Erla Björk - My stitching blog

I can see a dragon!

Erla Björk — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:57:40 +0000

The dragon is finally appearing and I just love the way his eyes turned out. I will not be able to put her down now until she´s finished!

Faces of Faery 88 by Jasmine Becket-Griffith
Stitched 1 over 1 on 28 ct

I will not be starting the HAED BB 2012 SAL until this one is finished. The piece I chose for the SAL is SK Blue Moon by Linda Rafenscroft. Can´t wait to show you the first update!

2011 in review

Erla Björk — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:28:51 +0000

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

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A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,400 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people.

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A Princess is Born – first page done

Erla Björk — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:38:03 +0000

After the never ending confetti I finally managed to finish the first page of A Princess is Born. I am so very pleased with all the details and I love the way the butterfly turned out.

A Princess is Born by Hannah Lynn
Stitched 1 over 1 on 28 ct Jobelan

Faces of faery 88 is screaming for my attention right now so I hope I will be back soon with an update picture!

FOF 88 and a new HAED start

Erla Björk — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:35:09 +0000

YAY! Finally a new update of Faces of Faery 88. She is going so slow for some reason but she´s got both eyes now! Now I just need to finish her hair and then
I´m on to the cute purple dragon. Can´t wait!

Faces of Faery 88 by Jasmine Beckett-Griffith
Stitched 1 over 1 on 28 ct

OK I wasn´t going to buy or start another HAED until FOF 88 was finished. But when I saw A Princess is Born by Hannah Lynn had been charted I just had to have it….and start it!!! It´s absolutely my favorite artwork by Hannah Lynn. I have only been working on it for 2 hours or so but I already love working on it.

A Princess is Born by Hannah Lynn
Stitched 1 over 1 on 28ct Jobelan

More of Faces of Faery 88

Erla Björk — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:59:04 +0000

Faces of Faery 88 is going great! The plan was to work on her other eye but somehow I started to work on her cheek and then the other cheek and so I just decided to finish them both along with her nose and mouth. Now I can´t wait to finish her other eye! She will be so pretty!

Faces of Faery 88 by Jasmine Becket-Griffith
Stitched 1 over 1 on 28 ct

FOF 88 – 1st page done

Erla Björk — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:59:11 +0000

I finished the first page of Faces of Faery 88…well apart from few stitches in her nose She has got an eye now and it looks so pretty!

Faces of Faery 88 by Jasmine Becket-Griffith
Stitched 1 over 1 on 28 ct

I will now go and put some more stitches into her Hopefully it won´t be long until she´ll have both her eyes!

Sveina´s Round Robin

Erla Björk — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:16:22 +0000

I finished Sveina´s Round Robin in the end of July and gave it to her in mid August. She was thrilled with it and I think it looks amazing! Her theme was Scarecrows and I stitched her this cute scarecrow girl

And here is Sveina´s completed Round Robin.

I also finished Tami´s Round Robin and sent it off to Jessica. I will post a picture as soon as it gets back home to Tami.

Faces of faery 88 WIP

Erla Björk — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:57:55 +0000

Just a quick update of Faces of Faery 88. I have been working on her lately but need to put her down now to finish 2 more Round Robins. But here is what she looks like now. I really can´t wait to pick her up again!

Faces of Faery 88 by Jasmine Becket-Griffith
Stitched 1 over 1 on 28 ct

My Round Robin has returned home

Erla Björk — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:23:13 +0000

I totally forgot to post pictures of my own Round Robin which returned home in late June. It only has 4 parts stitched out of 6 but 2 of my friends have asked me if they can finish it for me. So Yay!

My almost finished Round Robin – Theme is Cute Christmas
The one in upper right corner was stitched by me and finished in October 2009

This cute teddy-bear with all the snowmen around him was
stitched for me by Cindy in UK and finished in November 2009.

This amazingly cute and cuddly Somebunny to Love was
stitched for me by Sveina in Iceland and finished in March 2010

These super cute Forever Friends were stitched
for me by Ruwani in Australia and finished in April 2011

I am so really happy with my Round Robin and I think it looks amazing. Thank you so much girls for all your hard work!

