Current progress: Mini Citrine

I've had a little time to do some stitching over the weekend. I had my exam today, and it went really well! My last exam will be in april, so for now I feel I can relax a bit more. There's a holiday coming up in two weeks time, so hopefully I'll get a lot of stitching done then :-)

Here's the Mini Citrine as of tonight:

Mini Citrine, January 30, 2012

Some of these colours have really surprised me. I did not expect such strong colours at the bottom of her dress, but it'll probably make more sense as I make more progress on her.

I'll see if I can get some more work done on her during the week :-)
Happy stitching everyone!

January's IHSW results

So, even though I had sooo many things to do  this weekend, I actually think I did pretty good :) I worked on the Mini Citrine I got from my husband for my birthday last year:

Before

After

There were many confetti stitches at the bottom of the dress, so that took me most of the Sunday, but I did get a nice headstart to the dress itself :)

Looking forward to see everyone's progress over the next days!

- Cat.

IHSW!

Yeah, so I signed up for this weekend's IHSW. I will not, however, be able to do alot. As explained in my earlier post I have a lot of work.

Friday, my husband and I are going to celebrate our anniversary. It is now six years since we started dating, it also means we have been married for exactly three and a half years now :)

Saturday, my mother is throwing a birthday party - she is turning 65.

And Sunday I have planned on working for a bit and preparing a lesson on Macbeth for my students.

So all in all, I am not sure how much I will get done - but I will most certainly try!

Happy Hermiting Everyone.
- Cat.

Update on Citrine

So I've been working on the Mini Citrine for the last couple of days. The next couple of weeks will be dead busy with work since I am facing a sort of exam in less than two weeks. Basically all of my supervisors (four people) and an extra teacher from another school are going to observe me, while I am teaching. It may not sound as much, but I am telling you - EVERYTHING has to be perfect. Every little detail that might go wrong will be noted down. As you can tell - I am rather nerveous already.

But I decided to take a night off from work, and work on my cross-stitch instead. It usually helps me relax. But I will not get as much done over the next few weeks.

January 13

January 15

1st Page Finish - January 17

January 17

I really enjoy stitching this design. There are many different and beautiful colours, and not too many confetti stitches, so that's nice :)

And just a little reminder what she will look like in the end:

As you can see I have started with the bottom left corner. I am hoping to get a lot stitching done after my exam. Luckily, I have a week's koliday coming up in week 7 :)

- Cat.

I'm Ba-ack

...Or almost... I'm still dead busy with work. But here is something that I have been working on lately, it was a Christmas gift for my mother. The desgin is called "Spanish Beauty" and it's from Lanarte:

As of May 15 2011

As of December 9 2011

Hubby with finished Spanish Beauty :-)

I also received a fantastic birthday present from the hubby (my birthday was in November): Two new cross stitch charts from Heaven and Earth Design:

Mini Citrine

Mini Opal

The Citrine is my birthstone (November) and the opal is my husband's birthstone (October) - at least to some different webpages on the internet :) Nevertheless, the designs are gorgeous - especially the Opal one in my opinion.

I started the Mini Citrine almost as soon as I got it. Here is my current progress:

Mini Citrine as of January 9 2012

I have decided to put Envy on hold for a bit. I feel the project is a wee bit too big for my taste, and the stitches are very small compared to what I usually stitch. So I think I will continue with the Citrine for a while :-)

- Cat.