Progress Pics - A "J" is Made

I sooooo wish this weekend would not end. It was awesome. The perfect lazy weekend....well almost. Since school begins today for my son, I had to leave my couch to pick up some essential items **cough** school supplies**cough**.  Procrastination much?? Yea very much so. ;)

Besides that my weekend was great. I stayed inside with my boys and we ordered in food on both days. God bless those restaurants that deliver. Now enough babbling... on to the fun part of my post!

This weekend was International Hermit and Stitch Weekend hosted by Joysze at Random Ramblings, and Boy Oh Boy did I do that. I worked on three projects this weekend. Yes, 3! The first is my Nora Corbett "J" Fairy. It is so fun knowing that so many of you are a fan of this design and are enjoying my posts about it. I have a lot of followers whose name starts with "J".

 

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My goal this weekend for this design was to finish the "J" part of the design. Not only did I finish the stitching, I finished all of the beading and even re-beaded the very top where the flower is. Now all of my beading is correct. I'm really loving the earth tone colors of this design especially the predominant green colors. It reminds me of my birthstone. I am a May baby which makes my birthstone Emerald. The next part of the design is the fairy sitting on the "J". I will start on her this week...or at least try. Lately work has been dragging me down. All I want to do when I come home is just veg out in front of the TV and do nothing.

I also started stitching my Exchange piece for the Rotating Designers Exchange. I can't show or give any details yet except that it is a design by The Prairie Schooler. That is our chosen designer for this rotation. It is a cute design and I already know how I'm going to finish it. My sewing machine will be really grateful that it will finally get used after so long of being ignored. Actually the sewing machine will be thanking me more than that soon since I plan on working on a quilt or two in my near future. I love having a variety of projects going on. This way I don't burn out on one project.

I also began stitching the Tree of Stitches design by Abi at The Stitch Specialists Yahoo Group. I started stitching the tree trunk, but I haven't quite finished it yet. I'll make sure to post pictures of it on my next update.

Thank you for stopping by and an even bigger THANK YOU for your lovely comments. The encouragement from you wonderful bloggers is what keeps me motivated to keep creating.

Happy Stitching!
Jen