Robin Redbreast

He is done!

And with plenty of time before Christmas.

I'm going to try to find an appropriately-sized oval hoop for this one for finishing.

Robin Redbreast

When I'm stitching, I'm so close to the piece that it doesn't look the best: I notice every little inconsistency between stitches, and the light I'm using doesn't help as it really makes it obvious where the threads aren't lying at precisely the same angle (read: all of them). I've got to remember to zoom out more often like this so that I can actually see the picture!

When I first tried out this method of stitching from a text file, I was able to stitch about 10 pages in a day. I think I might be getting faster at it though, because yesterday I managed about 14 pages, and it wasn't even a full day!

We're also almost done with this one, I'm hoping to have it done this week sometime.

Robin Redbreast

Got a good chunk done this weekend, and all the orange is officially finished, which means I can take it out of my pile of active floss to make it easier to find other colours!

It feels like I didn't actually do that much (only 24 rows!), but then I compare the actual pictures from the before the weekend and after, and it turns out there's a lot of picture in 24 rows!

Robin Redbreast

All the orange/red on him is done (I'm pretty sure). Now we've just got the bottom half, which is kind of uninteresting compared to the top. Oh well. Pretty sure I'm still on track to finish before Christmas, as long as I don't keep getting caught up with knitting projects!

Nap Time, Robin Redbreast

I started this piece in February - I know this because it replaced Blow Bubbles as my work lunch project. She's been done but for backstitching for a while now, and I finally decided this weekend I was going to pull her out and finish her off.

I got some work done on Robin this weekend as well, and he's half-way done! I think I'm only a couple rows away from being done with the oranges, then it's just going to be a lot of blues and browns to look forward too.

Pretty Roses, Robin Redbreast

I picked up a selection of magazine freebie kits from the thrift shop a month or so back, and they were perfect for making sure I didn't fall asleep at my work conference! I only ended up getting the one done, which I picked because it was the most aggressively pink of the lot and wanted to get it over with. I was having trouble getting a picture of the finished stitch that wasn't either very yellow or very blue, so this'll do for now.

Also got a bunch done on Robin this weekend. He's really coming along. I'm pretty sure I'm already done with at least one colour.

Robin Redbreast

And we're back!

Not too much progress in the last month, but that's because I've been working on something else for the last little bit. Now that that project's done though, back to the stitching!

I'm kind of hoping that this will be done by Christmas; DH actually likes this piece, so I thought I'd have it ready as a Christmas present. We'll see how it goes.

Robin Redbreast

Well, here's the top 30 rows of this piece. The nice thing about it is that there's no backstitching at least, so once all the crosses are done, that's it!

I picked up this pattern from the thrift store, and whoever had surrendered it had already kitted it up with floss (though no aida). I bought it because it was worth it for the floss alone, but when I brought it home DH said that he liked the piece, so I decided to make it for him.