I'm so behind- I realized I never posted my QS finish from October. QS Daydreaming, by Zindy Nielson. This is one of the charts from the HAED bulletin board year-long SAL.





And a set of framed Tiny Treasures I stitched for a friend's new baby (and my dad did the frames)- Bo Peep, Humpty Dumpty, PatACake, and Cow over the moon, all by Nancy Faulkner.




Everyone's stitching is gorgeous!

I've been stitching on Storykeeper every thursday, but haven't managed to post an update every week. So, here she is as of this past thursday:




I've also been working on Daydreaming Fairy by Zindy Nielson for the BB Freebie SAL, and have made some progress on her:




Seeing everyone's progress is really motivating for me- thank you!

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I thought I would show Daydreaming Fairy QS this week. Nearly there with Page 2 - the eyes are slowing me down with lots of confetti stitches but she is looking so beautiful.
I have been doing some cooking so you are all invited over - we have Blueberry Scones and a Caramel Nut Tart. I think of all the time spent cooking and within 1/4 hr it is all gone. I would much rather be stitching......LOL.

Everyone is doing fantastic work and I love to see all the updates. I am a bit behind on reading Blogs at the moment - hope to catch up over the week-end.
I also kitted up Crabby Crush QS - Hannah Disney. The colours in this are so bright and I am looking forward to starting her.

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I have finally had some time to stitch after planning, organizing and having our wedding. :) I finished a couple of smaller projects and then continued my HAEDs. I started to catch up with my SAL 2009 piece QS Day Dreaming Fairy. I put some stitches in on Thurday SAL too. :) I am planning on stitching the backround first before starting her hair and face. It is a bit boring but luckily it's quite quick to stitch. This picture is taken a few days ago and I've stitched more since. I had to frog on Wednesday so it took me back about 200 stitches. Luckily I noticed the error before stitching more than that. I will stitch some sparklies next and after those I'm ready to start her hair. Goodbye light shades! :)

And some non-stitching news: we booked flights to Paris and a hotel room at the Disneyland for our honeymoon trip on May! We are so excited about that and can hardly wait. :) We'll spend most of our holiday at the Disneyland but also plan on going to Paris for a day, have a nice dinner, walk along the Seine and maybe visit the Eiffel tower and the Louvre (if I can talk my husband in to it :D).

Stitching has been rather slow in my house at the moment due to having DH home with torn tendons around his wrist and I am being the good little nurse.....LOL.

Thought I would do an update of Daydreaming Fairy. I love how she is looking but I still have a few big patches of Blending Filament to get through before finishing off Page 2. I hope to get this page finished before the end of the month all going well.

I love everyone's progress. I haven't had time to comment on them all but well done everyone.

Last Thursday I worked on Storykeeper again. I've now finished just over 15 pages, so less than 5 to go.




And this weekend, I worked on Daydreaming Fairy (Nielson) for the BB Freebie SAL. Here's my progress on her:




Everyone's stitching is beautiful and inspiring!

Firstly I finished up the 10hrs on Blue Pearls Mermaid QS. Love the pretty colours in this piece and they way the pearls are starting to twine around her arms. I can't wait to get this into a permanent slot in my rotation. The artwork is by Elaine Cox.

The second one is Day dreaming Fairy. I finished off page 1. Yippee and have finished the first 10 rows. I am dreading next week stitching on her as the next 10 rows are pretty solid blending filament...Yuck but I will bite the bullet and get it out of the road. I love seeing the movement in her hair. It is just so beautiful.



















Lastly is Leaf and as I said I would do here is my backside of her.
Last week I stitched down from the eye and the nose is now coming into view. This is stitching up really fast as there are large blocks of colour and it shouldn't take long to finish Page 8. She is such a delight to look at and stitch. And watching her come to life is just magical.

Well here is my picture of Leaf for this week. She has TWO eyes. Yaaaay. I just love stitching her and can't wait to get to the lips which will be some months away though.

I have also put in a picture of my Blue Pearls Mermaid QS which is my 10hr Focus. I just love the colours in this and have already done 5 hrs this week -mainly confetti stitching.

Last is Daydreaming Fairy SAL 2009. I love her hair and am really pleased with how she is looking

This past weekend, I worked on QS Daydreaming Fairy for the BB Freebie SAL. Here's my progress:




I'm really enjoying stitching her. She's 1x1 on 28 count evenweave.

And I've also made some progress on Faulkner's TT BoPeep:



She's 1x1 on 32 count lugana.

I'll be joining in the SAL tomorrow with Storykeeper. Everyone's stitching is gorgeous- I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's progress this week!

Gabi, you asked what my other 9 WIPs besides Storykeeper are.
Full size: Anderson's Moth Queen (have less than a page done on her)
Daniels' Luna (working on her only during the BB retired artist SAL)
Sessler's Calming the Tempest
QS: Butcher's Leo ACEO (one page to go)
Mastrangelo's Easter Bunny (he's a companion to Buttercup Bunny which i finished last year)
Daydreaming Fairy
SK: Vacher's Automne
TT: Faulkner's Bo Peep
PTP: Mastrangelo's Bleeding Hearts and Tulips

beth

Anita

Hi, I just want to say hi to everyone here. I love HAED charts and am busy working on a number of them. I have finished one -- the Letter L and have 6 more in the progress of being done. I have a companion to the L with the Letter G and it is over half finished now. I am hoping to get them made into pillows for Hubby and myself.

I am also working on Wizard's Emissary and have nearly completed the first row of pages. I have Daydreaming Fairy which is part of the year long SAL on the forum. One of my favourite artists on the site is Ciro Marchetti. I have a number of his charts and am working on two. Ancient Eygpt and Peacock's Lagoon. The final chart that I am working on at the moment is Pink Daydreams. I have the first page done and it is on the back burner right now waiting for me to finish a few others.

The rest of my work in progress.

So glad I was able to join in on this blog. I have 2 haeds that I am currently working on. One is The Story Keeper (full sized one) and that was my very first haed. The second one I'm working on is Daydreaming Fairy with the sal. I'm so looking forward to getting to know everyone and seeing all the beautiful work that Haed stitchers do!! You are all such artists!!

Here are my 2 WIP as they sit:


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Daydreaming as of ~~~~~ Story Keeper as of
2-26-09 ~~~~~ 1-13-09