My watergarden..

Missed working on this..

LK WIPs

Both dated 30th October, 2011. Lizzie Kate's My Secret Garden (top) and the last of the Seasonal Baskets' Autumn (bottom). It was such a depressing feeling stitching that light brown brick stone wall..I think for the Autumn Basket, I am missing some flosses.

Cute!

Found this little fella inside one of my old cross stitch magazine...he's going to be cute!

WG backdated pic

WG as of 12Aug 2012. Found this pic in my phone gallery. Lucky there is Blogger app available as my phone is dead to other thing than itself. No wifi or bluetooth. It's charging itself only when switched off.

Building up a watergarden

It started one day last year when my next door neighbor renovated his house. It was during the fasting month and I had so much time to stitch as I didn't opt to teach my Jazzercise class during fasting much.

I can't yet afford to renovate my house, so I thought I build something on my own instead...



Started this in 2003. Here's the earliest picture that I can find. After 11 hours of stitching date 3rd August.

Next progress was dated on 14th January 2006. After a while, I must thought it wasn't worth it to track the hours of stitching any more. LOL!

And last year 2012, it started to roll... I would stitch on this every once in a while if I had time to spare. Exclusively.. this was dated 29th August 2012.

Finally, it's finished!

Well not quite. Other than the missing floss for part of the moon, the rest is finally finished during the 2nd weeks of the fasting month. Michael Powell's Mini Cottage.

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Another 1/3 and backstitch, this will be done!

WIP - MP village scene

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Originally uploaded by myroz

@3.5 hours since last update.

Painted the house white!

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MP_WIP Oct09

Put the clothes into the washing machine - checked.
Turn on the TV. CSI is on - checked.
Turn on the working light - checked.
Pick up a (by hand) project and do - cross stitch!

No matter there is still some clothes in the laundry basket waiting to be folded. :-)

Buat cross stich semalam, warna putih utk dinding cottage ni sementara menunggu mesin membasuh kain. Walaupun..masih ada kain yang perlu di lipat. Hehehe..

stitched rr

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Among my last stitching done. An RR for Yasmin. Done in Drawn Thread motifs.

Neighborhood Round Robin 2007

My stitching for this RR. Design is from LK Summer, Friendship. Added some french knots to the window's flowers. This RR will take about a year of 2 month stitchings in between rotation.

I am aiming for an overall oval look so I still have to stitch my welcome gate when this comes home. InshaaAllah. Flosses used are mostly variegated DMC and some DnT overdyes.

Surprise Me MA

For Angie in Indiana, USA.

Angie had been ill and thus, my exchanged MA was late. Hope to see it arrived safely. Will post picture when received.

Valentine/Redwork MA

For Jean in USA.

In exchange, Jean sent me these..love those stamps!

My MA collections

These are the MAs that I had collected so far. Love them all!

Mail arts

Mail arts are basically stitched envelopes. You picked a design for the theme, finished it into an envelope and mailed with some good glued-on stamps.

Margaret's Valentine/Redwork MYS exchange (front). Design is a freebie from Bent Creek.

4-patch pincushion

My exchange to Lillie. In return, I received this lovely one from Zalita.

My exchange to Lillie.

MYS Biscournus exchange

My piece to Yasmin with ladybug buttons and flowers using size10 Coats crochet/tatting thread! Design is originally a Rainbow Gallery blackwork freebie by Patricia Wainwright called Victorian Posy Blackwork. I like the way it turned out. Lovely! I want to do one for myself! (together with Just Nan's Rose, also an exchanged biscournu).

In exchange, I received my biscournu from Lillie. Love that rose-colored fabric!

MYS 2006 Exchange #6

The last of MYS 2006 exchange. We are to do a sampler and this piece is an old freebie by Lesa Steele. Added on bee, butterfly and heart charms.

My tatting adventures..

Went to meet Faizon, Linda, and June on Saturday (12Aug) for my first tatting class. It was fun. Here're the result:

The picot is too small. I had trouble 'gauge-ing' the size of each picot. Maybe I need to come up with that gauge thing soon.

Yikes! Forgot to make up the joint!

Finally did the joint, only to find that I joined to the wrong ring.. :-)

Managed this small band. I am not sure if I did the correct sequence of rings, or whether i did the join properly or whether my double stitches are too loose. The rings looked un-uniformed, the picots varied in size.. Let's hear what the more tatting expert say...

Another exchange finished.

Bookmark for Wendy as part of MYS 2006 exchange. I adapted the freebie design of Lizzie Kate to make up the bookmark.

Book..not included. :-)

Winter Basket by Lizzie Kate, finished. Well, not really. Still one more floss color is missing.

This is how it looks so far. One more season (Autumn) to go. And the buttons to put on.