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Monday, October 26, 2015

Angelic Weekend Stitching

Well hello to another Monday!

I have a little bit of stitching to show today... and both pieces are almost finished!


So first up we have my Friday night stitching which I will also post over on the "Friday Frolics" blog shortly.

This time around I didn't stitch on an old WIP.... I decided to stitch on my October piece for the Christmas Ornie SAL as this month is rapidly drawing to a close and I haven't done my angel or nativity piece yet.

I actually started this new design on Thursday evening, so when Friday came around the Angel looked like this:
Before FF stitching
After stitching on Friday night, the Angel looked like this:

After FF stitching
and seeing as I need to finish her by the end of the week, I continued stitching on Saturday and Sunday on her as well... she now looks like this:

as at Sunday 25 Oct 2015
I know she looks a bit weird at the moment..... I have to find (order) the colour for her hair and locate some more of the colour of the shading around her wings, so I stitched what I could and then started backstitching the lower section.  I am not stitching the bottom of the dress as I need to keep this as a small design (further details on why later...).  You will probably notice that I changed the word "Joy" and stitched it in gold Kreinik.  I have also embellished her sleeve and head dress with green Kreinik just to bling it up a bit!!

For those of you that might like to know where this design came from.... she can be found in a very old Cross Stitch Christmas magazine (1999) - design is called "Joyful Angels Triptych" and is designed by Mona Eno.  I am stitching her on a piece of "Waratah" 32 count fabric from Stitches and Spice.

Once I had gone as far as I could on my Angel yesterday, I decided to pull out my little MS Xmas mouse again and pop a couple more stitches in him.

The last time I showed you the MS Xmas mouse #2 he looked like this:


now he looks like this - main stitching is now finished and backstitch has begun:


That's it for another weekend stitching round up.  See you all again soon!


Til next time, happy stitching
Hugs xx





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13 comments:

  1. Such a lovely little Xmas Mouse - so warm and so very pretty! Thanks for showing this adorable creation...
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  2. Hello Noni,

    Love how much you got to stitch on the Angel design, it is lovely to see you choosing colours and parts of the pattern to suit you.
    I see you are reading a Agatha Raisin book do they have to be in a certain order or not.

    Happy days.
    Bev.

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  3. Great progress on both pieces - well done!

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  4. Nice progress on your Xmas stitching! I totally forgot about the FF - I've been soo busy lately with Xmas prep!

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  5. Lovely progress.I do love the purple coloured bauble

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  6. A sweet little mousie and and adorable angel.

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  7. Cute projects and nice progress Noni.

    Linda

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  8. Two terrific pieces. Love that mouse!

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  9. That mouse is already looking so cute! Lovely angel stitching on that beautiful red fabric. Looking forward to seeing them done:)

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  10. Great stitching this weekend. The mouse is very cute, I wonder if Kaye will choose "mice" as a theme for next year? I have a few MS designs with mice!

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  11. Lovely stitching Noni! Ahhhh Margaret Sherry......her stuff is sooooo cute!!

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  12. Wow, these are two great Christmas pieces and you made some nice progress on them. The little mouse is so cool. And you are right, right now the angel is looking a little strange but on the picture from the magazine I can see what she will be looking like in the end. Great red fabric you are stitching her on.

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  13. You feel Xmas coming.. the stitching are going so fast..
    It's almost the end of teh year, How is it with all your challenges???

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