A Finish and a New Start

Well I finally finished my Cat in Window. I'll post a completed pic once out decent camera get repaired/replaced.

Yesterday I started on a new piece - Cancer Chesterton by HAED from the artwork of Lesley Anne Ivory.

The photo to the left if what I managed to yesterday afternoon/evening. It's really slow work as there is a lot of confetti in the first little bit. I have used 16 colours already and only done 200 stitches or less. This is what he should look like if I ever get him finished. I'm already looking forward to the second page - lots of DMC 939 so I can start to work through it quite quickly.

Cat in Window Feb 8th

I have managed to do more than I thought I would on my Cat this week. Managed to get a large chunk of the half cross on the upper left done and I have made a start on the back stitch as well (you can just about see it in the picture).

I'm hoping to get the rest of the half cross done this week but I have my driving theory test on Weds, plus I'm still looking after 2 extra horses so that may not happen.

I didn't realise until I started it but this kit has sooo much backstitch. It took me two or three or possibly even Fnarg (read the last issue of DWM and you'll get what I mean ;) ) days to to just the little bit in the top left, think it will take me a couple of week to do the rest of it. And I really hate doing it already!

Cat in Window Feb 1st'10

I finally completed all the full X-stich on my cat! Only half X and the detail to go now. There are lots of large areas of one colour on the top part so I hope to see it growing quite quickly now. I just hope I get time to work on it this week. The guy that I work for has asked me to look after his horses and Cats for the next 10 days which will take alot out of my stitching time :( But I do get paid £10 per a day for doing it so I can spand that on more Stash.

Cat in Window 18th Jan 2010

The latest update on this piece - I hope to upload a new photo about once a week to keep track of how much I'm stitching per a week.

This was taken this morning, it shows how much (or little, really) I've done in the 9 or so days since the last picture was taken.

The rug the cat is sitting on seems to be taking me a very long time, there are lots of colour changes and small areas of each colour to work. Hopefully once I have completed the rug I should be able to finish quite quickly. The rest of the back ground is worked in 1/2 cross so should be stitched much faster.

Cat in Window and Cross Stitch Talk

This is my current cross stitch WIP - Cat in Window from the Dimensions Gold Collection.

He should look like this once completed.

The photo is from the 9th of Jan and I have done quite a bit more on him since then, I must try and take a more up to date picture soon.

I can't remember when I started work on him but it must be quite a while ago now. I know I was working on him before my Scandinavian trip in November and pretty sure I was working on him before my US trip at the end of Sept. I'm guessing I've put about 6 months into him.

This is the 1st cross stitch that I have not stopped working on to work on something new and I'm determined to get him done before I start on something else.

I've been cross stitching for about 10 years now and only have about 15 completed pieces to show for it. I really want to finish a couple more in the next year and I really need to stat work on some unfinished items.

I buy lots of cross stitch stuff off ebay, just bought 6 new kits today (although a couple of them are really small). I know I will never have the time to do them all but I just can't help myself.