Nearing completion – 1 down, how many to go?

I have about 5 wips on the go at the moment, and earlier in August, I had 2 weeks holiday where I planned to make tracks into at least one.  I had hoped to get the “my big toe” design finished before I went back to work, but that didnt happen, unfortunately.
However, it looks like [...]

I’m still in the first week of a 2 week staycation, and it’s been interesting how little stitching I’ve been doing.  I was down at my parent’s place dog sitting on the weekend – did a lot of stitching on the Saturday, not much on the Sunday.  Had things to do both Monday and Wednesday [...]

more frogging?

I cant believe how much frogging I’m doing on this *$£% kit!   (“Reflections” by My Big Toe Designs).  It’s not a difficult design, but with the lettering being so close together (some lines are only 1 square from the next line above/below), being out even a little bit can be fatal and require a frog [...]

Cross Stitch Programs on Mac

My sister, the artist, was up today, and saw the WIPs I have lying around.  Once again it lead to the discussion of how to get additional income from things we made, and how difficult it was to sell on things made from kits due to copyright issues.
We agreed that if she designed, then I [...]

Well I seem to have spent as much time frogging this design as stitching it! Another few hours was spent taking an additional 2 characters apart. I’ve never had an attempt that’s so wrong so early. All I can think is that this is an American kit, so you start in the top [...]

My Big Toe – why all the effort?

Well as if I didnt have enough WIPs on the go already, I decided to start the “Reflections” sampler from My Big Toe designs the other week, thinking it was going to be a relatively nice easy job – only 3 colours, a couple of alphabets and plain sailing right? I should be so lucky.  [...]

It’s Spring!

And therefore a round up of the wips that a currently sitting out there that may need daylight to help me out (because try as you might, daylight simulation bulbs are never the same really are they?)
Anyway, I’ve been dabbling recently with the Anchor kit for “Queen Nefertiti”, and not done too badly, but gotten [...]

Beautiful Balloons WIP

DSC_0026, originally uploaded by Nordie.

I’ve been putting some time in whilst waiting (still waiting!) for an engineer to turn up.  Of course it’s gone 6:30 in the evening and he still hasnt turned up, and I had to take a day off to wait for him.  Gah!

The cross stitch is still a work in Progress, [...]

Sbq prompt 14/05/08

For seasoned stitchers: Define a stitching term or acronym for new stitchers.
For newbies: What stitching term or acronym would you like defined?

For me, the one that I like the most is “Frogging”, which is to unpick or unstitch previous work.  Derived from having to “Rip it! Rip it!” (ribbit, ribbit).
I’ve recently learnt several other terms [...]

oooh

Well the computer is back up and working, but my blogs are still blocked at work, which is probably a good thing as I would spend far too much time on the internet instead of working!
Meanwhile I am visiting the parents this weekend and rather than take one of my bigger projects down, I have [...]