SAL Jingle Lizzie Kate - june and july steps done with delay

I am very late in update this blog...

the truth is I didn't stitch too much and I am late in everything!!!

Let me see if I am at least able to update the blog with what I have done since August...

in August I also did this one

and in September this one

since then... this SAL has been completely forgotten by my needle... 

hope to pick it up again and finish it. I love these subjects and (at this point) I'd like to see them as decoration for next Christmas!!!

SAL Jingle Lizzie Kate - some updates

it seems August is the right month to make up for lost steps in this SAL. In the last weeks I have stitched these three ones above here.

I enjoy stitching them and they finish quite quickly: the right kind of cross stitch work I need in these days.

Hope to make up for the others: still need 3 too be "right" with the supposed program :-)

MMS July and August

Yesssssssssssss!!! I have even done more than what was required!!! LOL

The truth is that this work is perfect to be stitched when I am in chemio therapy at the hospital: it is simple, not too many colours... I can easily stitch it in the more than 6 hours I have to do in day hospital once every three weeks and in July I had 2 therapies... so I had a lot of time to dedicate to this SAL.

so, here it is, July and August stitched:

The theme of these two months was the sea... it isn't my favourite to tell the truth: I live at 9 kms from it but I never go there.
Even if this year I go more often, at least once every week, to have a walk and make some movement.
Yesterday I was there and enjoied this great sunset:

wasn't it worthy a photo??

MMS May and June

In the last days I finished May and yesterday I stitched June, a very fast month!

I made something different in June, I stitched Stella, my kitty, a few differences from the original cat. 

Look at her, isn't she exactly the same???

MMS April is here!

April's block is done!

Now I am working on May's one and I will be in line with the others of the group who make the SAL of Cuoreditela :-)

I am not stitching too much... even if I am at home and don't work. I can't concentrate on my xstitch work too long... so this is one of the few things I am working on...

MMS - March... at last

I am still trying to recover the lost months of my SALs...

At the end of April I finished the March box of the SAL organized by my friend Cuoreditela.

Ain't it cute???

SAL Jingle Lizzie Kate - second step

In March I did the second step of the SAL Jingle:

My cross stitch work had a stop in these months as I have been sick. I hope to make up for all the xxx I had to do now that I am better and have a lot of spare time being at home from work... ;-)

Mini Mystery SAL from Cuoreditela

a friend of mine has created a 12 steps mystery SAL and she is giving us a step every month.
I have finished the second one right now:

if you want to see her patterns, you can follow her here:

http://cuoreditela.blogspot.it/

it is in Italian, so if you need help, just ask me :)

a new SAL for 2014 - Jingle from Lizzie Kate

I am organizinga new SAL for this year, we are stitching the flip-its called Jingle issued from Lizzie Kate last year.

Each of us can decide wether stitching them as a whole work or stitching the single patterns.
I have decided to stitch the single patterns, I like the idea to make 12 decorations...

This is the first one, for the month of January... It is so cute!!!

Finished!!! at last!

last year I had organized a SAL on this two patterns, 12 steps to stitch them all within Christmas (2012). 

I wanted to do even better: my mom has her birthday on the 27th of November and I wanted it to be a birthday/Christmas present... 

Well, it will be... in 2013 LOL. it took me a little more to complete the stitching work... just 9 further months more or less. :D

But I am very proud of the result! In this moment the work is out to be framed and I am looking forward the moment the worker will call me saying it is ready and I can go and fetch it ;-)

I will show you also the framed version, when it will be in my hands!!!

Margaret Sherry SAL

with some friends we were planning to make a nice surprise to a common friend who has 2 twin daughters that will be soon 2 y.o.

she loves Margaret Sherry's patterns, so the choice was almost obvious

I stitched this (and have done it as part of the SAL):

and here you can see all the things we prepared for the two children:

Good Friends Listen - finished

In June I finished a few things but didn't have time to post here...

here there's my "good friends listen" finished. I decided not to stitch the writings because I had found this nice hanging support and thought it would fit better this way:

 

 

I still have to find the final destination for it on my kitchen walls, but I am waiting to choose it as in a few weeks I will have new furniture and I want to see how the kitchen will look like before taking a decision :-)

Mary Poppins SAL

I have found this fantastic Sampler on a fair a few weeks ago. 

