Butterflies Finished!!!

I finally finished the Butterflies last Saturday.  It took me one week to finish the backstitching.  Maybe I should start searching the net for backstitching tips and techniques because I can't help it, most of my kits and some of my patterns require that dreadful stitch!  It's not the backstitches that outline the object that bother me, I can do that easily.  It's the one inside the object for the details that repelled me.  Anyway, here's the photo of the finished Butterflies.

Now have to go to the framer so I can give this to my friend soon.

Thanks for reading and have a nice week everyone!

Butterflies as of today

This will be a short, just to post my progress on Butterflies.  All the cross stitching are done, it's only the backstitching that keeps me from finishing it.  Oh well, but I really need to finish this soon as I will be giving this to a dear friend this February.

Okay, got to go now back to my stitching!  :-)

Some More Stitching Goals

Though my goal for this year is to finish some of my UFOs, I think it's a MUST that I should finish all of my WIPs.  I have three, two small and a BAP.

Butterflies

I am going to give this to a friend and I have set a deadline that I should finish it this January.  But it has so many backstitches that I know I will dread doing.  Let's see if I can be a good girl and meet my deadline.

Morning Lake

This is how it should look when finished:

My progress

Homebound

This is a cross stitch conversion of a masterpiece painted in 1936.  You can see the details of the painting here.  The pattern has a different title than the painting.  I am doing this on 16-count Aida and the finished size will be 26.25 inches x 20.125 inches.  It consist of 12 pages of pattern, A3 size.  It has 48 colors of DMC threads and total skeins of 200.

Here's my progress

I am hoping that I can finish it this year.  I will try to follow this stitching schedule:

Monday to Friday - WIPs
Saturday and Sunday - UFOs

Right now, I am doing my best not to start another pattern or kit, though so many are calling my name.  I really, really wanted to trim down my UFOs and finish all my WIPs.

That's all for now.  Have to go and clean these:

My work tools

Thanks for reading and take care everyone!

WIP's: Butterflies

I've been so tired lately. There's so much work to do and so little time and the household chores seems never ending. But I am not complaining, in fact, I thank God for all He's giving me: lots of work, a family to care for, roof over my head and lots of cross stitch that will make me busy for a very long time.

I used to plan on what I will post here, but it took so much effort and planning that I realized maybe it's time that I just post whatever comes into my mind.

So for today, it is about what I am currently stitching, Butterflies. I bought this sometime last year but was not able to finish due to procrastination. I alternately stitch this with my current bigger pattern.That's all for now! Going to clean the house like a madwoman :-D