Stitching for a charity quilt

I'm currently stitching a square for a quilt that will be auctioned off for charity. A forum I post on came up with the idea and we got the OK from the designer of a Fairy Tale alphabet. It's not my style and I'm not really enjoying stitching it much because it's a lot of similar colours and I'm finding it boring. Still, it's for a good cause, so I'm happy I can contribute. I need to chart and stitch my name and location, then it's all finished!

Balloon Girl finished

When I posted earlier, I didn't expect that I would finish stitching this kit today!

I've just washed it, as I had marked out the grid lines with a fabric pen, so the colours might look a bit odd whilst it's still wet.

Anyway....here it is...

Golden Gate Bridge-ALL stitching finished!

I'm now stitching a kit called Balloon Girl, which is based on a Banksy design. It'll be a Christmas present for my brother and his fiance. It's coming along quite nicely, so hopefully I'll get it finished soon.

I need to start finding some frames for all my finished stitching, though! I have several pieces washed and ready for framing, so I need to sit down and get ironing and mounting so I can have them on the wall being admired!!!

Everyone Brings Joy

I finished stitching this Waxing Moon design on Monday. I stitched it for my husband as it was our 8th anniversary and I wanted to stitch something on linen for it (on the list for modern 8th anniversary gifts).

I started it in late April when I was on jury service, but didn't get as much stitching time as I'd hoped. At least I finished stitching it in time, although it's not framed yet.

Golden Gate bridge-all cross stitches finished!

I've finished all the cross stitch now! I need to wash it before adding the back stitch & long stitch.

I am kicking myself about the frames. I found 2 frames which would be ideal for it, but the mount is just slightly too small. If I had known before I had started stitching, I could've missed 3 rows from the top and 3 or 4 from the bottom of the picture and it would fit perfectly. To be fair, I hadn't bought the frames when I first started stitching, so I couldn't have known. Annoying, though! Will probably use the frame, but get a different mount cut. Which frame do you think looks better? Pine or black? (Just folded the fabric into place to give a rough idea how they'd look)

Updated photo

April 13th 2010. The end is in sight... :-)

Golden gate bridge update

Here's what my stitching looked like the last time I picked it up (almost 2 years ago to the day!)

...And this is what it looks like today! I've done a fair bit of stitching on it this week and it's taking shape now. I've had to put it on a bigger frame to work on as I was running out of stitching space with the smaller one.

The design is by John Clayton. I love his work and have quite a few kits by him. Several of the Circles range, as I think they look amazing, and one called 'The Junction' of a narrow boat approaching a lock. I have no idea where I'm going to display all these kits when I finish them! :-)