Major happy dance time

At 11.30 pm last night I put the last stitch into CdC and just in case your wondering it was the one in the top right corner :)

Started on Jan 1st 2011 and left in the PHD drawer for most the time until August 3rd when it became my weekend project.

I'd seen lots of these done on dark fabric with colourful thread and I wanted to be a little different so went with bright fabric (Opal sunflowers from Sparklies) and black thread.

Ink Circles

Cirque des Cercles

Weekend progress

I finished the last bit of the large circle. got 2 more full circle done as well as lots of smaller ones last weekend 

And as you can see I'm very close to finishing it completey

I'd love to be able to say it'll be finished this weekend but it's unlikely to happen which is a shame as I would of loved to have it done to take to Harrogate knitting and Stitching with me to show it off on Sparklies stand

Weekend progress

Cdc made an appearance at the weekend again and I managed to almost fill the huge circle in centre.

I'm hoping I'll be finished this month, keep your fingers crossed for me it would be lovely to cross this one off the list

Weekend progress

I've started to fill in the big circle in the middle now

I'd say I'm around 2/3 done now and should finish sometime in November

Weekend progress

Here we are on Friday night and once again I'm only just getting round to posting last weekends progress on CdC

I'm really pleased with how much I got done and now have 3 corners completed :)

I reckon I'm in the region of 2/3 done now.

Plan for this weekend is to start filling in that huge circle

Weekend progress

I thought I'd better post last weekends progress before I start again tomorrow :)

Thank you for all the lovely comments on the carriage and yes Jo the blocks count down the days I had it on 08 simply because that was the date I finished it

Weekend progress

When I asked you all to help me pick my new weekend project I was really undecided between Thread bear and Cirque so with your help I went with Cirque.

Here's how it was when I asked (it's also a good pic of the fabric colour)

And after the weekend

Beaded CdC

I've been working on this again for the last few days and have now reached the half way point with it so I'm a happy bunny this evening :)  Fingers crossed it won't take me as long to do the second half.

Weekend progress

I wasn't well over the weekend :(  I think it was a bit of a reaction to my flu the week before but no matter the cause the over one stitching on the daffs was too much so I pulled out Alchemical Romance to work on.

I was doing well with it until I ran out of the brown silk so progress came to a sudden stop and will stay that way until  I get my rear into gear and order some more.

So CdC came out to play on Sunday and went from this 

to this 

It's been so long since CdC saw the light of day I'd forgotten just how much fun it is to work on so I'm going to try and work on it again before too long

Progress on beading PHDs

In the last month or so I've worked on both my large, long term beading projects

First is my beaded CdC aka my mad idea :)  the last time I can find a post about it is here way back in  Nov 2014!!   I'm a few rows short of hitting the half way point now

And my Dragon Robe.  The last post I can find about it is here but I know I've worked on it since July 2014!!

It doesn't show in the pick but I've changed the way I hold while I work on it which make sit much easier to hold but it has altered the tension of it :(   It's for me and this is the back so I can live with it :)

Cirque des Cercles

Having finished Home is where the Sunflowers grow and an exchange project this week I found myself without a currently active PHD to do on Friday so Cirque des Cercles came out to play for the day and should the same thing happen again another week then it'll come out again. 

The last time I can find a pic of is on my blog is here but it's obviously had a little love since then because it looked like this Friday morning 

and here it is on Friday evening and this gives you a much better idea of the fabric colour  Sparkling Sunflowers (what a surprise!) from Sparklies

You think that's bright? just wait and see what Kate custom dyed for me to do another one of the Cirques on in the future

You'll find the most recent but out of date pic of my beaded version here I'll really should try and remember to post a more up to date version of it and work on it more but right now I'm working towards finishing the Kimono

Beaded CdC update

I haven't posted an update on this for the biggest part of a long time but I've been plodding on with slowly on and off this year and I'm coming up on the halfway point now.

All my previous pics have been of it in 2 pieces and I joined them together a few months back and then separated them again because I really wasn't happy with the join and I worked out it was because I had the second one the wrong way round, silly girl!

One of my goals for this year was to get one of CdC finished and it's looking like that isn't going to happen :( but I can always make it one of next years goals and

Couple of beading updates

I'm still not well :(  while I feel fairly OK in myself I'm still struggling to breathe at times esp in the afternoons so I'm still making good progress on things.

Today my Dragon Robe got some attention, last time it appeared here it looked like this and no I didn't do all the progress today I just haven't taken a pic of it for so long.

Today I worked from the gold up apart from the first couple of rows with gold in them 

It would appear that it's getting on for 18 months since I last shared progress on my beaded CdC.

It's not been touched for a few weeks again but it kinda jumped in my hands and demanded I take a pic of it after I'd done the Dragon Robe one.

I'm plodding on to being half done :)

Bit of an allsorts post

I've not had internet since Friday until today so this is going to be a bit of catch up post

First up is the TUSAL jar at DBF's modelled by the very lovely Scruffy who always keeps my lap warm when I'm there

Since I remembered to take my camera for the TUSAL pic I thought I'd take one of my current project, Peony in close up

I went to one of my beading groups last week and we had a quick demo on how to make a box, sorry for the glare

I've finished 2 bracelets.  The top one is a Russian Spiral (I learnt this stitch years ago as netted rope and didn't realise it was the same one till I started!) the bottom one is a Chevron bracelet 

I've made some decent progress on my beaded CdC

And of course on Scary Book

I'm pretty sure I've forgotten something so I'll come back when I remember

Mad Idea update

It's been a while since I last posted this and I have made progress on it lately so thought I'd better prove I'm still working on it.

It's still not at 1/3 done but I am loving it even it's a little difficult to hold at times.

CdC update

CdC got a little love last month, both of them did but I've not got a pic of the beaded version to share because I forgot to take one so I'll fix that in the next few days

July updates

I did say I was behind in showing stuff from July and that includes stitching :(

I worked on 

Basket of Apples

CdC had a little love

And this is Kaleidoscope as I put it down last Sunday night but I've been working on it this weekend so it's further on now.

I did manage to get an ornament done in July as well but have yet to get my butt into gear and take a pic of it for you, maybe tomorrow.

This week ....

I worked on my normal version of CdC for a while

Gave Mary some attention on Friday and finished the blue motif

And spent the weekend working on My Earth when I wasn't giving my bedroom a belated spring clean (the pic looks a little odd because I had to unroll the scroll to take it so it's half resting on it)

Some updates

Monday's progress on Basket of Apples and the basket is finished apart from the back stitch

Feb's ornament, 2006 Snowman by Ursula Micheal Designs from 2006 JCS ornament issue stitched on 14 count aida and it's for Caleb.

Because I finished the ornament Thursday morning I had the rest of the day to work on something else so I pulled out CdC.  I'd almost got the circle complete when I discovered I was out by one stitch so had to frog the entire thing.

And last weekend I worked on my beaded CdC 

So far this week I haven't worked on my UFO which is unusual for me so I'm planning on putting that right in the morning before I pick Celtic Banner up.

January starts so far

I have no intention of going mad and starting loads of new projects but I will be starting a few things and here are the first couple

Stitched CdC

CCN Joyful Summer, the fabric is actually a pastel yellow not the white it looks like but it was dull this morning because it was snowing when I took the pic.