Cross Stitch Exhibit

Last week, DMC Philippines held an exhibit featuring the cross stitch adaptations of the paintings of Fernando Amorsolo, Philippines' 1st National Artist.  Here are some photos I've taken during the exhibit and also of the patterns I've bought:

 

Girl with Mangoes (painting & cross stitch)

Girl with Mangoes (painting)

Girl with Mangoes (cross stitch)

Girl with Mangoes (cross stitch pattern)

Sunset - Return of the Fishermen (cross stitch & painting)

Sunset - Return of the Fishermen (painting)

Sunset - Return of the Fishermen (cross stitch)

Sunset - Return of the Fishermen (cross stitch pattern)

Planting Rice (cross stitch & painting)

 

Planting Rice (painting)

Planting Rice (cross stitch)

Planting Rice (cross stitch pattern)

Here's another version of Planting Rice cross stitched by the painter's daughter, Helen Amorsolo Martinez.  You can read something about her here.

Planting Rice (done by Helen Amorsolo Martinez)

More paintings, cross stitch and patterns...

Winnowing Rice (cross stitch & painting)

Winnowing Rice (painting)

Winnowing Rice (cross stitch)

Winnowing Rice (cross stitch pattern)

Girl with a Banga [earthen water jar] (painting & cross stitch)

Girl with a Banga (painting)

Girl with a Banga (cross stitch)

Girl with a Banga (cross stitch pattern)

Lavandera [laundry lady] (cross stitch & painting)

Lavandera (painting)

Lavandera (cross stitch)

Lavandera (cross stitch pattern)

Tinikling (bamboo) Dance (painting)

 

Tinikling Dance (cross stitch in progress)

Tinikling Dance (cross stitch in progress)

Tinikling Dance (cross stitch in progress)

Tinikling Dance (cross stitch in progress)

Tinikling Dance (cross stitch in progress)

Tinikling Dance (cross stitch in progress)

Tinikling Dance (cross stitch pattern)

The following were all stitched by Helen.  I'm not sure if they are going to release a pattern for the Mother and Child.

Mother and Child (cross stitched by Helen)

Amorsolo's children

And here's the portrait of the famous painter:

Fernando Amorsolo's portrait (cross stitched by Helen)

Here are some photos of him with his family:

Some more photos of the exhibit:

Another pattern that I bought which was not featured in the exhibit:

Cooking the Noon Day Meal

It was so hard to choose just one or two or three...so I bought all the patterns :-D  But if I have to choose one at gunpoint, I think it will be the Tinikling Dance.  Sunset is my second favorite.

In a future post, I will write more about the details of each pattern.

Pepperonis!

That's what my ex-boyfriend (now my husband, LOL!) said when he saw these:

I don't know what made him think of pepperonis?  To me, they're more comparable to sliced pickles, right?  :-D

Of course they are not pepperonis nor sliced pickles.  They are the center of this flower motif:

And here's my progress on the shawl:

Last holy week, on black Friday April 22, my stitching buddy Arlene, visited me at home and we had our stitching session.  I want to share with you photos of our work table.  Yeah I know, it's messy, but it's fun!

Arlene's crochet project

My cross stitch project and things

Peanuts!

 

Thanks for dropping by!  Take care everyone :-)

Blogs I'm Following

I've been out of the loop for more than a week and when I logged-in to my blogger dashboard awhile ago, I was shocked to see that all the blogs I'm following were deleted from my list.  I don't know how this happened.  So, for all the bloggers that I follow, if you see that my name is no longer in your follower's list, please let me know and I will re-follow.  I did not intentionally unfollow.  Maybe there is something wrong with the system.

I will do my best to post something soon.  Sorry for being absent these last few days due to the reason I've mentioned in my previous post.

For the meantime, I want to share a photo of a shirt that I bought several years ago, maybe more than ten years ago.  I bought this because of the design and color.  I never noticed what was written until recently when I was folding it.

Last but not the least, thank you very much for all your prayers and kindest words of sympathy during these hard times in our life, specially to Kim, Home Is Where My Heart Is, Minibinoy and Stitchstitchknit, as well as to Kirstin and Irene from the cross stitch forum of about.com.

Take care everyone!

Wishing

Just dropping by to show my progress on Tropical Fruits.  Will post more when things go back to normal.  My mother-in-law is in the hospital due to leukemia and I am praying, hoping and wishing that she will be alright and that everything will be fine.  She's one of the kindest persons I've ever known.

As of April 12, 2011

As of today

Take care everyone!

It's Raining Threads and Yarns!!!

Yes, it is!  Please, read on...

When I enrolled in Dreams for crochet lessons, I met there Arlene, who came to know about Dreams through this blog.  She enrolled in Hardanger lessons and we became stitching buddies.  She told me about a store where they sell yarns and threads by the kilo.  One kilo of cotton thread costs P170 (around US $4.00) and one kilo of yarn is P270 (more or less US $6.00) So, addicted as we are, we went there.  Let the photos do the talking:

Yarn and Thread Store in Rosario, Pasig

Outside the store, you'll never know how much yarns and threads inside

 

I ended up buying 6 kilos of threads, but I will show the photos in another entry soon.

Now, onto my crochet lessons in Dreams.  Do you know that it's very hard for me to concentrate on my lessons there as these are all around me:

Yarns and threads in Dreams Yarnshoppe

Because of these, I am always telling my teacher that I need to rest my eyes for awhile, but in truth, I will stand up and stretch and then . . . touch these beauties and think what I will buy before I leave the store.  Sick?  Yes, I am.  And I need my thread medicine!!!

Have a nice week everyone!  And to all of you, thank you very much for reading my blog.  And big, big thank you to those of you who leave comments as well as to my followers.  They mean so much to me and you're my inspiration in my updates here.

Hugs to you all :-)