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Happy New Year.

Last year I recall finishing a few pieces (Fall Fairy, Vincent Motorcycle, Poppy Geese, Wild Flower Meadow Butterflies, Nori, Harvest Sampler, No Winter, Cow Parsley, TW Spring Fariy and the last piece I finished was TW Winter Fairy).

This year I hope to complete the final 2 fairies in the season set and if I am good add the other two TW designed.

Jo

P.S. others are work in progress: HAED Seasons, TW Peacock Tapestry, Rome, Bothy Threads Rome,

Looking forward to seeing your updates and finishes!

Hi Mabel pleased you are following along.

TW Fairies: I completed Spring and Winter last year, a quick reminder of them:



And just before new year I started on the Autumn Fairy. Because of problems accessing the forum I posted progress on this piece over on my 2023 thread so time to move it to its correct place:



I had a bit of frustration when I found I was missing one of the thread colours but thankfully the suppliers on Fleabay post them very quick and it arrived 2 days later.

On TWs own website, when it was available, identified a number of errors on the charts but promised that the charts in the booklet had less errors. It claims that the symbols square with a diagonal line from bottom left to top right should be 3787 was missing from the list of colours but so far I have not found it on the chart.

Today my Autumn Fairy:



We have a few really cold days coming so it might be nice to stay in front of the nice warm log fire stitching .

Jo

i love seeing the different colour palettes for these fairies !

Having finished the two leaves and the second wing I started work on the lower apple:



With all the "almost the same colour" shades in the apple I found it difficult to identify the edge of the round border and the part of the apple I was counting into so I am putting the outlining on the circular border and I'll do the outer one while I am at it. You should be able to see the difference on the bottom left on the outer square border where I am still outlining and next will go up the left side.

Jo

They are beautiful.

I had done 3 of a set of season horses. I think they were TW.

I love all the different colors for the fairies and I am so impressed with how quickly you stitch them!

Thank you Roland and Kittyz,

I have kits for two out of the four carousel season horses. I think my friend gave them to me with the patterns for the last two as part of his mum's collection

It's been cold this week so a bit of stitching in front of the log fire is always a nice thing to do:



I nearly have the first apple (? not convinced, but artistic license ) done. I must remember to start the backstitching, it can get rather tedious if that is all there is to go.

Jo

Sounds like a good idea, loads of backstitch right at the end is very dispiriting!

Another Apple and a few leaves:



I am now heading down to do her dress and the apple she is sitting on. I still am avoiding the backstitching but really I must get on with it

Jo

You'll thank yourself later if you get on with the backstitching!

looking lovely!

I think she’s gong to be beautiful! And look at those colors!!!

A bit more progress:



Jo

Dratted back stitch does make such a difference in definition, doesn't it. Looking excellent!

I've had enough of all the confetti stitches/backstitching on her dress and have moved on to doing the border:



I think I have the rhythm of stitching the border now so I can sequential stitch with the three colours. But the sun is out and there is lots of gardening that needs doing.

Jo

The backstitch really makes her skirt flow!

This is more and more beautiful each time I see an update!

Sorry I thought I posted this yesterday before I scrolled the piece up but better late than never:



Still heading round the border and am now going down the two sides.

In between I have been filling in some of the "holes" in her wings. So far I have found two colour pairings that had 2 or less stitches, buying four skeins of thread for 3 stitches

Jo

Ouch. I wonder how designers can think that one or two stitches of another colour could possibly make that much difference in a design where so much else is going on?