I can't resist to Mary Poppins!!!

I bought the kit containing everything but the needle, so it was ready to be stitched.

and the occasion is a SAL that has started on a Facebook group on the 1st of May.

the first step is the border to be stitched within the 15th of May.

I am singing Mary Poppins songs all the time since when I have started to stitch it LOL

next SAL

this is not the only one I am starting in these days: it is a period I am willing to start so many thing! but I must be careful, as I am probably starting new UFO's LOL

this one is a small one, so I have good chances to finish it... let's hope it!

here's what I am going to stitch with two friends of mine:

it is the creation of an Italian designer and I bought it in March in a nice cross-stitch fair.
when I saw those nice buttons and pins I couldn't resist!!! and I discovered that 3 other friends of mine didn't resist too.
one of them has already stitched it as she couldn't wait for it.
with the other two friends we decided to wait for May and stitch it together.

Yesterday I cut the fabric: a nice blue hand dyed.

and on Sunday we will start to work with our Needles. we have planned 4 steps: each one of a week, so it should be finished by the end of the month...

let's hope it... I repeat it! :D

Official Crazy Cat Lady

finished!!!!
it was a 2012 SAL I organized with two friends and I enjoied very much stitching it.

here it is:

A Chatty SAL

I am organising this SAL in my Italian crafty blog.
It is born among friends who love so much to chat together! When we saw this pattern for the very first time we thought we could be these lovely hens that are going to have tea together while they friendly chat... LOL
And this year we finally decided to make a SAL of it!
We all bought our kit and we will stitch it in 4 months: a hen for the first three months and the rest of the pattern on the last one.
Here's the subject:

Isn't it nice???? :-)

The first step is to be stitched within february... let's stitch then!

UFO, Work in progress and... SAL!!!

This year I have decided to make a SAL in my Italian language creative blog dedicated to Margaret Sherry.
The goal (mine) is to pick up 2 UFOs from my UFO's box and work on them. Hopefully I would also like to finish at least one of them!

Some friends of mine joined, each one with one or more Margaret Sherry pattern to stitch during the year with me.
My UFO's are Calendar Cats and Stitch in Time.

Calendar Cats is a kit I bought in march 2007, started to stitch it the same day it arrived in my mailbox or the next day, made 2 cats out of 12 in a few weeks and... on the third cat I stopped stitching it...
Until the 1st of January.

I have this strange cross stitch tradition I created some years ago: on the last day and on the first day of the year I have to finish a work, start a new one and make some XXX on the works I would surely like to stitch during the new year.
So I made some XXX on Calendar Cats too.

And this was the situation until yesterday:

Today during the lunch break I have started working on it once more and I am soooo happy! It isn't an easy pattern, because it is filled with blended floss, half stitches either on diagonal, vertical and orizontal, many colours, X put halway compared to the "normal ones"...
It requires a lot of attention to stitch these cats, but how lovely they are! What wonderful colours they have!
I really hope to make a lot of XXX on the fabric and it would be great to finish it!!
But there still is a long way before thinking how to frame the finished work, so... for the present I will concentrate my efforts on January cat... trying to finish it (and the above part of the writings) by the 20th of February when the first step will expire...

The second UFO is Stitch In Time. I bought it in 2009, when I was looking for some fabric for a blanket secret project I was organizing with other friends for the birth of the first baby of a common friend.
I was surfing through sewandso site lookig for the fabric when I saw these two lovely mouses and felt in love... and the kit felt in the shopping carter along with the fabric for the blanket!

I replaced the aida of the kit with a piece of that fabric because I am seriously convinced that Margaret Sherry's pattens don't deserve aida.
And I couldn't resist and started stitching it as soon as possible!
On the 1st of January I stitched a few XXX also on this one and here's the situation:

the photo is orrible, but it gives the idea of how little is the stitched part...
I plan to stitch on this pattern when I will be too tired to stitch on such a complicated work as Calendar Cats, hoping it will grow little by little a bit more than what it did in the last 3 years!!!