A Stitching Love Affair

Well I have finally finished doing the jessica stitches on Chenonceau All 232 of them..... Chenonceau - Loire Castle by Chatelaine Now to finish the rest of it, hopefully I can finish it by the end of the year! Happy stitching everyone! Michelle 

Another update on Chenonceau I have started on the outer border so not far to go! I have also had another start.... Opps! 28 count Ivory evenweave This is another Chatelaine Design called Pompeji, I'm loving the colours so far! I have also had these Teresa Wentzler charts for a long time, so I finally purchased some fabric to start them Magical Night will be stitched on 28 count Ice Blue evenweave and Carousel I have 28 count Grey evenweave. Never ever again will I do a Teresa Wentzler piece on 32 count linen, I value my sanity lol. I have also brought New York by Thea Gouverneur. Now this has 18 count aida in the kit and I will not be using that, mostly because I don't like aida much so I think I will get some evenweave 28 count. It is stitched with one strand and I am considering using 2 strands. Obviously there won't be enough thread in the kit so I will have to match up from my DMC threads . Has anyone used 2 strands? How does it look? ...

I have finally finished the castle of Chenonceau! Before - After -  Now on to the garden part with lots of specialty stitches! Michelle

I haven't posted about Chenonceau (Chatelaine Design)for a while and since I have done quite a bit since the last photos of this I decided it needed it's own post! Before -  After - I have started doing some back stitching on the windows, mostly because there is heaps of it and I would rather do a bit now instead of having all of it to do at the end. I will endeavour to blog more often but I just get so busy with work and stuff!  happy stitching Michelle