Woo Hoo Finished :D

All Finished :D

Yay, I've finally finished my Me to You cross stitch. Its been a while since I've posted as I was more concerned about getting it finished then posting on here. Plus baby Theo was born 3 weeks early!! so I had to go an have cuddles for a few days, and it was my yearly trip to Blackpool :D 

I think I did quite well getting it done when I've been really busy at work as well, so it's been about 5 weeks since I've posted here is where I was at then, (if you cant remember or are new to my blog).

So I had most of the Tiny Ted stitched just his toy, the border, back stitch and all the many many french knots left to do.

Just over a week after my last post and a couple of days after Theo was born I had done tons of stitching and had managed to finished the design in the middle.

Doing all of the really tiny back stitches in this seemed to take forever and what was worse, I had french knots to do, I have always found french knots difficult to do, I had to have a look online just to remind me how to do them it had been that long.

With Theo arriving early I had less time then I thought to get this stitched i had planned to try and get it done for when I visited, but luck was against me with that. I did take it with me to do in the evenings whilst i was there, so it didn't take me even longer to do.

Because I don't want to bombard you with all my progress pictures (though I'm sure I'll do it on a separate page at some point), I'll just put up one more picture of my finished product that I finished last night.

I think this took me about 2 and half maybe 3 months to complete, (Next time I'll make a note of my start date).  The hardest thing for me in all of it was all the french knots. I had hoped I would have had the hang of them when i finished as there is so many of them with all the buttons. unfortunately i was wrong and i still hate doing them with a passion.

Whats Next...

Well I'm hoping to get stuck back in with my Pokemon project as it keeps staring me  from across the room, it has taken effort not to start it again whilst stitching my Me to You one. I'm also going to be doing a couple of mini kits as well so I don't feel like I'm not completing anything whilst doing the Pokemon one with it being so large.

Feedback

I would really like to know how you think my Blog's doing, I definitely class myself as a newbie and doing this so I would really appreciate any help or advice.

Thank you for reading :D

4 Weeks To Go!!

Finally get back on with the stitching!! It's taken me a while as I'm still playing games, but I've been stitching whilst I've been waiting for things on the game that way I get the best out of both worlds. I can play games and I'm still getting my stitching done :D

Over the past few weeks when I have actually decided I'm just doing to sit and stitch for a bit, I've just been too tired to do any and have just fallen to sleep!

Finished off the colour I was working on and I'm about to start the next. Thought I should update this first though seen as I haven't for a few weeks.

This is where I am at the moment.

Really do need to get on with the stitching now, I only have about 4 weeks to go. Need to make sure I don't get distracted looking at new designs as well, have definitely found a few for my wish list.

Stuck in a Rut

So I've hit that point where I've been distracted by games again. I have been doing some stitching in the evenings but no where near as much as I would have liked to have done. I've finished off my second colour of thread, which I managed to do pretty quick. I was actually on a roll with it all until my day off where I ended up cleaning (yes I know has to be done)and going to keep an eye on my parents dog.

Once the second colour was finished it looked like this:

You can really see where the bears features are beginning to appear in this picture. I'm half way through the third colour now, this is where I am now:

I'm hoping that once my free game time has run out I'm ready for stitching again. I really hope I can get out of this rut and get on a roll again and get some stitching done =]

Still had no votes on what I should stitch next, come on people I need your help!!

Me to You Catch Up

So, I'm about back on track with my stitching. I haven't been able to stitch as much as I've wanted to with just being too tired and not wanting to make any more mistakes. 

It took me a good few hours to unpick everything last time, (I did have a break for my tea as well though). I started up again straight away with not wanting to get too far behind. I've been stitching most nights for a couple of hours whilst watching TV, so it doesn't seem like a chore to do.

The biggest problem I've had all week is my thread snapping. Having to unpick so much has definitely weakened the thread. Fingers crossed I've reused all of that thread now so it should be plain sailing from now on. So this is where I am at the moment.

I've also been getting ahead of myself and looking at new projects for after this one, I've decided I'm going to do something Christmas related I'm just not sure what, so I would appreciate your ideas and I'll do the one that most people think =]

Baby Sampler

When my best friend found out she was pregnant I wanted to get the baby something special that they could keep as they grew up. so I decided I was going to do a baby sampler for them.

I am a big Me To You fan and I think the Tiny Ted pictures are really cute so I had already decided I was going to do one of those samplers. it was just a matter of choosing which one. Knowing how long it takes me to do projects sometimes I decided I would buy one before we knew the sex of the baby so it would be done in time. I could do the design then put the details on after baby was born, as it wouldn't take too long to do.

It actually took me a while to get started on the design as I was really hooked on my Pokemon project, but I finally got started on it completing one of the colour in hardly any time at all. I came to a halt after that being really busy at work and I ended up playing on the Xbox a lot, when I did have any free time.

Well time was counting down and I still had the majority of the design still to stitch so I thought I better get started on it again with less than 2 months to the due date. Over the past few days I have done quite a bit of stitching on it, I also realised that I went wrong quite a while ago so I've had to unpick loads and start again from where it's right.

This is where I am after all my hard work has been undone, you can just about see where I've unpicked the stitches.

I'm hoping to carry on with this and fingers crossed I don't go wrong again and I finish it before baby is born, as well as my Pokemon project. Hopefully I can get a decent amount done before it starts getting busy at work and I have no free time.

Pokemon Project

 

After finally transferring my photos from my phone to the laptop (which took several hours), I decided to post about my main unfinished project (UFO).

I decided to stitch the generation I Pokemon after seeing the link for the chart on a friends Facebook, after he started stitching characters and logos from games. Being a big kid and all that I decided that I'd give it ago. I'd never tried doing another other than an actual kit before, so for me it was quite a big thing. The hardest part was writing down all of the threads that I needed to order, 105 colours in total!

The pattern was created by Servotron, along with other Pokemon patterns that can also be found on the site, as well as many other game patterns created by many people. I started it in February stitching on and off between work, playing games and other UFO's. I'm currently on the 3rd page of the pattern (I decided to be difficult and stitch the Pokemon in order, so started from the last few pages of the design). I've not stitched any more of it for a while, I'm trying to focus on a baby sampler than I am stitching for my best friend's first baby.

I am planning on posting about my other UFO's as well as keeping you updated about my Pokemon one. I would appreciate any feedback, as I am new to this and would like to know where I am going wrong and what I'm doing well. I would also like to know what else you would like to see on here.

Under Construction

So I've decided to start doing a blog after suggestions from a few friends that I should after seeing some of my cross stitch projects.
Past projects will be posted at some point as well as my current ones.
Before then I want to sort the design out for the blog so it is a bit more personal to me.
Hope you like once its all sorted =]