Monday, February 23, 2015

ISHW-ish Weekend Update

I had a kind-of-ISHW. Saturday was nothing but stitching until my fingers were numb. :-) It was lovely. I put on Les Miserabls, the new version with Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe. When it was released in theatres on Christmas 2 years ago, I went since I was spending Christmas by myself that year. I've finally added it to my movie collection!

I'm still in the spring-y spirit with my stitching, although I must get back to my Hummers HAED soon or I'll be very sad at the lack of progress this month. It's a double edged sword I feel. Maybe that's why I haven't ever had so many WIPs all at once. Oh well. I love them all and just kind of stitch what I feel the urge to stitch at the time.

Oehlenschlager Snow White came back out to play and Lystig (aka Happy) is now finished. Backstitching and all!!! I think I will continue backstitching each character as I finish cross stitching them as opposed to leaving it all for the end like normal. I even began stitching the tree with the cute little squirrel next to him.



Beauty and the Beast has seen some MAJOR progress the last few days. I swear it's going faster than it ever has before. You can now see more of Lumiere and Cogsworth and Belle's dress and the Beast's outfit are filled in some more. I am SO happy with how this looks right now. I'm dying to finish this page!!! Though I'm not looking forward, not one tiny little bit, to making a bazillion french knots... I'll ignore that for the moment.



YAY! It was a productive weekend, even with Sunday being filled with cleaning and cleaning and laundry and cleaning and laundry and........ I think you get the picture.

I'm praying that the first half (all the embellishments & specialty threads) of my Mira, Fairy Moon, show up in my mailbox when I get home! The second half (chart and fabric) should be here tomorrow. I hope. Like I need another WIP... haha! I'll probably force myself to wait until the weekend when I have some actual time to start this one. But we'll see....

Until next time!! :-)

20 comments:

  1. You made good progress over the weekend. Happy and Beauty are both looking fabulous!
    Good luck starting your new Mirabilia. There are quite a few stitchers around who will be starting this in the next couple of weeks so it'll be interesting to see how different stitchers progress and who finishes it first! :)

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  2. Fabulous progress on both of your WIPs, Happy looks so, well, happy! lol!

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  3. Awesome progress on both pieces Caitlin.

    Linda

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  4. Great progress so far! Don't you wish you could have an enchanted household that cleaned itself? *sigh*

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    1. Lol. Why yes, I would almost sell my soul for that.

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  5. Absolutely amazing progress on both projects. I hope your goodies arrive.

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  6. Great stitching and good luck with those french knots:)

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  7. Happy is cute, and you really made tons of progress on Beauty & The Beast - love it!

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    1. Thank you! I was surprised how much I did manage to get done.

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  8. Happy certainly does look as his name describes him.
    Beauty and the Beast is looking splendid.

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  9. Great progress!! Happy is just so cute ;)

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  10. Happy is darling, Caitlin, and I'm so impressed with your Beauty and the Beast progress!

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  11. Lovely stitching progress! I agree, it's more fun to backstitch as you go so you can see all the little details come to life :D

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  12. Wonderful stitches. Happy is very cute.
    Greetings, Manuela (I'm your new follower)

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  13. You're making such great progress, Caitlin! Don't you find that if you stick with a pice you get into a groove and it just flies??!

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  14. Thank you for stopping by my blog and your lovely comments! your snow white is very beautiful, allot of work and time has gone into it!

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  15. A lot of lovely stitching done. Happy looks great

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  16. So great to see all your progress on both your WIPs.

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