This year is the year of the dragon, so of course I needed a new start with a dragon! But that is not all the new starts that I had in the past three weeks. I have stitched over 14000 stitches on 6 projects and gotten some really good progress. Btw I totally missed to write a corresponding blog post to my last video, but let’s continue on like that didn’t happen.
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Works In Progress (WIPs)
COZY CAFE
This project was started in April of 2023 and I really want to have it finished before April 2024, so I have put in 8 days of stitching in the past three weeks and will return to it either later this month or in march. I am skipping the beading for now and will add the beads after I finished stitching, washed and ironed it,
DETAILS:
Pattern: Cozy Cafe by Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery
Fabric: 16ct Dirty Aida by Zweigart
Stitched in charted DMC 2 over 1
GAMER NOUVEAU
This was started in March of 2023, and as with all of my full coverage stitches I wanna get some good progress this year. So for #fullcoveragefebruary I’m doing 500 stitches per project per letter allocated in the acrostic CONFETTI. Gamer will be stitched on 2 times for a total of 1000 stitches for the letters N for Nouveau and E for gamEr. So far I have stitched 500 stitches.
DETAILS:
Pattern: Gamer Nouveau by Gecko Rouge
This is no longer sold by Gecko Rouge. The artist is selling it on her own etsy which you can find here: https://etsy.me/3vTXUKP
Fabric: 25 count Easy Grid Evenweave by Zweigart
Stitched in charted DMC 2 over 1
CHRISTMAS HOUSE 1
This is my oldest full coverage project, started in 2018, and I would really like to at least get to 30% this year. For the acrostic CONFETTI this project will be called 3 times. For C as in Christmas, for T as in roofTop and for I as in Ice sickle. So far I have stitch 500 stitches on it.
DETAILS:
Pattern: Christmas House 1 by Artecy
Fabric: 25 count White Evenweave by Zweigart gridded with fishing line
Stitched in charted DMC 2 over 1
MINI SUNSET OWL
I started this freebie in October of last year when joining in with a SAL. For the acrostic CONFETTI this is called for O as in Owl, F as in Feathers and T as in Talons. So far I have stitch about 600 stitches, 500 for O and 100 for F.
DETAILS:
Pattern: Mini Sunset Owl by Artecy (out of print)
Fabric: 25 count Potato Evenweave by Zweigart
Stitched in charted DMC 2 over 1
New Starts
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD PARADE
While on retreat, I believe that I have the right to have a new start. And as I enjoy traveling with Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery projects, I dived into my folder of patterns, and decided on the Red Riding Hood. Maybe to give as a gift to niece. The colors really pulled me in and I knew that this would be a great new start.
DETAILS:
Pattern: Little Red Riding Hood Parade by Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery
Fabric: 16 count Dirty aida by Zweigart
Stitched in charted DMC 2 over 1, color converted Classic Colorworks Licorice Red to DMC 107.
DRAGON RIDE
When I saw the #yearofthedragonsal on instagram I new I just had to join. I have had the kit for the Dragon Ride laying around since 2016 and I have always prioritized other projects before this. But I love it so much and I could just stitch on this all the time!
DETAILS:
Pattern: Dragon Ride by Teresa Wentzler (out of print)
Fabric: 28 count antique white evenweave
Stitched in charted DMC according to chart
Marika Stitches 