The Suddenly Kate Show

So, I had it in my head that I would stitch some more of the Ed Hardy skull before I started any new projects BUT..yes, that inevitable BUT..I got distracted (who me?) and thought I would stitch a pumpkin for Halloween.

The pattern suggested Black or White 14 ct aida and 3 shades of orange, 2 shades of green and a black.  I didn't have black or white aida and the only colour I had from the list was black! Did I let that stop me? Noooooo!

I found some dark green aida that I had and decided that would be instead of black. I didn't have any orange DMC but I did have a random bunch of unknown make threads. A bright orange was waving at me and even a lighter orange, a dark green and a black.  I used a rust colour which I inherited from somewhere (ANC 1004) and selected at random two greens I did have. The light green is DMC 164.

Once I started I couldn't stop (even when I went a bit wrong, I just made it up) and am pleased with how it looks. What do you think? The colours are much…

This is what I saw around me on my way to work this morning...it was a bit creepy...end result was 26C by the afternoon.


...time to dig out a halloween design :)

I just wanted to quickly add my tuppence worth regarding this hoo-ha with Heather from Stitch in Thyme and the criticisms she had.

I too was shocked to find that she had been given this feedback! I have always been a stitcher but it has only been in the last two weeks that I have connected with people online and started my blog. I can honestly say that the people whose blogs I have read and who have commented on mine are THE nicest people and I have been surprised at how positive, nice, supportive and friendly they have been. I have joined a yahoo group and a forum and am now recognising peoples names and starting to feel part of it.

I have for the first-time (last week) stitched a design for an exchange. It is a small design and I just need to do the finishing before I post it..I was excited..but now I am not so sure!

As all of us stitchers know it takes a lot of time and dedication to stitch and finish something and I know that I would appreciate that more than the finishing. I also s…

I decided yesterday that whilst I was waiting for some linen to turn up and for October to start that I would start on the Breast Cancer Care Mandala.

I have done it on 18ct white aida and it is quite small and hopefully I will get it finished before next weekend.  It is also only 4 colours! I have also tried drawing on the squares (a new technique for me) and this will maybe make me less likely to go wrong. I picked the colours at random and as you can see from my picture below I have chosen to use quite a dark pink variegated thread. This is DMC# 99 . The pale pink of the bow is DMC# 225. and I am going to use DMC #962 for the darker outline. This thread will also be the colour of the other bows and the will have a dark outline in DMC# 3731. I am going to use it in a box lid and give it to my mum as she is a breast cancer survivor. Related articlesFit Quiz: Breast Cancer Factoids (fitsugar.com)

It has been 3 days since I changed over to wordpress from blogger and I feel like I have moved into a village from a town. I have finally worked out how to put an RSS feed onto this blog from my new one and of course I still stop by here to see what everyone is up to on my blogroll.

So I just wanted to give everyone a big wave!!

Apologies for the quality of the wave! lol

I have decided to switch back to wordpress.com (it has less glitches i.e.none) and I hope those who follow me will still do so there??  I have a big job ahead of me now and will work on getting it all sorted out tonight - ready for a  launch tomorrow. If you do decide to then click on the link above this post (My wordpress blog)

I am feeling positive as I have finished my Lizzie Kate Friends SAL exchange - yeah, I went a bit crazy with that one :) I am just waiting for Xeihua address to send it to her and then when she gets it, I will post a picture.

Also, this Saturday is girls night and I am giving the Mabel Lucie Attwell piece to my friend (I will post a picture of it framed soon) and I am nervous that she won't like it. Fingers crossed that she will though. It will also mean a night of laughing and talking about the hottest blokes on TV. They are supernatural fans and reckon that Dean  is much hotter this season (as opposed to Sam last season). I only started watching it this se…

Morning!

I just wanted to say thank you to Sara for replying to all my questions in a previous comment, if you are like me and obliviously unaware then check out her responses that are in the comments to my post entitled: Is it just me

Subsequently, I have joined a Lizzie Kate Friend SAL -so watch out for progress. All I need is a Lizzie Kate chart, lol! I do like the designs as they are quite simple and not swamped with confetti (check me out using stitching terms!).

I hope you all have a good day :)

P.S I have brought my Ed Hardy stitching to work...to do some in my lunch hour..in the church park!

I have just found a free chart for a lizzie kate design called Friendship grows at: http://www.lizziekate.com/free.html

and as it is small and sweet I will stitch that for the SAL, I may also try rail-roading it with traditional stitches! I might even change some of the flower colours - ;) If someone wants to join me, we can always make it an exchange?

Thank you Missy and Melissa for reassuring me that its not the end of the world if I use a different colour, refuse to unpick and just adapt a design and continue with my messy stitching.

I did feel quite guilty though and feel it is my 'duty' to at least try some rail roading (just to see how tedious it is - or therapeutic?) and maybe try traditional cross stitches only. I will continue with random designs though ;)

I haven't picked up my IHSW piece since Sunday afternoon and I feel that I need to get on and get it finished (otherwise it will end up a UFO and I don't want that!). UFOs only come about when we lose our stitching mojo half way through a project. It is usually a new project that gets us back into it again. I am vaguely aware of a naughty sprite in my head telling...no begging me to start something new! Seriously! Where exactly has common sense ran off to? the little blighter! I wont succumb though until I have finished the skeleton. I really wont (ahem).

So,…

I have just finished looking at everybodys projects for IHSW and I am in shock and awe.

Awe at the amazing projects people are working on and the brilliant results of a stitching weekend and shock at what a real stitching hermit I am!

