O´holy night calendar finished

I have been away the last 2 weekends with some friends from my stitching club. Last weekend I was in a summer cabin in Flúðir with Lára, Sveina, Hafrún, Guðbjörg and Ásta and this weekend I was in a summer cabin in Húsafell with Linda, Rósa, Guðbjörg, Aiste and her little daughter Amelía. Thanks girls, I had a great time with all of you!

My main project both weekends was the O´holy night calendar by Dimension which took more time than I thought it would. I wanted the words to be in Icelandic so I translated O´holy night into Helg eru jól and charted it last Thursday night and stitched it Friday night as soon as we arrived at the cabin. And now it´s finally finished. Yay, I´m so happy!

 O´holy night by Dimension
Stitched on 14 ct aida

 The rest of the weekend was spent stitching the little ornaments to hang on it. I had already finished 2 of them and now I have finish 5 more. I hope I´ll be able to finish all of them before December 1st.

Ornaments stitched on plastic canvas

My first Round Robin

I joined a group on Facebook called World Wide Round Robin and decided to do my first one. We are 6 in my group and will each stitch a picture on each others RR. We are 2 from Iceland, me and Sveina who is in my Icelandic stitching group Allt í kross, Kathryn and Cindy are from UK, June is from Scotland and Ruwani is from Australia. So my RR will travel half way around the world.
The first picture is stitched by it´s owner and here is a picture of mine. My theme is Cute Christmas.

Country Companions pattern from WOCS
stithed on 32 ct Belfast Linen Vintage blue

And here is a picture of my fabric. I stitched my picture on the top middle square. When it will return home to me every square will be stitched by these wonderful ladies. Can´t wait to see it finished.

 

Counting House

I visited my friend Hafrún last Saturday and I took this piece with me. While I was stitching I suddenly felt the urge to finish it and decided to put my calendar on hold in the meantime. And here you can see the finished result.

Counting House by Little House Needlework
Stitched on 32 ct linen with DMC, GAST and WDW

QS Red Poppy

August 6th I started a new HAED – QS Red Poppy. I really love working on her and have hardly touched anything else since then. Now she´s finally got an eye so I think it´s time to post a picture of her.

QS Red Poppy – HAED – stitched 1 over 1 on 28 ct

After the first weekend – just couldn´t put it down

Since September is almost over I think it´s time to pick up the O´holy night calendar again. I promised my daugher to have it finished before December 1st.

And speaking of my daughter. It´s her birthday today and she just turned 9 years old. This picture was taken very early this morning when she was opening her birthday present. She really loves Littlest Petshop so of course that is what she got – and lot of it.

Finally 2 pages finished on R&J

I finally managed to finish 2 pages of Romeo and Juliet. As you can see Romeo´s wing is coming along very well and I´m so close to starting on his head. I´m getting really excited about that!

Last weekend I participated in July-Stitch-A-Long on Facebook and managed to finish the wing on November Topaz Fairy. The picture doesn´t do it justice at all. Still all the back stitch is left and will be done later.

Stitching during my holidays

I´ve been on holidays for the past 3 weeks and I will return to work later this week. I have been very active at the gym but not so at stitching.  But here are some updates.

I promised my daughter to finsih the O´Holy Night Calendar from Dimension before next Christmas. I have been working hard but all the stars are making me crazy. Now there are only 12 left! Can´t wait to have them all done!

Last weekend I had the urge to start something new and take a short break from the calendar. My choice was between Petal Fairy, Bliss Fairy or Topaz Fairy, all by Mirabilia. I finally decided on Topaz Fairy. It uses a lot of Kreinik which I don´t really like stitching with but the effect is so stunning. Here is what I´ve finished so far. It´s not  much since the Kreinik slows me down a little.

Stitched on 32 ct opalescent Lugana – Pink Shimmer from Silkweaver

Dragonfly

I have been very lazy latelly when it comes to stitching. I decided to pull myself together this weekend and work on the dragonfly I started like a month ago. It´s the second in the Garden Party Series. Last night I was determined not  to stop until I was finished since there was so little left.  And I dit it!

Ladybug

I just got the Garden Party series last week and couldn´t resist to start on the ladybug. Needless to say I couldn´t put it down and here is the finished result.

