Kittens and Butterflies

Already did the backstitching on the first two butterflies, since they were basically isolated colour-wise.

We've got the first set of kitty ears peaking out there!

Beacon at Rocky Point

59 needles on this one! That's actually a lot more than I thought before I went and counted them.

The backstitching is really important on this one, especially on the house. There're a lot of details on the house that don't show up without it.

And omg all the French knots! They were all supposed to be done with two strands. Which looks fine, except I'm pretty sure that the picture on the front of the kit was only done with one. I mean, my French knots are pretty tight, but the ones on the picture were even smaller. I did switch the seagull's eye from 2 strands down to 1 though, because it just looked derpy with a huge eye!

I have to figure out now what my next piece is going to be. I thought I might do the Mario map next, but I'm kind of wanting to do another smaller piece. I'm going to have to dig through my (extensive!) stash and see what piques my fancy!

Golden Retriever Puppies

Just haven't felt like taking pictures lately, but I have been stitching. This piece took almost exactly 4 weeks from start to finish.

Pre-backstitching:

And post:

It's not the most striking of differences on this one, but it obviously does add some dimension to it. Back to the lighthouse!

Beacon at Rocky Point

Done a bunch of stitching, just really didn't feel like taking any pictures last week.

Over half done with the lighthouse (and as you can see, the lighthouse itself is already stitched).

Beacon at Rocky Point

And we're off! No rest for the wicked, and all that.

It was feeling like I was doing a lot of big stitches lately, so I wanted to take on something a little bit smaller for the next piece. I'm liking the colours in the clouds, they're looking pretty good. All the half stitches in the sky are a little bit annoying to deal with with the stitching style I'm using, but at least they take half the time!

Herb Wreath

It is done!

Wow, that was a lot of backstitching. But I keep telling myself it was worth it!

While I really like the end result of this one, I feel like it would have been a lot more enjoyable had the pattern not been so horrible.

But it's done now! On to the next one (which I may have already started last weekend when I just didn't want to do anymore backstitching for a bit).

Herb Wreath

Took the wreath off the frame temporarily to get the very top and very bottom text rows (since the scroll frame would have been in the way) and figured I my as well get a picture while I had the whole thing available. I'll go back to filling in the words on the top half once I get it back on the frame, then finish off the bottom. Some of the gold-coloured branches go over top of other backstitching, so they really need to be the last ones done.