I need to do more beading:
But she is progressing
Fire Goddess feels relatively fast compared to Pearls
The backstitch really does make a difference…
Bits and bobs of fire goddess and pearls….
June 7, 2011 at 1:25 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: fire goddess, Joan Elliot Designs, mermaid of the pearls, mirabilia, wip
So shiny…
June 1, 2011 at 3:27 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: mermaid of the pearls, mirabilia
There are more beads and things… and shock of shocks, another post within a couple of days!
I have been so bad about posting…
May 25, 2011 at 3:02 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: mermaid of the pearls, mirabilia
Last year I uploaded and posted most days, and have about 400+ photos of WiP pics on photobucket….
This year I have about 50 so far!!!
Mermaid of the Pearls is progressing, if very slowly. I am up to the point where I can start to see progress, and that she is actually looking more like she should.
I have spent a portion of tonight colour coding my working copies. White is now mostly coloured in on the top half of the pattern. It does make the pattern easier to read, I think.
Most of her skin is done. Now it is filling in the sparklies around it. I pulled out my thread heaven, which I think will help immensely!
Here she is with a flash:
And no flash:
Perseverence…
May 19, 2011 at 11:59 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: mermaid of the pearls, mirabilia
Produces….
A FACE!!!
A few different things…
May 13, 2011 at 2:44 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: fire goddess, Joan Elliot Designs, Lily, mermaid of the pearls, mirabilia
You may remember I started Mermaid of the Pearls quite a while ago… She sat looking like this for a long time:
After tonight she now looks like this:
She is the most annoying mermaid to stitch. I am not sure why, but I am not enjoying stitching her as much as I did Waiting for Ships, or Mermaids of the Deep Blue. There isn’t the same colour flow I think and so you are jumping here, there and everywhere with colours.
And here is an update on Lily – she is a very slowly progressing WIP simply because she may only get 20-40minutes every time I am at work:
Loving Fire Goddess. The ball of fire in her hand is gorgeous:
A little more of her skirt is done too
She looks evil!!!
June 14, 2010 at 12:36 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: Joan Elliot Designs, mermaid of the pearls, mirabilia, Water Goddess
Water Goddess now has half a face and just looks WRONG!!!
I will try and finish her face tomorrow as it looks bad half done.
I did about another 100 or so metallic braid stitches on Mermaid of the Pearls – Thread Heaven makes an ENORMOUS deference on #8 braid.
Mermaid, stash and floss toss…
March 1, 2010 at 1:08 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: hdf, mermaid of the pearls, mirabilia, stash
Mermaid of the pearls – just a little bit more
My HDF order arrived finally – random flosses earmarked for certain projects:
And my floss toss (sans skin floss) for Waiting for Ships on Heaven Lee Creations Seascape blooms:
Pretty in pink and purple…
February 26, 2010 at 12:13 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: mermaid of the pearls, mirabilia
Grrr….
February 25, 2010 at 11:52 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: mermaid of the pearls, mirabilia, silkweaver, stash
My order from HDF still hasn’t arrived. Its most distressing, especially considering my order from Silkweavers, that was posted 2 days later, arrived today. I guess the Snowpocalypse on the NE coast may have disrupted the mail… I bought a grab bag from silkweaver, which turned out to be more 28ct than anything, but hey, it gives me a selection of colours to play with, including 4 13×18 inch pieces to choose between for Nora Corbett’s Lily Pixie.
Mysteries:
And a fat quarter of Starquest 28ct on jaszlyn fabric:
I actually like this dyelot better than the official piece I deliberately bought… shame its 28ct. So much prefer 32ct.
Maybe the HDF will arrive tomorrow.
I pulled Mermaid of the pearls off the stand tonight for two reasons:
1. I actually wanted to make some decent progress on her fin and 2 handed stitching at this stage is SLOW for me
and 2. my mad cat was using the stand for target practice. I caught him leaping up and clawing the fabric. BAD CAT!!!
So anyway, here she is:
Her fin in real life is actually quite pale. For some reason it photographs really brightly.