Ladybug ‘Garden Party Series’ from Country Cottage Needlework
Stitched with Crescent Colours on 32 ct Belfast Linen Flax

As you can see on the top right corner I have already started another part which is the dragonfly.

Hearts, wing and sheeps

I want to show you the progress of my HAED Romeo and Juliet. I´m almost done with 2 pages and this is getting more and more fun to stitch even though it´s going very slowly. As you can see the hearts are done and Romeo´s wing is coming along great. Can´t wait to start on his head.

Stitched one over one on 28 ct evenweave
12.000 stitches done

I have also been stitching Counting House by Little House Needlework. I´m more than half way done so I should be able to show you a finished piece soon. I translated one..two to Icelandic ein..tvær. Please notice the little owl in the tree. I think she is so cute.

Counting House by Little House Neddlework
Stitched on 32 ct Belfast Linen

Happy dance and more

I finished my Needlework Shop last night. I decided to finish it before starting on something else since I had so little left. I´m really happy with how it turned out.

Needlework Shop by Country Cottage Needleworks
Stitched on 32ct Natural Belfast Linen with DMC

I have been working on The Peacock Stitching Chair by The Cat Whiskers. The plan was to finish it last week and put it together last weekend at Linda´s house. She was holding a finishing camp at her house where the ladies in our stitching group Allt í Kross could come over and get some help making something out of stitched things. Unfortunatelly I wasn´t able to finish all the parts and the chair is still not ready. I´m not ready to put it away though and will try to work on it this weekend. Here are the parts I´ve already done.

The last picture is of my progress of Romeo and Juliet by HAED. I haven´t been stitching it a lot lately but over 6000 stitches are already done.

Weekend away

This weekend I left the city with few other stitching mad ladies from my stitching club. We went to a cabin in Húsafell where we had a lot of fun, ate good food, laughed a lot and did a lot of stitching.

I had already started Romeo and Juliet by HAED and this is where I was at the beginning of the weekend.

And this is where I was at the end of the weekend.

I also did some stitching on The Needlwork Shop by CCN. Here you can see me working on it.

Snow Fence

I wanted to stitch something that wouldn´t take too much time. I browsed through my stash and finally decided on Snow Fence by Raise the Roof Design. It took me several evenings to complete but here it is without buttons.

Stitched on 32 ct Ice Blue Belfast Linen
with Weeks Dye Work

Completed with buttons from Just anotther button company

Late last night I managed to finish 4th in the Lizzie Kate series 12 Blessings of Christmas – friend. The word is in Icelandic.

Snowman Trio – Chilly

Ég komst loksins aftur í saumagírinn um jólin og kláraði síðasta snjókarlinn af 3 í Snowman Trio. Það er hann Chilly og hann er eiginlega mitt uppáhald.

I finally managed to finish the 3rd snowman Chilly in the Snowman Trio. He is kind of my favorite and that´s why I saved him for last.

Hér er svo mynd af þeim öllum saman. Ég er búin að setja allar tölur á þá og á bara eftir að ganga endanlega frá þeim.  Ég stefni á að drífa í því strax eftir áramót. Mig hlakkar mikið til að sjá þá alveg tilbúna.

Here they are all 3 of them all buttoned up and looking so cute. So who´s your favorite?

O´holy night update

Ætla bara að skella hér inn mynd af stöðunni af O´holy night. Ég er ekki búin að vera neitt sérstaklega dugleg en þetta mjakast hægt og rólega. Verður pottþétt tilbúið fyrir næstu jól.

I just wanted to show you my progress of O´holy night. I haven´t been stitching a lot lately but this will definatelly be ready for next Christmas.

O´holy night dagatal

Ég er búin að sitja marga tíma undanfarið við þetta dagatal. Ég var að vonast til að klára það fyrir 1.des en eins og tíminn virðist fljúga áfram þá er það orðið nokkuð vonlaust. Ég var að klára alla krossana og á nú eftir allan afturstinginn og borðann utan um myndina. Og svo auðvitað allar litlu myndirnar sem á að hengja á það. En ég get gert þær jafn óðum í desember. En hér er mynd.

I´ve been working very hard on this Christmas calendar. I was hoping to finish this before December 1st but I´m kind of runnig out of time. I now got all the backstitching left and the border plus all the little pieces to hang on it. Well we´ll see.

Ég læt fylgja með eina mynd af Tuma og Karmen þar sem þau eru að kúra saman.