I'm Doing a Roll Call

I've sent out an email to every single member of the blog, except buddies. So if you are a regular member and you haven't received an email from me today then your email addy is incorrect here at the blog, please correct it and send me an email with your updated information.

Just to make sure that everyone is aware, here is the substance of the email:

You may have noticed that we have less traffic then we used to. In the interest of our readers and the many stitchers that are on the waiting list to become members, I'd like to take a roll call.

If you are interested in remaining an active and regular contributor to the blog, please respond to me via email. Include your blog name and your real name (first name only is fine).

Please respond by next Friday, Sept. 10th. I will begin to remove anyone that hasn’t responded next weekend.

Thank you in advance for your understanding.

So far I’ve gotten 3 undeliverable emails back:

BW

Dragonflymystic

Aussie Stitcher

And many more responses. Thank you to those that have already responded, I am updating my lists accordingly.

Red Witch - September Update

Here is my latest update on Linda Ravenscroft's Red Witch.

I have completed my goal for 2010: over 85% completed





I have been lurking rather than posting.

All the WIPs are looking great: keep up the good work: happy stitching

Lynda

Garnet QS Update, Lisa

I don't have a picture of where I was with this one before, but I've done just under 1,000 stitches this month so far :) She is a wonderful change from Noah's Ark, though the one-over-one stitching was hard to get used to, and my back does NOT love me for hunching over the q-snaps. But I like her.




And here's what she'll look like in the end:

Unicorn Dream; Gaudi

I've finally finished the fifth page of the Unicorn, with this I've completed the first row, and one third of the wip! To celebrate this I'm going to let it rest next week, and work a little more on my other two non-HAED projects, Chuck and Montecristo in its slot ;)


But I won't pause with Gaudí, especially since it looks like next week I'm going to finish page six.

Take care!
Maria

gothic rose update

Hello,
here is my latest update for gothic rose. happy stitching all!

hugs Marleen

http://xxmarleenxx.blogspot.com/

Cheryl's update: The Waiting (Schim Schimmel)

I have completed another page, the clouds are really looking good!

Cheers

Cheryl

http://haedxstitch.blogspot.com

Lost Melody Nene Thomas

Haven't contributed for a while.Here is my latest start Nene Thomas's Lost melody.Have finished two pages.

Train of dreams

After a laptopdebacel (chrash) I'm back online. It was scary. Fortunately I had good backups. I have done much to the Train of Dreams. I am working on the third page since the last update. I really like all these colors. Now on this side the tail of the dragon's is coming. I am looking forward to it. Medusa lies beside me, but when I go there again I will not rush back to the train. So she continues to lie here. I also printed the front page of the First Rose Christensen. I think she is so beautiful. But hey, you can not do everything at once.

 All Iwould like to. Also in my mind is still the Tower at Stoney Wood.

 sigh, I'm just not enough hours per day.

Linda Bigg's Ladybug

Hi, I am Harriet and this is my first post. I don't have a blog and haven't really figure out how this works, but here goes.

I finally found the pattern that I am truly in love with stitching. The colors are so amazing. I only work on it a few hours a week but it is growing.

This is page 1 which was a very small page and most of page 7. Hopefully posting it give me some motivation to work on it more.

There are truly some awesome stitchers here. You guy are truly an inspiration.

HAED Slump

I started a new HAED, Purple Night Adventure by CCK.  I started stitching the very last page, looking forward to actually having ONE page completed out of the now 4 WIPs I have going.  I did finish one page, but then looking at the whole thing at once, I promptly put it away, feeling entirely overwhelmed!  Here is where I am now, maybe someday, hopefully sooner than later, I will pick something back up and get started again....

Thanks for looking. :)

Bottom of the Garden by Babs

Some of you might remember my first Haed, Queen of Hearts. I started it, but after a lot of faults in the fabric and not happy with the coverage I wanted to restart it. But then I noticed more beautifull Haeds...

Recently I started Bottom of the Garden, by Amy Brown. I'm not far yet, somewhere halfway the first page.

And this is how it should look like:

I hope to post more often, but I don't stitch my Haed everyday.

Love, Babs

Some Great News!

Check out the HAED home page, look in the column on the left.
Do you see the link?
Michele has put up a link to our humble blog on the main page!
THANK YOU MICHELE!

Joke's Foregone and Call of the Raven

It's been quite a while, so I have an update to show. I'm reaching the hair of the lady of Foregone. So stitching on it is becoming more and more fun. Call of the Raven is still growing on a monthly basis. And Astrid, do you see the difference? I'm rolling my work now instead of folding ;)

Finished Page 5

I just put the last stitches in page 5 of Contemplating the System. I really wanted to finish this page before the end o f the month. So I'm really happy that I could do that today.

Here is where I started this month.


Here is where I finished today.


Next month I go back to Fantasies of the Seas. Hope I can get as much done on it as I did with this one.

Thanks for looking.

A Finish!!!!

Quick Stitch White Cat

I haven't done any stitching at all for about four months but recently picked this piece up again as I wanted to finish it by October. It literally took me under three weeks to totally finish it and I put in my final stitch on 9 August.

Here is my last progress pic




and here is my finish.



Stitched on 28 count white evenweave Jobelan
Started 9 April 2009
Finished 9 August 2010

The picture doesn't do it justice, it really is beautiful even though I say it myself lol. I started this piece in remembrance of my white cat Lily who went missing - it is just so like her. I never thought it would look as lovely as it does and can't wait to have it framed and put on display. It is one of those pictures that follows you around the room and I am so pleased I have finally finished it as it has taken me far to long to complete.