What I mean by this is that, when is comes to cross stitching, I have realised I have pretty much been keeping myself to myself and hermitting away under a rock somwhere.

Why do I think this?

Well - I have been stitching since forever (about 30 years!!!!!) and it has never occurred to me in all that time (and I mean EVER) to mark the fabric with gridlines! Seriously, I saw some peoples work with the lines on and at first I was thinking it was waste canvas (that sometimes has blue lines on) and then I realised that the lines were there to guide the stitcher and make it less likely that they will go wrong. It makes sense, and is such a logical thing and yet it has never occurred to me - why not?  It does explain why I always have to unpick some part of every …

Im didnt quite manage to finish but hoprfully I will by next weekend.  Here is a picture of where I am up to:

Just thought I would check in and let you know that the stitching is going well - in a previous post I mentioned that I had changed my mind about what I would stitch and have deided to stitch a traditional tattoo design from Ed Hardys book. 



The tattoo I have chosen to stitch is..



You can see how far I am by checking out the slideshow in the sidebar. I am about half way and hope to finish it today providing I dont get distracted. I dont have all the colours that I need but I will substitute them with ones I do have and hopefully it will work out ok.

I hope that everyone else is enjoying their stitching and hermitting away :)

If you are unable to view my slideshow then plese see here: IHSW September 2011

Well in celebration of my first and only follower I have added a picture to my profile! Shocking.  I have also just followed all the people who are stitching this weekend as part of IHSW!! Yes! All 55 of them :)

I would just like to say that there are so many talented stitchers out there who have already produced such beautiful work that it makes me proud to be a stitcher.

This weekend is IHSW and I have been looking forward to it :) It is a great excuse to sew all weekend and when I tell people I am taking part in something they feel it is a more acceptable excuse.

So as my previous post says, I have decided to work on St Nick. Admittedly I have not yet started or today but about to (first day at a new job!) but I am just checking on my sky plus to see what TV shows I have recorded or will that will be keeping me entertained over the weekend whilst I sew...if youre interested in comparing them to your own.....



Rhod Gilbert & the cat that looked like Nicholas Lyndhurst (UK Stand-up Comedy)Vantage Point (Film)Trollied (UK TV Comedy - last in series)Law & Order: Los Angeles (US TV Season 1, episode 4 & 5)Happy Endings (US TV - Season 1, episode 2 - the pilot was a bit blah but I thought I would give it a chance)The Killing (US TV - Finale, but apparently the killer isnt revealed in this season)Criminal Minds (US TV - Season 6, episode 17)House (…

I have decided that for the IHSW this weekend I am going to work on one of my UFO's - most likely the St Nick one.

As a reminder and to save you having to go to my WIP page, this is where I am up to...




**STOP PRESS**

I have changed my mind - I know that I SHOULD work on this but just over a week ago I bought a cross stitch book called 30 cross-stitch patterns from Ed Hardy. They are cross stitch patterns for traditional tattoo designs. Admittedly there is nothing exciting but I am itching to stitch one of them! I have a weird fascination with tattoos and shows like Miami Ink, London Ink, LA Ink, NY ink and there is a vegas one too starting soon - ironically I dont have a tattoo, but I really wanna stitch one.  So it could be progress on the above of a tattoon :)





I havent had any luck in finding a snowman design that I like and I have begun to think that my only option is going to be to design my own. This idea works in theory but I am not the best at drawing so it will be hit and miss…

Good mid-morning!

So I saw a blog that mentioned IHSW (hosted by joysze) and I thought it would be a great way of getting me to focus on finishing some UFO's. I thought I might join with the intention to get something finished by christmas (I mean, I definitely have enough of them). I also have about 30 free kits from magazines that I could also do...so now to just choose!



I just need to sign up.........and then pick from something on my soon to be created work in progress page!

Oh dear - the link on the IHSW image in my sidebar doesnt seem to work, so please go to: joysze.blogspot.com and checkout all the details there (whilst I try and work out why it doesnt work :) )

I have finished the cross stitch project that I started last Thursday and I think that it has turned out ok.  I did make some changed to it - the biggest being the removal of the dots (I didnt like the fractional stitches that they used for them)  and it still looks ok.   I started it as a gift for a friend but then someone else made a comment and she might have it instead  - who knows.


Now I need to start looking for a good snowman design or commit to making the snowman hardanger. I also need to update the christmas house advent calendar and work out what to put in it this year and to improve the hotter or notter game I made for the girls last year.

Here is a pic of my finished picture - what do you think? Not bad eh?

I went to Devon in June and visited Torre Abbey, I really enjoyed the gardens ( I am an old woman trapped in a pre-early/middle aged womans head) and loved taking photos of the flowers.  Some of which I would like to make into a collage and stitch. Here is a collection of my favourites..

I like this post - not because it has an profound or groundbreaking observations but because it was funny to discuss a film with someone who hadnt seen it yet they managed to make me reassess my first impressions of it.
Image via Wikipedia I just had a conversation via messenger with my friend about the film Nick and Norah's infinite playlist and it went like this:
It's not the best movie ever, and maybe doesn't even make a good rating. but its ok, not a lot happens and it's not that funny either. am i selling it?
haha you're so selling it!
there is a hideous sick in the mouth moment - but it is quite sweet. in an odd way.
haha
not that sick in the mouth moment tho - other moments
but it is the most pointless movie title ever.
I think i started watching online a couple of years ago late at night and fell asleep
it has an indie kinda feel and quite arty teeny. the more i think about it the less real meaning it has, the story doesn't flow particularly well and it has typic…