doing? Well -- I've been stitching a couple of different things; here are a few finishes (since July of 2008, which is the last time I updated this blog.)

The Tardis:

I used a modified filet crochet pattern (found here, by meredee) and stitched with DMC 825 and DMC glow-in-the-dark floss on 14ct. black aida. (I have plans to do meredee's Adipose Baby and Dalek as well, using more glow-in-the-dark floss and some metallics)

Shakespeare (wedding gift)

This quote is from Love's Labours Lost by William Shakespeare; its a modified bookmark - I pushed some of the words closer together, and changed the Shakespeare attribution to the bride and groom's names. Stitched with DMC linen floss on 28ct. linen -- I both love and hate the linen floss: it looks fantastic, but shreds like crazy!

SHEEP!

Lanarte kit on 28ct. linen; I ran out of *two* colors, and broke *three* needles -- a record for me, especially since this is only 6x6!

My seemingly-eternal WIPs are pillowcases:

Mary Englebreit "Good Night" (1.5 down, .5 to go!)


Fern and Butterfly (1.25 down, .75 to go!)