Latest Finishes

I have another finish to show today. I stitched a hardanger card for my mother’s birthday. This one is the February edition of Nordic Needle’s hardanger card club from 2010. Their kits included the design, card and pearl cotton #8 equivalents. Needless to say, I didn’t want to do the weaving with pearl 8, so I’ve been slowly buying the pearl cotton #12 or floss equivalents to go with each kit. I have less than half of them kitted up to date. I’ll have to do some online purchases to fill in the blanks.

This is the first one I’ve actually stitched out of the 12 kits, though I do plan to stitch them all and send them out for various stitchers’ birthdays. Eventually.

Here is the card and a closeup of the hardanger section. I chose a pale yellow fabric with which to back the hardanger section, so the picots don’t show up very well. I hate picots. Truly. Hate. Picots. And, as you will see, the woven section of this design consisted primarily of picots. Ugh.

My other finish to show off is long overdue. It is my framed The Sweetheart Tree round robin. I picked it up weeks ago, but getting a good picture of it has proven to be difficult. I had to do some fiddling in Photoshop to get the colors a little closer to the real hues. It’s still not perfect, but I would have to put a lot of time into it in order for it to be precise and even then the colors still might not be exact, so I’ll settle for what I have.

This counts as my final Not-So-Crazy January Challenge finish, as I got it to my framer at Michaels just before the end of January. On a side note, I actually saw my framer at Michaels when I was in the other night and she joked that I didn’t have anything with me to be framed. No, I’m actually all tapped out until I finish some other pieces. That is really hard to believe, but fantastic to be able to say!

Anyway, back on topic. Here is the framed round robin:

I hope that you are all having a wonderful weekend. The temperatures here are quite nice today, although we are lacking in sunshine. The clouds don’t surprise me, as we are expecting rain storms to move in for tomorrow. Just in time for my cousin’s bridal shower. At least we’ll be inside!