Princess Bubbles Creates

I am pretty pleased with myself.  I have managed to stay up to date with commitments and challenges.  No easy feat with having had a three week holiday on the other side of the world!  Admittedly, this stitch a day project got a bit stalled.  I took a package of silk threads with me on holiday.  They had been languishing for years and I decided it is time to use them.  I started stitching with said silk threads at the beginning of the month.  After about a week I realized there really isn't enough color variety for me.  They are all light in tone and for a work to pleasing there needs to be darks and mediums.  When I got home I dug out more silk threads and continued stitching.  Stitching silk threads onto silk fabric was lovely. I am linking with http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.ca/

This is my stitch a day project for February.  I am so pleased with it.  It makes me happy to look at it!  I have been stitching for March as well but I am a bit behind.  I don't have much on my calendar for the next couple of days so I am hoping to get caught up and post about it next week.  There are a number of projects that I am behind on doing.  I am trying to not let that bother me. I am linking with http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.ca/

Top photo is my progress on stitching everyday.  I am loving it! Bottom photo I added the Basque stitch to my butterfly.  Thanks to   Sharon B   for showing us this stitch!  Sharon is amazing!  I have learned so much from her! Happy Valentine's Day!

Sharon B  shows us the Fancy Herringbone Stitch this week.  I have not tried this stitch previously and gave it a go, top photo.  However I stopped one step short of actually completing the stitch.  I have a  couple of reasons for that.  First, I like way it looks as is.  Second, the third step is to loop thread through the crosses and I find looping difficult to get right.  Not only that but even if I do get the looping even/correct it can move around after I am finished. The second photo is my January take a stitch a day project.  The goal was to do 31 different flowers.  Not all of the flowers are different but I did learn some new things and I am pleased with this piece.  I had fun doing it.

Today Take a Stitch Tuesday has started again.  Unfortunately, the stitch didn't work with my flowers and I didn't have time to do stitch it on something else.  My January flowers are making me so happy!  What a great way to counteract the winter blues!

Flowers are so cheerful.  It is a delight for me to stitch a flower each day. It was absolutely brilliant of me to think of doing flowers in January!  There is only fourteen more flowers to be added to this.

Oh, 2017 is going to be full of creativity!  I have signed up to participate in numerous projects.  I have joined a group that is taking a stitch everyday.  I have cut 12 six inch squares to do this stitching upon.  My guild challenge is working on six inch squares and it feels achievable each month so I thought I would do the same for this challenge.  I went through my stash of experiments to find the base into which I will stitch.  The piece above is a clean up cloth.  I have stitched three flowers.  My intention is to stitch 31 flowers for the month of January.