An update of sorts!

 Hi everyone!
The weather is so nice here, quite hot actually. So strange but by hot weather, I cannot stitch that much, my fingers got all moist... ok, I'm just finding myself some excuse because I haven't stitch that much! So what have I been doing except from dozing?

1. Been cooking a little. My brother and friends asked me to cook something. So I made a chicken biryani with some boondi raita, a recipe I found on the net (which I change to my taste). So there it is

2. Been browsing again the HAED website because of their sale: 50% nothing less! so I found this one so beautiful, and I've wanted for some time to stitch something green. And it has became essential because I need something refreshing with this so hot weather!

3. Been stitching a little on Blue bird

By the way, I have two things to show to you: my pride and my shame. Let's begin with my UFO ( I don't consider, as for now, any of my other projects as UFO, if i can't finish them, It's not my fault but because I'm not a witch or a vampire) It is English garden of Teresa Wentzler. I love her designs. I have almost finished every cross stitch in it, but I cannot put myself to do any beading or any special stitching.

On the other side, I am extremely proud of this one. I've designed it myself as a gift to a dear friend. It's a comic character called Agent 212.

So that's all folks! Time to go back stitching!
Happy stitching everyone!

Sorry...

    I have been bad: no stitching done so far, or so few. I was involved with boxes, lifting, bags, climbing, more boxes, pushing, managing, a lot of boxes. Easy guess: I was moving, and back to my parents' house. Seems to me that i'm unstitching my life. But in real life, you never really unstitch anything, you just put more threads in already stitched areas and you make up a new picture.

    So no blue bird, no stitching (actually, I manage to grab 1h of stitching very late at night, but I was too tired to do anything good), therefore no update. But I love to chat, so I just come anyway to post something. Why not some planning? I'm usually the queen of plans that I never achieve afterwards. But it is so much fun. 

   Right now, I'm totally hooked with HAED designs. So I think that I may start a new one or two (you see how much I try to sound cautious...). I love the Gustafson charts. The first ever HAED that I've bought is St nick in his study. But my favourite is The wizard of oz: I've watched the film a dozen of times in my childhood. So as I got the fabric, you may expect a start on it at the end of the week! I feel already so excited.
    An update without a photo isn't an update, so there is another finish of mine. The autumn sampler of Janlynn. I intended to do the whole series, but you know what, HAED came my way, and I don't know when I can find the time. But it will come someday, somehow.

Happy stitching!

Stitching addiction, Oh My Blue Bird, 2010 Finishes

       My soon-to-be hubby had an interesting thought yesterday evening (he often has actually). As it was 8 pm and I was bidding him good night (it was 0.30 am in sri lanka), he found that I was a little too happy to send him to sleep, he knew that my stitching time has come. So he proclamed that stitching was my secret lover (a good secret really, as I kept on talking about it). After some discussion, he decided that stitching was the husband, and he would be the lover. Whatever, did I say as long as he let me stitching. Sounded funny to me, so I decide to share it with you.

      By the way, I’m going to go crazy with the blue bird : it has some 40 colours or so for the first page only ! It’s insane. Well, it is sure to be wonderful when I’m done with it, but meanwhile…snif, snif.

      So to cheer me up, I’m going to show one of my finishes of 2010. One of my auntie asked me to stitch her something. She's Pad-mum little sister and I'm very fond of her. She has a wonderful taste and her house looks like something from a magazine (something that I will never achieve I know...). So I have to give her something special, not that every cross stitch project I do isn't special, but it has to suit her taste. At that time, I was stitching/struggling with Oriental Splendour of Dimensions. So i finished it and offered her. i was so happy to see her pleased. 

      For the record, OS has accomplished the amazing task of making me up with the French Knot. Why do they call that french? I'm french and it didn't help me a bit. So unfair! First, I thought of leaving them undone, but the lilacs in the bouquet without the knots wouldn't have been the same. So, I fought and ...won! In the meantime, my dear friend at work, heard about it a thousand times. And she, who doesn't know the first thing about cross stitching, knows all about the FK!

      Enough talk: time for the photos

Happy stitching!