This has also given me my stitching mojo back and the very next day I ordered QS Red Witch by Linda Ravenscroft and started stitching straight away. I first saw the full version of this piece on this blog and I liked it more each time I saw it.

Here is how it will look



I am stitching this on Polstitches hand-dyed Pearl 28 count Jobelen 2 over 2. Here is my progress so far.




Sheila

carley cat

Helo,

so far was I in juli


and this in august, about 2500 stitches and I'm glad with my progress... I still like stitching this one very much!


my blog :
http://xxmarleenxx.blogspot.com/

Wrath - August 23, 2010

I finally finished page 10 of Wrath. I have not stitched at all since my OH's accident nearly 4 months ago. For those that don't know, my OH was in a car accident and suffered a severe brain injury. He is still in the hospital and has made slow improvements. The prognosis has never been good but he is still improving more than the doctors thought so I hope he continues down that path. I recently just picked up my stitching again last week. It's helped to get my mind off of what has happened. Here's page 10, I didn't get a pic of the whole thing because I took it with my iphone and didn't realize I had it upside down until much later..so pic of the whole thing will be coming after I finish the next page.



~Kerri~

Mad Tea Party by Romantic Fool "Mel"

This piece is my travel piece.  I work on it mostly when I go away on trips so that is why so little has been done but I was able to work on it for 2 hours on my mini-vacation this weekend.

This is the upper right hand corner of the pattern.

Cheryl's update: The Waiting (Schim Schimmel)

Another page finished!

Cheers

Cheryl

http://haedxstitch.blogspot.com

Faery Tales and Bubbles

It has been such a long time since I have posted to this blog, sorry. I am also sorry for the horrible photos. Faery Tales is getting so big, as I have stitched all over the place, I am having trouble laying it flat to take the wip pictures.

Here is a close up of Bubbles, I did take a picture of the whole lot, but it was so blurry that I decided not to show it.

You are all doing some amazing stitching and I enjoy keeping up with all of the wips on this blog.

Joanne - Wizard of Oz

I've done more of page 1 (when will I ever get to the end of it?) but have decided to leave this alone for a few weeks as I've decided to carry on stitching a project I started on 6/6/99 and 11 years is a long time so I really need to finish it.  Pics and more info on my blog http://joanne-craftybitsnbobs.blogspot.com/ so here's the Wizard for now.

Lonneke

Hi everyone,

I have been MIA, a lot has been going on here and I couldn't find the time for updates.

I finished From the Ashes from SPML and the 2010 SK HAED SAL Dark Mermaid.

I also have been stitching on QS Venus Dryad by Annie Rodrigue again while on vacation. I love the richness of those greens.

I am happy with my finish and I want to finish three more HAED's before I start a new one. The next one is going to be QS Bliss form Hannah Lynn.

I have been looking at all your stitching. It is looking amazing and very inspiring. What a great artwork!

Happy stitching, Lonneke

Here's an update of MOTD,I can't seem to find my Faery Tales or Sunny scans. I'll try to dig thru my computers later today.
I had my gall bladder taken out in an emergency surgery 2 weeks ago and I've spent a good deal of time dopey but I did manage to get a bit done on Faery Tales. I'm trying to work on Sunny this week but it's been a long week already and I find myself being so tired:( I haven't taken any pain medication in days yet still so tired:(
Everyones updates look so great!:) We do some amazing stitching here:)
Happy stitching ladies!

From My Buddy, Valerie J.

Hello my friends!


Here is the photo of my 7th finished page. I started this embroidery 8 months ago and I am only embroidering this one. So I still have about 17 months to complete it. But I like it so much!





Congratulations on all your patterns, I love them!


Hugs,

Valerie

Cheryl's update: The Waiting (Schim Schimmel)

I have nearly completed the next row of pages, I just have a bit of lightning confetti to do.

Cheers

Cheryl

http://haedxstitch.blogspot.com

Call of the Raven and Foregone - Joke

It's quite some time ago that I posted an update on my work. I have been busy stitching on Foregone. It is a beautiful design, but until now rather boring! I am stitching brown, brown, dark brown, even darker brown and black. And I love bright colours LOL So how do I survive this? Yes, like all other stitchers do. Just follow my needle and from time to time stitch something else, like Call of the Raven. As you can see I don't like ironing LOL


Foregone

Train of dreams - Sjoukje

After yet another week of stitching I have a beginning of the locomotive! It's a lot of red and blue, my favorite colours, I really like the brightness. On the right you can see the head of the dragon who is riding the train.
I have stitched 3 pages so far, still enjoying it!

updates

Hello

here is my update for my 'gothic rose'. I've stitched about 1600 stitches last month..



and 'carley cat'


Marleen

Train of dreams

Like Sjoukje I am working at the Train again. The Medusa is so boring. And the Train isnt. So much confettie, I like it again. The colors and the items on the shelf. Or is it a desk or a floor. who knows ???

Elfland Update

Well I am still trucking along on Elfland. It's hard to motivate myself when I have Rose waiting. But I am commited to only stitching Rose on SAL weekends. that way I actually work on my other projects too!
Here is the start of the second page. I gridded (for the first time ever) so that I could start in the bottom corner of the page as that is my preference. (I know it's backwards but that is how I like to stitch).
Sorry the pic is a bit dark. I was having flash issues.

Mel from Epic Stitching.

Marie's Update: Lavender Moon

Marie S. is my new buddy and I will post on her behalf from now on. This is her message:

Thanks so much Joke for excepting me as your buddy! Louanne thanks for excepting me : ) I have a lot of Haed patterns and I am going to start with Lavender Moon chart HAEJG 245. I have attached a picture of it so you can see what it looks like.