Pirates and Dragons

I have some work in progress pictures to share with you all.
First up my Pirate piece. This has still mostly been stitched in the car, at lunch and a little at home while watching playoff hockey. I was so happy to get all the letters done and now just have the skull on top!



And further progress on the Judgement Dragons.
It may not seem like much, but it's almost three nights worth of work, which is alot of time. This one just progresses slowly.


Coming up: The draw for my giveaway should be posted tomorrow. And more WIP pictures for me over the next week or so.

Thanks for visiting and your comments are always appreciated!

Papillon SAL Part 2 Complete (and a new start)

I do hope you all had a great weekend! Our was, as forecasted, cold, snowy and gross. So we did stay inside and watch Pixar movies. We found the Pizza truck that appears in each movie in all the Pixar movies except The Incredibles. So we will have to watch that one again (oh and Ratatouille because we don't have that one). So we figured that 6 for 7 was pretty good!
We also were at a concert last night, for Rise Against... so I am really tired today! But that is okay because at least it's sunny again!

I did get some exciting stitching done.
I completed the second part of the Papillon SAL. I am still behind on this one as part
4 will be released soon. But such is life I suppose. The colours in this photo are completely off as it's stitched on brown fabric. But alas that is how the photos turned out. Here is how part 2 stitched up:

I had to frog out the purple side once which was annoying but I'm quite pleased that it still looks okay even after frogging alot of stitches.

I also got the eye of the ducky in! So it is almost starting to look like something other than yellow blob. Here is a progress picture:


And I had a new start... it's from the Just Cross Stitch preview magazine by Sharon Crescent called Trimming the Tree. Stitched on 32 ct mushroom evenweave. This ornament if for an exchange on my Yahoo ILCS group. We are sending the ornaments all to one person who will then randomly send us one as stitched by someone else. Kinda neat! It has to be in the moderators hands for July 22 (I think) but I'm sure I will be able to make this deadline.
I changed the green colour from the light blue/green to Desert Mesquite from Crescent Colours, the red berries are in Cresent Colours Wild Berries and the other two are just DMC. I still have to figure out how to finish this as well but figure stitching comes first.
Here is a picture of what it will look like:


And here is my progress picture:


Coming up: My giveaway is being extended until Thursday as I just won't have time likely to draw and deal with it before then. So let anyone know that wants to be entered, or if you haven't entered yet just post a comment on the giveaway #2 post and you are entered. It's that easy!
I am hoping to get at least one good night on Judgement in this week and have a new WIP picture posted later this week. And of course continuing on my other WIP.

Thanks for visiting and happy stitching!

A Night of Stitching

So I ventured for the first time to a stitching night that my LNS holds on Thursdays. I usually can't attend this night b/c my B/F has the car. But as he was at a show last night I stole the car and went to the store! It was fun to sit around and meet some new people, talk about stitching, movies and other things.
I stitched on the rubber ducky some before we played a game called Bead Table, which is essentially an elaborate version of bingo! It was very fun. (and the winner wins some beads!).
I also picked up some hand-dyed threads for my christmas ornament for the exchange on my yahoo ILCS group. Will be starting that one maybe on the weekend.

I don't have any progress pics as the b/f didn't get home until after midnight, so I was already in bed, and after my dismal failure with photos the other day I didn't want to try again.
Though I did get some stitching on judgement done the other night which is good and I will have some updates on WIP after the weekend for sure.

We are planning on having a Pixar marathon weekend (we just learned that the pizza truck makes an appearance in all their movies, so we've decided it would be fun to watch them and look for it!). We are doing this mostly because it's cold, rainy and gross here all according to the forecast for today, tomorrow and sunday. (they are even expecting snow! gross! It's June!)

Coming up: More WIP pictures, maybe a start for my christmas ornament exchange, and don't forget the draw for my giveaway, post a comment on the post below this one to enter!

Hope everyone has a great weekend