Mary again ;) and a welcome to all 'my' readers

In spite of a lazy Sunday (there is a flu coming up, I am shivering and coughing, but not yet ill enough to spend the day in bed. So an update on my blog is a good idea, taking some pictures, writing a blogpost.

I noticed there are 200 followers since this week! Thank you for reading my little adventures with needle and thread! I know most bloggers are doing a giveaway to celebrate something like this. I am not. I am a different kind of woman. I like blogging, I like you following me, I am just not into organizing a give-away. But I welcome you dearly :)

Now Mary. She has a grip on me, these  days, so I can show some more progress on her.

And there is another piece that has some progress. I doubt if you have seen it before on my blog. It is my summer stitching, in companion to Mary. Cirque des Carreaux by Ink Circles.

Work has been very busy, so I am strongly in need of relaxing. Did you know, knitting is relaxing? I did, so here is some progress on Red Wine.

And progress on NightInGail. Almost a third done.

Oh, I almost forgot, I have a little progress on quilting too! Autumn colours and the sun rising early, a rather strange combination, but I chose the fabric because of the lovely feathers.

Mary and Autumn

We had beautiful days this week. sunny and warm, so after work I could relaxoutside with my stitching. Mary Wigham grows slowly. Two ornaments are added and her name is stitched.The picture is a bit dark, taken outside in full sunlight, so I had to photoshop a little bit.

Part 4 of Many Years Ago is finished. This sampler is not always a pleasure to stitch. The fabric makes me miscount, so I have to frog now and then en re-stitch.

And there is my knitting. Part two of the Fall Mystery, Forever Autumn as mine is named, is not yet done, but I want to show a clearer picture with beads. I am halfway part two now.

End of vacation ....

Tomorrow lazy days are over, school starts again, so I have to be present early in the morning. I had a really great vacation! The weather hasn't been like it should be in summer, a lot of rain, but due to my stitching an quilting activities I had a reaxing time. And we spent two weeks in Germany with lovely summer weather! What else could you wish for?

To start with last week adventures, I had my Holland Springtime framed. It is now hanging on my wall!

I stitched on Mary again.  I found out I can also stitch on her inside, using my ott-lamp and a magnifier, so there is a little progress.

There is also the start of a knitting project. Fall Mystery by Renee Leverington. Clue one is started and finished today.

A lot to show ....

There's a lot to show. We went on vacation, two whole weeks, and that means lots of stitching/knitting time.
Mystery #28 is finished. The name I've given it is Lucy in the Sky.

 

I finished the top of A Whimsical Christmas. This quilt is composed by the monthly ornaments of LHN, stitched last year.

 

The second part of Many Years Ago is finished. 

Mary Wigham has progress. And that is very special, because I only can stitch on her on bright summerdays. Outside.

Another shawl is casted on, Gail. Or, my version: NightinGail.

 

Together with a dear friend I sewed a jacket.

 

And there is progress on the Fair Isle Shawl, Red Wine. 

And during all this I enjoyed my vacation, seeing lots of Bonn, Cologne and the beautiful area of Westerwald, Germany.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clue 4 and update Call of the Raven

It's been a while since I showed an update on Call of the Raven, but I am still stitching on her. She is my monthly project, each month a thousand stitches. I reached the end of her skirt this week.

And still knitting. Clue 4 of Mystery #28 is finished. Only one part to go!

Vacation

First of all I want to thank you for all your lovely comments. It made me happy, to know you all are dancing with me for my finish of the Village.

As you might know I have a long vacation and so I have extra stitching time. But not only stitching time, L can also get some extra sleep, spend more time reading and do some extra cleaning in the house. Our bathroom needed some extra attention, colouring my hair is done and all of a sudden two weeks passed!

I have an update to show.  I joined another Yahoogroup and they run a SAL, called Many Years Ago. You get  a part every two weeks and part one is done.  I stitched this on a Silkweaver 32 ct,  Redwood Forest and I used  Purple of Variegated Pinks by the Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe.

There is also a new knitting project. A shawl, really big in Fair Isle Technique. It is meant to become like this, but of course I can only show the beginning yet. Its called Jewel Shawl and a Jewel it is, I think.

As far as the knitting I showed last week, I frogged it completely. For now the yarn is laid aside, I have another Mystery Shawl on the go and I will focus on that.