Welcome to the Slow Sunday Stitching weekly linkup party! If you like to stitch things by hand, you have found your tribe! Each week there are stitchers around the world who share their projects and progress (or lack thereof) to encourage and inspire us.It has been a very busy week here with getting new shingles on the house during the hottest week of the year. On Monday with the humidity it felt like 44 degrees Celsius - which is 111 degrees Fahrenheit!! But no one fainted or fell off the roof, and somehow they completed the job.
This week I started a Modern Folk Embroidery project called "Quaker Medallion - Bird in a Grapevine". I am using DMC floss #4515 to stitch on Roxy's porcelain 18 count fabric and I'm really enjoying it! It has been fun to experiment with the variegated thread and I'm trying to make the centre bird from the darkest parts of the thread.
I have also being keeping up with the Extraordinary Birds SAL by Lola Crow.
It is such immersive stitching and I am "losing" lots of time in this project! I love the enormous Southern Cassowary bird on the left! So far I have stitched 10,426 stitches which was 98% of the total number of stitches before Friday. This week we were given a new part to stitch and this step includes a Toucan. So fun!What are you hand stitching this week? Please share your projects with us in the link up below!
3 comments:
I love how the cross stitch picture slowly emerges as more stitches are added. It’s like the fog is lifting and you can see more clearly. Stitch on!
I'm so glad to have found my tribe! Your Quaker Medallion piece looks like a lovely one, and I really like the variegated floss you're using, too. I haven't tried a Quaker style design yet, but I sure want to. Enjoy your stitching today, Kathy!
It is so interesting to me that you know the exact number of stitches. I doubt that is something that I will ever know with my work.
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