....!! chocolate..out...threw out....chocolate....??! Bad Mam, Lisa, Lisa Bad Mam, LOL.
You'll never guess, nope you won't....bing bing BING! I've got the skirt finished!! *cartwheels, victory dance, if i had tulips in the garden i'd skip through em* its a downward ever decreasing slope from here *phew*
i've come up with a mantra to chant to myself while stitching, thanx to Sarah for providing me with it; it goes 'fish-HAED-sunflower-chrismas sampler-must not flounder-fish-HAED-sunflower-chrismas sampler must not flounder-fish-HAED-sunflower-chrismas sampler....'
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and she'll probably hit me for thaaat, heeheehee.
The only thing superglue sticks is..its own lid on.. Cats were considered gods in Ancient Times..they haven't forgotten this. "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing their's...."
haha, good pun Mabel! Haven't done much on it today, except scroll the frame up a bit, and some of the gold on the left hand border - nothing worth taking a photo of yet.
When (or rather if) the weather brightens up and dries up some, i'll take a photo of em outside in daylight, cos artificial light doesn't show up the mottling of the fabric very good; they look better 'in the flesh' as it were. Those yellow patches on this one are actually a lot brighter than they look on these photos.
The only thing superglue sticks is..its own lid on.. Cats were considered gods in Ancient Times..they haven't forgotten this. "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing their's...."
i love working with black material, but i was thinking of doing it on the darkest of this mottled stuff just to see if it works. I'll probably end up doing it on black anyways (this is the sort of pic i end up doing 4 times, all a bit different )
The only thing superglue sticks is..its own lid on.. Cats were considered gods in Ancient Times..they haven't forgotten this. "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing their's...."
I've just ordered Lilac Grove 32c lugana & Golden Turret 28c linen for autumn and chrismas, fingers crossed they have them in stock this time.
The only thing superglue sticks is..its own lid on.. Cats were considered gods in Ancient Times..they haven't forgotten this. "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing their's...."
Having seen how good Fire & Ice looked on black in Rose's magnificent effort, I'm not sure I'd dare use anything else! But as I was looking at the Sugar Maple fabrics I did think perhaps a very dark shimmering fabric might work -- like opalescent Abracadabra perhaps? Or one of the Silkweaver fabrics, on linen (because that usually works out darker), like Intrigue (this doesn't show the shimmer, but it is an opalescent); or Polstitches' Bewitched (you'll have to scroll down a bit).
ooOOoo i haven't heard of polstitches, thanx for that M, i'm getting a bit mottle mad aren't i, hehe. I'm a bit mad today as well, that bit of gold i did yesterday? had to come out again today; miscounted one thread of the fabric *ggrrr* my OH ran and hid when he saw the scowl on my face. Luckily it wasn't as big a chunk as the last one.
The only thing superglue sticks is..its own lid on.. Cats were considered gods in Ancient Times..they haven't forgotten this. "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing their's...."
Oh poor Steph. I had a project like that. It seemed I stitched it twice as everytime I got a bit done I came back and had to and do it over again. I made it through but it was called many bad names in the process.
As for the material for Fire and Ice. I like all of your choises but I just worry that to much background would take away from the actual stitching. Hey that is just me . I hope you find just the right material for how you want it to look.
If you are looking for some one to help change you, look in the mirror
Fantastic progress
I remember a while back that someone was able to look at the design they planned to stitch against different fabrics using computer stuff , I can remember that it was a bird, and it was on mottled fabric, but nothing else, it may help with deciding which of the fabrics to use.
You are right, Jilly, I think it is an option on one of the websites, you can choose a pattern and try it with different fabric as background - but I don't remember which one. Maybe someone else will know what it was.
Agi
"The world, as a colourful knot of threads, has turned into a memory, and now you cannot be sure whether it was real." (Géza Ottlik, Hungarian writer)
Yep i'm starting to lean towards just plain black for horsey, but...there used to be a damask aida, used it once years ago on something - i can't remember what - slightly shiny stuff. I'm gonna trawl about and see if its still made.
I'm not too *ggrrr* about the frog today, because....*drum roll* i got the two pieces of sugar maple for autumn and christmas this morning! I can crack on with em all now. Except at the moment i'm in self-banishment from the living room....the troops have got the playstation on). OH is amazed how quickly embroidery stash arrives, he's just said 'you only sent for yesterday!' (the rare occasion he buys something online he ends up having to suffer that 28 day delivery lark, har...har...)
I've cheated and gone for 28c for christmas, as she's not going to be hanging with the other four, when they eventually get framed; she'll go with the other christmas pictures i've done. (and i remembered last night i've got L & L's santa of the forest kicking about somewhere too *groans*)
The only thing superglue sticks is..its own lid on.. Cats were considered gods in Ancient Times..they haven't forgotten this. "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing their's...."
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mad today as well, that bit of gold i did yesterday? had to come out again today; miscounted one thread of the fabric *ggrrr* my OH ran and hid when he saw the scowl on my face. Luckily it wasn't as big a chunk as the last one. 
, I can remember that it was a bird, and it was on mottled fabric, but nothing else, it may help with deciding which of the fabrics to use.
Maybe someone else will know what it was.
