Who wants to come dancing?
I finished! Snowball fight is all done *cheer*. I managed to get it finished last night which means I can now move on to finishing off some of my other over two pieces that have been languishing. It was a wonderfully easy and quick stitch (even though it took me since december I have spent very little time on it in the intervening months).
Details are as follows:
Desiginer: Jenifer Aitkin-Smith: Dragon Dreams
Design: Snow Ball Fight
Fabric and changes: It is stitched on 28ct crystla linen from Picture this Plus in “mercedes” and I changed the fluffy stuff to purple. The stitching around the scarf was changed to 550 to match the purple although I am not completely happy with that choice. The white dms was replaced with white mill hill beeds for the small snow flakes and there is a single strand of Kreinik BF (forgotten the number) in with the white text. The french knots for the eyes were also replaced by petite balck mill hill beads because I was lazy and thy were closer than my instructions on how to do french knots which I have forgotten.
You can’t really make out the text along the top of the design or how sparkly it is in the photo. In some light the text blends too well into the background, however, I actually like the effect. Sorry for the bad piccie it was late last night when I took it and the light was atrocious.
In other news I went stashing at the stitches and crafts fair yesterday and picked up some yummy dinky dyes silks along with thier celtic diamond knot chart and a couple of skeins of stitches and spice hand dyed cottons too. I managed to refrain from fabric purchases though as I was on a budget (did note down which colours I am interested in though). I also picked up a Kustom Krafts chart “Devoted Soulmates” , 20 Celtic Candlewicking Designs for my grand quilt idea, some fabric dyes for lace painting and a gorgeous lace applique which will find its home on a 17th or 18th century corset one of these days. All in all not too bad a haul and I had a wonderful time with Nic. Linda Jenny (my MIL and SIL).
Nic and I also both fell in love with a few celtic and dragon quilt kits from Applicuts too. Namely the Dragons Parade, Dragons Lair, Quilt of Kells and another one Ithat I think was called Puff. While we both managed to resist buying a kit at the show I am not sure either of us will last more than a few months before caving and ordering the kits online. (more…)