March Stitching, Continued....

Here's how I'm going on the orchid. I've had to restitch it on 14 ct aida, as the 18 ct I originally started it on was too small for doing 3/4 stitches (at least for my eyes, anyway). It still has a way to go, but the hard stuff (the leaves) are done at least. The rest (the flowers) are just finicky but won't take too long I hope. Given it has to be finished pretty much by Monday, I still have some hard stitching ahead, but when it's done, it's done, and I'll be glad.

Photos of quilt to follow, I promise!

Toodles....

March Stitching

Here is what I am working on currently. It is an "Early-Purple Orchid". Given I started a few hours ago, and I'm working on 18ct cream, with lots of fractional stitches, it's coming along rather nicely. It's from the Cross Stitcher Magazine's book of Country Flowers in Cross Stitch, by Debra Page. 

Apart from this, I have been working on a quilt I started last year for winter. I'll upload some photos in my next blog entry. I've never made a quilt before, so it's all quite new to me. But I made a promise to myself that I wanted to make a quilt that was fairly traditional in more ways than just the pattern. So what I have done is made the quilt from scraps, which is fairly normal, except that these scraps are from a rag bag from my local thrift shop. These rags were once clothes. They make for fairly hard-wearing fabrics, as well as some rather interesting patterns. A friend of mine, who is a quilter (and a very good one), said that she liked "the originality and ingenuity" of it. So I have a quilt with pockets, buttons, and seams, for the most part. It's a very long way from being finished, as it's meant for a queen-sized bed, but I hope by Winter, that it will be far enough along to be able to sit under while I work on it!

Anyway, more on that later!

Toodles....