Page 2 Row 7 Done!

Well I've been doing well with stitching right now.  The last few 10x10 squares were easier because they were mostly one color, especially the last 3 squares.  I need to extend my grid lines on my fabric then I will continue on to Row 8.  I have 2 10x10 rows left and 1 10x8 row then this page will be done.  I'm excited.  Anyway, here are my update pics!

Page 2, Row 6 Finally Done!!

I finally finished my next row of stitches, only took me 9 months! LOL!  Sorry it took soooo long to update, life has been completely insane since January.  I didn't even stitch at all, not even non-HAED projects from January till July.  I finally got my stitching bug back around July and worked on a simple blackwork project.  I found lots of different blackwork squares in a free download, used my own fabric, and put a little spin on it and it looked good.  I even finished it!  I started reading the HAED board and finally got myself re-motivated to work on my Sapphire project.  I don't know how I didn't stitch on anything for sooo long.  My stitching is such a therapeutic thing for me.  If my mind is racing with everything going on it slows my thinking down because I have to concentrate so I don't make (as many) mistakes.  If I need to think and come up with an opinion or whatever is going on at that given time it allows me to concentrate on that one issue and stitch.  It's so soothing and helpful.  The change in me not stitching, to stitching again is that I have surrounded myself with people who support my hobby, not make me feel guilty for doing it and make me pack it away.  I'm grateful to those people and you all know who you are.  I really enjoy sitting and watching TV and stitching or watching my guy play video games while I stitch.  It's been good so I hope this streak of having my stitchy bug continues, especially for my Sapphire project.  Okay now that I've written a novel I will share the pictures of my new row.  I believe I have started the background behind the girl.  I seem to be getting out of the grays/purples and more into the blues that are behind her.  We shall see if that continues in the next row.  I should have this page completed soon, unless my life turns even more crazy and I pray it doesn't.  Anyway, here are the update pictures.

Page 2 Row 3 FINISHED!

I just finished stitching my 3rd row on page 2!  That means I did a row in less than a day!  I do want to say to not expect an update on my Saturday or Sunday (I'm in the US) because I will be staying the nite at my aunt's house with my 4 boys and won't be taking my stitching.  I plan to enjoy that time with my boys!  So the next post from me should be on Monday or Tuesday I'd guess.  Here's the pics!

Second Post in one day!

We are having a blizzard here so I spent all day stitching.  I just finished up Row 2 on Page 2.  Here's the update pics!

Page 2 Started...

Man, doing just the background on this project goes so much faster than doing the actual design with all of the confetti.  I just got Page 2, Row 1 done!  It's going much faster than the last few rows on the last page, I'm deal with mostly one color of thread with a few accents added in!  Here's the pics!

Excited!

I am so excited to announce that I just finished PAGE 1 of Sapphire!  I can't believe I've done a whole page already.  That's over 7,800 stitches!  There are 42 pages (not all full pages, some are partial pages) in this chart and I'm done with one of them!  I need a shower first but then I will start on page 2.  Here's the pics!

Page 1 Row 9 is DONE!!

I am so happy to tell you that I have no JUST completed row 9 on page 1.  Here are the pics!

Page 1 Row 8 of Sapphire is DONE!!

I just finished stitching the next Row on Page 1 of Sapphire!  I actually got to use some bright colors in the last two squares!  I think I see the gem in the upper left corner appearing!  Here are the update pics I just took...

Page 1, Row 7 DONE!

I've been a busy lil stitching bee again.  I just finished the next row, Row 7 on Page 1 of Sapphire.  The last 7 stitches all being one-stitch wonders (as I call them) but I got em done.  Here are the pictures.  I have been rotating Sapphire with Stacked Cups so they get equal attention.  Plan on some pictures soon of Stacked Cups!

Stacked Cups DONE minus Backstitching!!

Well after I took the most recent pics of the Stacked Cups project, I have continued stitching on it.  I was almost done when my thread frayed and split so I had to unstitch a bit to make it right but got it all done.  The bottom cup now has a handle and saucer and the left side and bottom borders are done!  I just have the backstitching left to do!!  Here are the pics!!

I also have only 300 stitches left in the next row of Sapphire.  Now I'm not sure if I should go back to Sapphire or work on the backstitching of Stacked Cups.  Such decisions!

Stacked Cups Update

Well I've been a busy little stitching bee the last 12 hours.  Not only did I do 200 stitches on Sapphire, but I found my mistake in Stacked Cups way back there in the pattern so I unstitched AGAIN since my last update on this project.  But I persevered and got the 3rd cup (not the saucer or handle) DONE!!  I'm so proud of myself.  I'm so close to being done with the x's on this project.  I just have the handle and saucer on the 3rd and final cup, and 1/2 of the border and the x's are done!  Then there's just backstitching.  I'm so happy Sherry has put me up to this as I will finally finish a project (only my 2nd this YEAR and #8 in my LIFE TIME!  I had to take pics to show you my 3rd cup after so much unstitching!  Here are the pics of Stacked Cups.

So I think I'm going to take a break and return to Sapphire for a 100 stitches or so and come back to Stacked Cups!  Stay tuned for a FINISH!!

Page 1, Row 6 Done!!

Finally finished up the next row!  Got Page 1, Row 6 completed just now.  Here are the pics for that!

I also unstitched the mistake area on 'Stacked Cups'.  I plan to pick that up next and get a lil done on it!

Finally Page 1, Row 5 is DONE!

Except for 1 stitch that I can't seem to find the color for, Page 1, Row 5 is done.  Took me awhile to get this row done as I wasn't feeling good there for awhile and just plain didn't feel like stitching.  A few days ago I forced myself to just pick it up and do 15 mins and finally just now got my row finished.  I seem to be missing the color 939 in my project bag so will be going to the store hopefully sometime this week to grab that color.  I must have skipped it on the color number page when purchasing the threads to begin with.  I'm sure my Ben Franklins will have it.  Anyway here are the update pictures!

Oh I almost forgot.  I was searching around for the color 939 and FOUND stacked cups project.  I can now work on that in my spare time.  Right SPARE time.  But I have located it and cannot wait to finish it.  I will try to figure out where I missed up on that one and I'm sure I'll have some frogging (unstitching) to do!  Here are the pics of Sapphire!

Page 1 Row 4 Done

Finally feeling a bit better tho not sure what's going on with me yet.  I just finished a row.  I finally got to stitch something other than background!  Here are the pics!