Lots of Photos!

Well, it is a dreary Saturday afternoon, and I have just been lolligaggin' around watching Movies on the Lifetime channel. I haven't even picked up a needle today, although yesterday I decided to work on The Abby, something that I have not picked up in quite a while. I am getting very close to finishing the first page. First of nine!

Well, my scanner is up and running! So, this will be a picture-full post! Hope you don't mind, and I hope blogger agrees with my agenda!

First off, I want to show my celtic knot bookmark:

This is just the top portion, I am using 318 DMC for the outline and I don't remember the number for the overdyed inside, but it is also DMC-Blue. On white 18 cnt aida.

Next up is my May Freebie. I have put alot of time into this just lately, mostly this week while lounging in front of the TV watching my daytime Television shows. I am hoping to finish it this weekend maybe. We shall see.

And Last, but definitely NOT least is the beginning portion of my Cheryl's Bouquet:

This is my "Masterpiece" at the moment. This is a really bad scan, though. I am working it on 18 count navy blue aida, and am colorcoding my pattern to use various colors throughout the piece, instead of using overdyes. I saw this on the Ink Circles gallery, where a woman did this with the CDC piece, and it looks awesome and thought, hey! That'd be so cool to do with Cheryl's Bouquet. So, I went off in search of the color scheme I wanted to use and here is the beginning. It makes it a bit more tedious, that is for sure, because I have to color in the pattern the way I think it looks best with the colors I've chosen and then stitch it. And that navy fabric is a bear to stitch on! But I like what I have done so far. I have started on one of the corners, but have yet to complete it and so will wait until I do, to show it.

Hope you have enjoyed this! And you can tell: I really DO stitch! I have been perusing the blogs of other stitchers, and I loved all their pictures and because of the scanner konking out on us I couldn't post photos! And I was jealous! I wanted to show my work too! Well, so there it is! Now I have a pretty picture filled blog once again too!

ANOTHER new start!

Yup, that's right! I couldn't wait and I put forth my first stitches into a Bouquet for Cheryl today! Now I'm only going to tell you that much until I am finished with the entire middle section of the piece then I will share a photo with you and you can give me your feedback...okay? Lets just say I am having a ton of fun!!!! This is a great piece! and I can't wait to see how it comes out! I can't wait to see Cheryl's (Life of bezza chezza) progress on it once she starts on it too, which may be awhile, since she is starting the other big ole' one...what's it's name? I just know it means Circus of Circles, in english....well, I think I know that, well, today is Friday so I should be sharing SAL photos, but my scanner is acting up, and I am not sure what is wrong or what so I have to have DH look at it later, then I will share photos, lets just hope it's nothing too serious! Well, I am off to go work more on Cheryl's pretty bouquet, at the rate I'm going I will probably have progress to share at the end of the weekend...it is a quick stitch! That is if my scanner doesn't have to get fixede or whatever...thank you for the comments, Cheryl, and Dani!