SK Effects of Caffeine - SAL Update 14

If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen the above photo already. I really love Randal Spangler's artwork!

Over the past 3 weeks, 696 stitches were added to my Heaven and Earth Designs Storykeep Effects of Caffeine cross-stitch project.

Page 3 (of 4) is 41.17% complete.
The project is 63.77% done.

This is how it looked on September 22nd.

Our next update will be on November 3rd.

Participants of this Stitch Along (SAL) each choose one project and share updates of their progress every 3 weeks. 

I hope you will stop in to see what everyone else is working on! We are in different time zones, so if you do not see a post, please check back later. For more details or to join, check in with Avis through the first link below.

Thanks for visiting!
Renee

Avis, Claire, Gun, Carole, Sue,

Constanze, Christina, Kathy, Margaret, Cindy,

Helen, Linda, Heidi, Jackie, Sunny,

Hayley, Megan, Deborah, Clare, Mary Margaret,

Jenny, Carmela, Jocelyn, Sharon, Daisy, Anne

TAST 2019 - Stitches 5 & 17

It has been ages since my last Take a Stitch Tuesday (TAST) post. I actually completed these stitches in June... (Learn more about the TAST challenge offered by Sharon Boggon at Pintangle.com through the link above.)

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This seam was added to a crazy quilted Valentine fabric postcard I am creating. It was created with two TAST stitches.

Stitch 5: Feather Stitches were added with a strand of green DMC S909 satin floss.

Stitch 17: Bullion Knot Stitches were added with #48 DMC size 8 variegated perle cotton floss to add flowers to a vine of feather stitches.

For this stitch, the right needle is very important. I struggled with these horribly before reading Sharon's tip to use a milliners needle. 


My 2019 TAST Progress:
Completed Stitches: 1-5, 7, 11 & 17
Need to Stitch: 6, 8-10, 12-16, & 18-36

Thank you for visiting!
Renee

October 2019

Well... I missed my August and September posts. Summer weekends fill up fast and the evenings disappear in a blur of laundry, making dinner, washing dishes, and spending a few treasured moments with my family. 

Thanks to the 3 week SAL hosted by Avis at Sewing Beside the Sea, I have managed at least one post a month. My travel project - SK Effects of Caffeine - is the only craft I have made much progress on, so there really has not been much more to share. I am working to change that!

October Goals:
1) Add 650 stitches to SK Effects of Caffeine. (The next update will be shared October 13th.)

2) Create a Christmas gift. 

3) Share a Take a Stitch Tuesday (TAST) post. (This post is already scheduled to post Tuesday morning. Is that cheating???)

4) Create a mug rug with the Halloween embroidery project shared at the top of this post. 

I am taking a break with my running goals because I tweaked my knee (not running) and am being nice to it right now. That being said, my son and I ran in the Salem Color Run on Saturday, September 28th and had a great time! 



Wishing you all an amazing month!
Renee

Fractal White Tiger September 2019 Update

The last few updates on my Charting Creations Fractal White Tiger cross-stitch project were shared on the Stitchy Start blog.

This is how it is looking now and I hope to make more progress in October.

The project is 20.58% complete. My goal is to finish pages 11 and 12 by the end of the year.

Wishing you all a wonderful week!
Renee

SK Effects of Caffeine - SAL Update 13

I am so excited the dragon is filling in so well! 

1,262 stitches were added since September 1st.

My goal is to add 650 stitches every 3 weeks. This would put me on track to share a finish on our August 2, 2020 SAL update.

This is how it looked on September 1st.

The spine of the book reads:

INVESTIGATING

THE EFFECTS OF

CAFFEINE ON

THE MIND

I. M. DRAGGIN

This Heaven and Earth Designs (HAED) pattern, based upon the artwork of Randal Spangler, may be seen here. 

It is the project I chose to work on for the stitch-along (SAL) hosted by Avis at Sewing Beside the Sea. We each select a project to work on and share an update every 3rd week. I hope you will visit the other bloggers to see the progress on their projects. We live in different time zones, so if a post is not up, please visit again later. Susan and Anne, welcome to the SAL!

Avis, Claire, Gun, Carole, Sue,
Constanze, Christina, Kathy, Margaret, Cindy,
Helen, Linda, Heidi, Jackie, Sunny,
Hayley, Megan, Deborah, Clare, Mary Margaret,
Jenny, Carmela, Jocelyn, Sharon, Susan, Anne


Thanks for stopping by!
Renee