Anniversary Young new project

My parents will have been married 50 years this coming summer and I've been thinking about working on a project for them. Even though their anniversary isn't until September we are having a family party in June to celebrate. Now I'm under the gun to get something done.

This is the project I decided to do. I wanted to do them both on one piece with a center section with their names and dates of marriage but that's not going to happen. I've started the young one and I think I might make them as pillows so they can put them on their bed. I'm going to substitute their dates and names for the sayings in the designs.



Here's my progress so far:

Prayers FINISHED

My first finish of the year! Now I've got to wash it and get it framed. Hopefully I can frame it myself decently enough. I don't have the money to get it professionally framed.

Prayers WIP

I'm working on this next project as a birthday present for my sister-in-law. I hope she likes it. I got the pattern from one of my Cross Stitch A Day Calendars but I don't remember which year (I'm pretty sure it's 2011). I don't have a picture of what the final project is suppose to look like so you'll just have to wait. The saying is "Prays go up Blessing come down". I'm doing it on a piece of colorfully dyed 14ct fabric from silkweavers.com. I got it in one of their solo sales so it doesn't have a name. I'm doing it 2x1 in full stitches. I will frame it myself when I'm done. Wish me luck.

Here is my progress:

Stained Glass Window FINISHED

I've finished my Stained Glass Window project and yes, I'm going to be giving it away. I've washed it but haven't ironed it yet. Once I get it in the frame I'll post a picture of that too.

Stained Glass Window update

Here's another update for my Stained Glass Window project. I think I should be done later today or tomorrow.:

The Last E Ticket Ride update

Here is a project that I've been working on for my family room. It's called The Last E Ticket Ride by James Christensen. Here is what the finished piece is suppose to look like:




I just finished page 2 of the pattern the other day, so here is my progress. I'm doing it 2 over 1 on 20ct hardanger fabric. This was before I tried tent stitches. I think things would be going much faster if I was doing that.:



I think it's kind of cool but the confetti stitches in the face and lower right area were a pain in the ass. I've got to come up with a better way to do confetti stitches. I started this project 2 years ago (October 2009). I've worked on a lot of other projects since then because it didn't take me a whole year to do each page. I'm going to make a conscious effort to work on projects for me and not try to do so many as gifts. Every time I think about doing something as a gift I put my projects aside to do them. That is why it's taken 2 years to do 2 pages . . . and why my walls are bare in my house. I haven't been able to finish anything to hang up.

Curl Up with a Good Book update

So I had a goal of finishing this first page by the end of the year and I don't think I'm going to make it. Oh well. If there wasn't so much confetti I might actually have done it. It didn't help that I was also trying to finish page 2 of The Last E Ticket Ride, crochet an afghan as a Christmas gift and paint a toy box in 7 different colors as a Christmas gift as well. Live and learn I guess.