Fairy Celebration

Here's my finished Fairy Celebration, she's a freebie from Passione Ricamo.  Stitched on 14count raspberry aid with DMC white and Madeira Metallic Silver.  I'm not keen on the Madeira Metallics, they don't seperate easily and are very thin.  There's also the problem of what to do with the piece you cut off from the long thin packet.  With DMC I use Floss-a-way bags and put the cut-off piece back in the bag (with standard threads I tie it through a piece of card cut from a thread sorter and put it back in the bag.)

She is a gift for my niece who has just had a baby girl.

For those who aren't aware, I have a feature on my blog where I post the contents page of each magazine I buy.  This is to help people decide if they want to look for the mag themselves (I don't post the charts).  The new edition of Cross Stitch Collection has been added today.  Come and have a peek at Serendipitous Stitching!

A Faerie Finish

Teresa Wentzler's Autumn Faerie is beaded and ready to take to the framing shop. This project has taken nearly two years to complete ... mainly because I'd set it aside for other projects that caught my fickle fancy. But as it neared completion, I began to worry that the chart might have been misleading in calling for only one package of lavendar beads. If anyone wants to know what relief looks like, take a look at the second photo of 42 lavendar beads left in the beading dish after the last bead had been set. While I have stitched several companion pieces to the Autumn Faerie, namely the Spring Faerie and the Lily of the Valley Faerie ... I am not certain I will ever stitch the two remaining faeries in this leaflet, i.e, The Summer Faerie and the Winter Faerie. But I may change my mind so I am holding onto the leaflet. I have already started my next Teresa Wentzler BAP, Tracery Dragons. I just haven't gotten far along enough with that project to warrant a photo ... maybe next week

Only the beading is left ...

... on my Teresa Wentzler Autumn Faerie. I had hoped to be a bit further along on this project at this stage. My goal was to have it ready for the framer tomorrow but clearly, that's not happening. But, perhaps by the end of the long Memorial Day weekend, it will be complete.

Next up is Teresa Wentzler's Tracery Dragons.

Autumn Faerie Progress shot

I have dubbed the fourth day of the week Wentzler Wednesday and devote each Wednesday to my current Wentzler BAP. This will continue even after the Autumn Faerie is fully stitched and at the framers. Coming up in the rotation are Wentzler's Tracery Dragons [for me] and her Woodland Angel Christmas Stocking [for my grandson Liam]. I hope to finish the cross-stitching on Sunday and devote the rest of next week to beading. The goal is to take it to the frame shop on my day-off next Friday. Section IV has been the easiest section to stitch because there is less confetti stitching. Though there have already been 16 color changes in this small area, there are more stitches of any given color as the colors flow down the folds of the skirt. This has made the counting ever so much easier than in the wings and apples.

What a wonderful idea!

I am delighted to join this blogging group since faeries, dragons and mermaids are among my favorite stitching themes.

My current BAP is Teresa Wentzler's Autumn Faerie. This BAP was started in Autumn of 2009 but had been languishing untouched for nearly 18 months until I came up with the notion of Wentzler Wednesday: one day every week devoted to working on my faerie. Once I began to see real progress, I was unable to put it down. Most Wentzler Wednesdays have stretched into Thursday and sometimes, even into Friday. In any case, here is a recent photo.