Cindy´s Round Robin

Erla Björk — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:20:34 +0000

I heard from Cindy that she got her Round Robin back yesterday. Her theme was Cute Christmas and yeah she totally loved it!

So I´m ready to post pictures of the 2 parts I stitched for her. First I stitched a Lickle Ted pattern from The World of Cross Stitching magazine. I think he turned out pretty cute

Then for the second part I chose this Somebunny to Love pattern also from The World of Cross Stitching. I think those 2 fellows turned out pretty cute too

And here is Cindy´s completed Round Robin, stitched by Cindy herself, Ruwani, Kathryn, Sveina and me. I think it looks amazing!

My 2 new HAED starts

Erla Björk — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:27:14 +0000

I just want to share with you pictures of my 2 latest HAED starts. They are both by the same designer Jasmine Becket-Griffith. I´m totally in love with her designs and I have few other patterns by her that I will start working on later.

While on our holiday in June I started stitching Faces of Faery 88. I have only worked on her with 1 color but have already completed 2800 stitches.

Faces of Faery 88 by Jasmine Becket-Griffith
Stitched 1 over 1 on 28 ct

In May I started working on Sienna Dragonling. I haven´t done that much but here is a picture anyway.

Sienna Dragonling by Jasmine Becket-Griffith
Stitched 1 over 1 on 28 ct

I have been busy lately stitching on Cindy´s RR. With Cindy´s permission I did 2 parts for her and therefore completed the RR. I posted it last week but haven´t heard if she has received it so I´m unable to post pictures just yet

Love one Another

Erla Björk — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:18:12 +0000

I just finished this one last night but it still needs some buttons that I will have to special order later. Since this piece is a part of my Crazy January Challenge 2011 I have now 5 pieces out of 15 finished.

Love One Another by Ladybug Lane
Stitched on 32ct Linen Blue Dynasty - vintage
Threads – DMC, Gentle Arts and Week Dye Works

This and that

Erla Björk — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:26:27 +0000

Like usual I have been stitching like crazy Sorry for the lack of blogging though!

Like I told you in my last blog entry I went to a cabin in the country side with my 2 best friends for a weekend of stitching. I love those weekends and of course we had the best time together. I worked on the 2 pieces below but didn´t finish them until now. Both pieces are also a part of my Crazy January Challenge so now I have 4 out of 15 finished.

Making Friends by Just Nan
Stitched on 32 ct Linen

FaLaLa – Ornament by Little House Needleworks
Stitched on 32 ct Linen

Last night I finished this baby card for a friend of mine.

Stitched on 14 ct Aida
Card from Craftcreations

I have been working on Cindy´s RR and got her permission to do 2 parts instead of 1 and therefore complete her RR. I have already finished one part and will start the other one next week. Of course everything has to remain secret until the RR is back in the hands of it´s owner so no pictures just yet!
I also started 2 new HAED projects! Yeah I know I´m crazy! LOL! I´m not ready to post a picture just yet, I want to finish a little more before I do.

And here comes Juliet

Erla Björk — Thu, 05 May 2011 13:31:48 +0000

Page 4 of R&J is finally finished! It took me almost a month to complete and I thought for a while I would never made it! The endless confetti was making me crazy but now when I look at it it was all worth it.

Romeo and Juliet by Sara Butcher
Stitched 1 over 1 on 28ct

Now I can´t make up my mind whether to start a new HAED project or keep going with this one. I feel I need a break from it but really don´t want to put it down! How is that possible !

But first I´m going away for the weekend with 2 of my best friends. Whole weekend ahead of stitching and chilling

Here comes Romeo

Erla Björk — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:18:55 +0000

After a very long break from Romeo and Juliet I decided it was time to pick it up again and finish another page. Few times though I was about to give up because the confetti was never ending. But then his face began to appear and I just could not put it down.

Romeo and Juliet by Sara Butcher
Stitched 1 over 1 on 28ct – 3 pages done