It's HAED voting time!

Alright folks it's that time again, time to choose what will be my free HAED chart for April!

A brush up for those that are not aware, I won Michele and Bob's "Find Bob" contest back in January and won one free HAED chart every month for 2012. And it's been fun not knowing exactly which would be the one I'd get! So here we are again. This month's choices... (I have not repeat any choices yet, I will likely later on in the year).

Thanks for voting and I look forward to seeing what wins. Oh right... voting will close May 1 at 5pm MST (I know a day late for April but I wanted to give people a chance to vote!) ;)

Will be back soon with a new little ornament to up on my store. And pictures of my new Sweetheart Tree start.

(ps, exciting news, I just booked my first craft fair table for June 2. Gotta make sure I have enough stock! It will be interesting to see if I fall flat on my face with no sales or run out of stock. It could go either way.)

Dragons Page Finished! (and stitching issue)

Yes it's true.
There is only 11 pages of Dragons to go. Are you thinking, really that's still a lot! Yes, yes it is. But after my next page of the blue dragon things get a lot faster with the sky being mostly 3 colours and not nearly as many confetti stitches. If you can imagine the patience it takes for those scales on the dragons... I'm amazed sometimes that this piece is still alive.  :)
But truly I love it, and might even be a bit sad in another 2 years when (hopefully) it will be complete to stop working on it. But there is always something new and exiting to work on that is for sure!
So without further adieu I give you page 17 (I think) of Judgement Dragons:

I've had some feedback from people that it's hard to tell how large or small dragons is. So here is the entire piece to date with the ruler to give you a true idea of it's size (and how tiny the stitches are).

So my issue...
well there are probably lots of them, but let's say we stick with stitching ones. I started this little ornament from Prairie Schooler the other day (it's two pumpkins stacked). I had some left over silk from The Raven so figured I'd use it. And this piece of leftover linen in the stash that was a great size. Thought it would be all great until this....

Can you see how not covered it all is? Painfully in my eyes. I guess on this linen (which is a 28ct but seems to have huge holes) and only 2 strands of silk it's just not going to do the trick. Or least so it seems to me. So tell me honestly what do you think? The linen, the silk, my inadequate stitching or it's fine? Be honest please, I do want real opinions on this. No egos in the room here.

I have other updates and items to show you that are going to be posted to my etsy store, including another stitching piece (or maybe two if I get the other finished tonight), a beaded bracelet and more Kumihimo. But that will be for later this week. I hope you'll come by and visit me then. And thank you to everyone that has left such lovely comments about my pieces and my new store. 

The Winner & Etsy

Should I tease you first... another page in dragons is done. However I need to get a picture tonight in order to show you... but it's done and you will see it soon! :)

I have some exciting news to share. I have set-up an Etsy store and it's live and running right now!
The items up there are ones that haven't seen the light of the day as they have been living protected in a drawer. I love them all I just don't have a "purpose" for them. So why not see if I can find them a good home right?
I also did up a new little piece that I love. Having this store will allow me to do up pieces that I want to do even when I don't have a "purpose or home" for them. Which is awesome. (and if they never sell then that's okay as at least I tried and they didn't just live in my drawer forever)
You can visit my store at: www.etsy.com/shop/epicstitching

The new piece in there is from Cricket Collection. It's on lovely 28ct Haunted linen from Picture this Plus. I used different hand-dyed threads from my stash to complete it. This is "Man in the Moon":

 

And now for the information many of you are waiting for... 

The winner of the Kumihimo bracelets is: 

Denise from Ohio

Congratulations my dear, if you could please email me your address and what size of bracelets would be best I will get them on their way to you!

In other news I started my April cottage today and will have an update of it soon (and of course my promised dragon picture). I will also see if I can snag some pics of my babies (the snakes) sometime soon as well. Thanks for all your lovely comments on the bracelets and baby sampler. I need to put some more stitches into the sampler soon too!  (oh and I have a Sweetheart tree quadrilateral to work on as well for a wedding... I'm afraid of it as it's got complicated instructions so we'll see how it goes)