Snowdrops and Daffodils

I have put some snowdrops an daffodils as a next panel. The daffodils are ready, the snowdrops are fused, but not sewn yet, and the roots of the bulbs are also missing. 

I am contemplating a stronger yellow thread for the daffodils, because there is hardly any contrast. On the original there are some white flowers which are not seen in Hungary, so I am planning to change them to tulips  but I will see.

String along

I am using up my neutral strings, of which I have a huge amount. I thought it will be a leader/ender, but yesterday I felt like piecing, so to the original 7 greens I added 17 blues, arriving to 24 out of the 63 I will need.

Winter Maize - Cyclamen galore

I have started the applique for Winter Maize. I finished the 4 cyclamens, and it is good to touch all the nice fabrics and choose all the different hues. All the 4 are a little different, and I took the remains of the batiks of my Something Fishy (summer quilt), and they are playing along superbly. 

First finish - new pillow to the sisterhood

Writing a year-wrap helps to kick in the new year as well! 

I was pushing forward finishing the 3rd pillow, because when I did my list of nice things from 2021, I realised it is really a small thing to finish the 3rd pillow and move this project as far as I can. There is 2 more circles waiting to be finished, but one is not too nice neither the design nor the work how I put it together, and the other is waiting for a partner. I also out of blue background, so either I buy new (I have huge amount of fabric, so I would rather skip) or chose something from stash, but that blows up the symmetry. So I am at the moment happy with my 3 pillows and even more happy that I have something out of my sewing machine. The pattern of the pillows is from the quilt Round the Year by betukbandi.

 

 

 

2021 wrap up

So let's see what did I do in 2021. It was not a very productive year, but still I finished more than I thought. Instead stitching I read a lot (good!) and played a game called Planet Zoo (not that good). However, I was pushing to clean up the unfinished cross stitch basket, and I have managed to put the finishing touches to the Nativity Sampler, and gave away one with an acryl floss, what I will never finish.

So my list is the following:

Cross stitch:

Finishes & partings:

Heirloom Nativity Sampler by The Victoria Sampler  - finally finished the little hardanger missing, started in 2014 November. I did not managed to take it to the framer, but I will in 2022. The real colors are in between the 2 photos.

 

Heirloom Nativity Sampler - The Victoria Sampler

Anyag / Fabric : 32 ct Smokey Pearl Zweigart

Fonal / Floss : selyem, a mintaív szerint / silk as in the kit

Riolis 1079 Autumn forest - small part done, started in 2018 summer. 

I realised I will never finish it, so I gave it away

Around the World in Stitches by Papillon Creations- 

I did manage to mount it on a cardboard and finally bought a box to be mounted on, but did not finish it fully. I have started it in 2018 and finished in 2020.

 

 

Around the World in 80 Stitches - Papillon Creations

Anyag / Fabric : 32 ct white dmc

Fonal / Floss : Anchor

WIP

I worked on the following WIPs:

Pomarium by Chatelaine, fully done, only the beading is missing! I started in 2016 December

 

Chatelaine: Pomarium

Fonal/Floss: DMC + many silks as suggested in the kit

Anyag/Fabric: Zweigart antique white 32 ct Belfast

Kingfisher by Anchor - started in 2020 July as a holiday travelling piece

 

Anchor: Kingfisher

Fonal/Floss: Anchor from the kit

Anyag/Fabric: Zweigart white 16 ct Aida from the kit

Sans Soucis by Long Dog Samplers - started in 2020 September

 

Long Dog Samplers: Sans Soucis

Fonal / Floss: Caron (#63,#153) Gloriana (#67) Edmar Rayon (#206)

Anyag/Fabric: Tea dyed Zweigart white 32 ct line

Autumn Watergarden by Chatelaine, 1st quarter - started in 2019 August

 

Chatelaine: Autumn Watergarden

Fonal/Floss: DMC + many silks as suggested in the kit

Anyag/Fabric: Zweigart antique white 32 ct Belfast

QUILTING 

A finish: A polka dot quilt for my niece:

I was working on a WIP:

Round the Year by betukbandi- 8 out of  16 done

I also made pillows for the covers I made from them. It is a 2 sided pillow, 2 of them is already done.

 

I had 2 projects other from 2020, but I did not touched them at all.

Winter Maize by Ngaire Brooks: piecing done, applique in line

String - a few pieces done, I started it as a leader/ender project

SEWING & OTHER

I created a baby book

I finished 3 T shirts what I really like

I dibbled some in bag making:

A therapy-bed carrying bag for my sister-in-law bag (she is a physiotherapist who visits patients)

A sturdy bag I gave to my mother

and a some bags for my kitchen 

  

and some more masks since Covid is still on....

Small things and a few big pillows

I just realised there are several months went by without posting anything. My stitching mojo left me, and I did some smaller things, but somehow forgot to post even them. To wrap up 2021 I start with these bits and bobs:

I made a little bag for a friend - his wife asked with a very specific measurements to sew this to keep bicycle tools. I used the remaining material of my sister-in-law carrier, and it was perfect for the task.

I also finished 2 pillows of the circles I sewed from the Round the Year pattern. There is also a 3rd partially ready, and they turned out real nice.

 

I fixed a bag for my sister-in-law an also bought a stay-at-home jogging for me which I really liked, but needed some fitting. I am looking for one at least for 3 years, but none I found I liked, and this was close to the ideal. It is nothing fancy, but a simple jogging without any writing from a warm cotton. Somehow it seems everwhere there is some extra something added, or the material is awful. I checked some extremely expensive ones, but I did not like them at all, and at the end I found these in H&M dirt cheap, only the waist was a little too high, so I cut it back by a few centimeters. I just love them!

Pomarium ready, sparkling begins

 I have finished Pomarium last week, now the beading starts. Glimmer on! It is huge, I put a pen next to have a feeling of the dimensions.