The Suddenly Kate Show

I thought that it would be quiet over the Christmas period in blogger land - I couldnt have been more wrong...I only have 242 posts to read!

I am off out now but will be reading them later :)



I hope everyone had a good christmas and are looking forward to the new year, and to all those crazy people who are taking part in the January challenge or WIPocalypse...Good Luck!

 I have three things I want to start/finish next year...

The Geisha (deadline: March)Joan Elliot Calendar (as provided in the free diary that came with World of Cross Stitching, I will be hoping to stitch one each month during IHSW)Mirabilia; Lady of the Mist (no deadline)
Bye for now and look out for comments later :)
Kate x

Morning everyone!

Many thanks for all your lovely comments on my IHSW post - they are greatly appreciated.

I gave the cushion yesterday, and you were all right! She absolutely loved it - big sigh of relief.



I worked on Monday night for about 6 hours on the Geisha, but you wouldn't know it, filling in the gaps is very time consuming - so much so that I think I will have to aim to finish it for my mums 60th on March 7th - which is much more doable.  It is one of the problems when you have been working on a project for so long, I must have started it about 10 years ago! Good intentions and all that :) But many of those years I didn't stitch a thing. I think she would be great stitching from scratch - if anyone plans to - I chose her out of all the Geishas as she has so much colour, and I didn't want to get bored. The colours are much brighter than the photographs show them to be.

I am now finishing off a couple of ornaments that needed putting together and wondering what the next…

Hello Again,

Here are some updates...

1. I had started to stitch a small thing from Joan Elliots Wit and Wisdom book.



The original design was...


As tends to be the case, I didnt have the colours that the pattern required and so I used my own choice - not too different, and I think it works well.

2. I also worked on the Noahs Ark that had helped me  to get my mojo back...
Before IHSW...
After IHSW...

3. I worked on the Geisha girl and am hoping to get it finished by the end of this week. It is a bit bitty, due to the nature of my sewing style! 
Here it is before IHSW...

Here it is after IHSW...

Its hard to see which bit has been done, so here is a close up of the bottom left! Did you notice? lol!


Off to check everyone else'd updates :) and then back to stitching.
Kate x

Morning :)

I hope everyone is having a good weekend.  I am just quickly posting my horsey finish. As I mentioned before I decided to stick with the one horse, found the perfect cushion match and have now attached to said cushion and fringed away.

I am really pleased with how it has turned out - as it is for my friends birthday on Wednesday, and she has two horses I am hoping that she will like it.


Now off to finish off something else (I only stitched it this week :)) and then get on with working on another WIP.

Here are some pics of the horsey cushion....




Bye for now!

Kate x

Hello!

I have been reading blogs but not posting of late, but I have some things to finish before my next post.

I have been stitching intermittently and I decided to only stitch the one horse head (if anyone remembers that) , but I found the perfect cushion in a fabric much like a horse blanket -I just need to finish it all off to give next week :)


I also really started to enjoy Noah's Ark (didn't want to put it down) but had to put it down and start stitching on a small project for my Grandma. I will post a pic of my progress next time so you can see what I got done in a couple of evenings.

The quick stitch for my Grandma is taken from Joan Elliotts book Wit and Wisdom and I am about halfway done  - again I will post a picture next time.

I cant believe that it is IHSW already! I had completely forgotten :) It is very likely that my IHSW post will include all the updates mentioned here so might be quite long.

I better get on and finish of the gift piece and then focus on the finishi…

So after losing my mojo, I embarked on a new project. I started ok and as I mentioned previously mentioned the thread was the wrong colour.  I had decided to just carry on and I did. But when I got almost to the end I decided that I really didnt like it..so I frogged it and restitched it!!

My mojo might just be on its way back....here's a pic of what I got done yesterday after the frogging...

Its gone...my sewing/knitting mojo is AWOL! This is not the time for it to disappear on me.

If anyone finds it, please let me know! It was last seen on Friday 2nd December around 7pm GMT.

I am looking for it in everyone elses blogs as it sometimes hides there amongst the amazing pieces.