July IHSW

Hey Blog Buddies,

Hope you all had a groovy July weekend.  Well, another IHSW (International Hermit and Stitch Weekend) has come and gone.  I didn't get that much stitching in Friday through Sunday for various reasons, but I "cheated" and made up for it this morning.  However, I'm sure that Joyce at Random Ramblings will forgive me.  (heheh)

First up is the ornament for the

Halloween 2013 SAL.

This month's theme was bats/spiders,

so I chose Sweetheart Tree's

Itty Bitty Kitty - Halloween design.

The design is very small, and it's a good thing

because there were quite a few

quarter stitches and backstitching.

You'll notice it's not ornamentified yet.

I was definitely not in the mood to do that,

but it needs to get done before I start

the August ornament.

 

Then I decided to dust off my canvaswork pumpkin--

it's been on hiatus since shortly after the workshop.

 

Here is another case of the photo

not even coming close to doing the piece justice.

It's hard to make out the sparkly orange Treasure Braid,

the olive green Burmilana wool

and the burgundy Petite Very Velvet threads,

but they're there, and this little section

looks fantastic in real life.

It's right at the tip of the middle "football."

There are five adjoining football shapes which,

when finish-finished, will make up

a 3-dimensional pumpkin.

I'll be working on this piece all week,

so stay tuned for a more detailed update on the whole thing.

 

That's it for now.

Click on over to Random Ramblings to see

what the other hermitters were up to this weekend.

Thanks for organizing this, Joyce!

 

And thank you for visiting

and leaving your kind comments!