Block 9 Completed!

Over Saturday morning coffee, last backstitching completed.  Immediately started stitching outlines for last 3 blocks.  Too tired to write more.  Happy.

2013 WIPocolypse Recap

I see that many are recapping all their stitching accomplishments.  I don't really feel like I accomplished all that much in the way of finishes.  I was able to complete one project on my 2013 WIPocolypse list which was Nora Corbett's Halloween Fairy.

The WIP project that got the most attention in 2013 was CHS Christmas at Hawk Run Hollow although I was unable to finish it during the year as I had really hoped.  Here's what it looked like in January:

And as of yesterday.  I was able to complete two blocks and 2/3rds of a 3rd.  Given that there were 365 days in the year, it really feels like I should have completed much more when I look at the whole project. But there's only 3 and 1/3 blocks left to complete so I'm quite sure I will finish this thing in 2014.  I'd better!

Next on the list was my HAED Storey Keeper and this doesn't show much visual progress either considering the number of stitches that go into completing each 10x10 square!  I think this will turn out to be some kind of 10 year piece - if not longer!  Here it was in January,

And where it was at 12.31.13

Poor Ann Sandles really got no attention for the year.  I had to restart the piece and quite honestly I'm thinking of scrapping it all together.  I think I should have ordered the original fabric because I'm not that jazzed with it how it looks on the fabric I found in my stash.  This photo was from May and the one below from yesterday.  Such a little bit of progress to show....

And the final project on the list was my CHS Alphabet.  It's the same dismal story as with Ann Sandles.  This is another project that's been linger way to long and it might be my focus after C@HRH.  We'll see!

This was the photo when I pulled it out in February and where it stands now.  Two and 1/4 blocks completed with a whole lot more left to go.

I added a 2014 tab and the current projects are carry overs from 2013 but I may edit it some more.  I would really like to add some new projects this year and definitely do some dedicated Halloween stitching this year. 

I hope your year is off to a great stitching start!

Christmas @ HRH Update

It's been a while since I posted a photo of my work on Christmas at Hawk Run Hollow.  I took this piece with me to NH over Thanksgiving and made some great progress and I've continued to work on it here and there as time allows.

I worked a little farther on the tree while watching The Voice last night but I'm too tired tonight to do any more work on it.  I'm hoping to keep making progress on this through the end of the month.

Sunday Stitching

On Sunday Barbara and I met up in Belfast for a stitching day which we had not done in quite a long while.  It was great to see her and even better to get to meet Max, her oldest.  What a nice, TALL young man Barbara is raising.  Max wandered around Belfast while Barbara and I stitched and caught up and then we all had lunch together.  It was a perfect day for sitting and stitching because it was wicked foggy out and not exactly great weather for wandering around town. 

I was able to make some great progress on the snow in my current Christmas@HRH block.  I have to say I do not love the thread but I'm using what's called for so I'll have to stick it out for the rest of the blocks.  It's a Silk n Colors skein called Mint Frost but I'm not enjoying the greenish tinge (the mint part of the color I guess).

January TUSAL

Boy, my January TUSAL photo looks kind of meager doesn't it?  I took a close up photo to be sure you could actually see that there are a few threads in there. 

Since the start of the year, I've been stitching on CHS Christmas at HRH and my HAED Story Keeper so you see a mix of colors in the bottom of the jar.  I guess it will take a while to get it looking a bit plumper than today's photo.

Okay, everyone lean to the right!  it is so frustrating when Blogger won't add your photos with the right orientation.  Here ismy progress on Christmas @ HRH.  There is a LOT of stitching on this particular square.  And I don't even want to think about the next one. 
 

I really have a yen to start a new project after looking at some of the new things coming out online.  I absolutely adore Paulette Stuart's new piece but I think I will go stash diving and pick something out that won't cost me any money.  Happy Friday!!!