Winter in the Village - FINISHED

Well, I finished another WIP.  I'm so excited about crossing off another one.  I started this one in October 2012 so it took about a year and a half.  I could have finished it much sooner but I had a lot of other projects that I worked on in the mean time.  My WIP list was 20, now it's down to 19.  I can't wait to knock off some more.  I will eventually do the remaining 3 seasons but I've got some other projects I want to get started before then.

It was done on 16 ct Ivory Aida (although I think the packing might have been mislabeled because it's not as yellow as other Ivory colored fabric I picked up at the same time) in 2x1 full stitches.  Here's the finished piece.

oh, so close

I'm so close to finishing 2 projects that I can almost taste it.  They are Winter in the Village and We are Family.  There's always the excitement of finally finishing a project with the anticipation of being able to start another one without feeling quality about the ones you haven't finished.  Of course I still have a bunch of other projects that I need to finish, but I am narrowing my WIP List down and that's always a good thing.  Stayed tuned to see the finishes and also the new starts.

Winter in the Village - update

So with the temps outside hovering around 115 degrees all the time I needed something to help cool me off.  This project came to mind.  As I stitched it I could think of buildings covered in snow and cold winter mornings with your breath frosting in front of your face.  It help . . . somewhat.  I still sat sweating on the couch as I stitched but it took my mind off of the never-ending heat.

I was only going to stitch the church and then move on to another project but after finishing the church and the trees next to it, it was still pretty earlier in the evening that day and instead put this project up and starting another I stuck with it.  After finishing the Beauty Shop I had to do the trees next to it so I could do all the backstitching for the two buildings.

I started backstitching at the light pole and worked my way back over to finish up on the church.  It took 2 days of stitching to do it all.  I was so fed up with backstitching (which I hate to do) that I couldn't wait to take the fabric out of the qsnap and put it away.  It wasn't until a couple of days later that I realized I forgot to stitch the words Beauty Shop on the sign.  Oh well.  I still have to do all the stuff underneath the buildings so I guess I'll do it then.

This project is officially too long for my scanner.  What you see is all that will fit on the scanning bed.  I guess when I finish it I'll have to use a camera or my phone.  I don't know how to get pictures from the camera to the computer and phone takes terrible pics, but since I've moved on to another project I guess I've got time to figure that out. 

My goal would be to finish this project this year.  It's doable.  And it would be one more WIP I can cross off my list.

Winter in the Village - update

My goal was to finish 2 more buildings on this project this year.  While I finished the Toy Shop (I'm not counting the backstage buildings) so I've only got one more to do to meet my goal for this project this year.  I might revise that to finish the project if some other projects go well also.

Behold the power of backstitch

As I was doing the backstitch on the toy shop for my Winter in the Village project I was really blown away with how much of a difference it made.  When I got to the bottom and one window and toy soldier were finished but not the other ones you can really see the difference.  Take a look.

Winter in the Village - update

I finished another building (except for the backstitching) and was having so much fun with it I decided to work on the next building over and finish that before I start the backstitching.  Once I made the grid lines every 5 lines instead of 10 it's been much easier.  At least now the dark grid lines match the pattern. 

16ct Aida, 2x1, full

Winter in the Village - new start

I've wanted to do a seasonal design for a long time.  I picked this one since we really don't have a true winter season here and I miss the snow (except for driving on it). 

The design is Winter in the Village (I have all the seasons and will eventually do them all).  I'm doing it on 16ct Ivory Aida in 2x1 full stitches.  I'm also going to do the backstitch for each building once I've finished them.  Kind of like what I did for the Traffic Sampler.

Here's what it should look like:

Here's the first building done: