The fabric I'm using is 30 ct. Alabaster by R&R.
And now for the something different - I have decided to try Canvas Work. I found a couple freebie's online by Laura J. Perin Designs. Here is my first attempt...
"Grandma's Flower Garden"
I messed up on the little squares. They are supposed to be bigger. Oh well, I'm thinking of making it into a fob. Here's my second attempt...
"Spring Fling"
So Far I have not messed this one up, which is a good thing. I'm enjoying Canvas Work. It's fun and definitely different than cross stitch, but there are still some similarities with it. It's still counted work. Well, not much else! I'd better get back to my Chocolate Box! Write later! :)
Thanks for visiting my blog. Great starts! You will have to post that chocolate box when it's totally finished! I can't wait to see it.
ReplyDeleteYour needles just fly! You have really done a lot on Chocolate Box! Can't wait to see it all finished up.
ReplyDeleteYour Chocolate Box and Canvas work are all really pretty! You just seem to get so much done!! I love all of these. I may see your canvas works and want to try it again. I think that you are doing the best canvas work by getting the patterns rather than using the painted canvases. Those would be more like a paint by number thing to me and these are creating something on a blank canvas. What count canvas do you use or does it come in counts?
ReplyDeleteYour chocolate box looks delicious! And the canvas work is just beautiful!!!
ReplyDeletethey are all beautiful! Wow, the chocolate really 'pops' on that fabric!! Your blog is always so inspiring!
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ReplyDeleteYour works are wonderful.
Congratulations.
I like this style very much, but it is not possible to receive one like this unfortunately at us.
Lilang from Hungary
Your chocolate box looks yummy! Our guild is teaching canvas work this Saturday and we are going to make a frame weight. We will learn how to do the finishing at the next meeting. I think it will be interesting.
ReplyDeleteMmm! Those chocolates look yummy! The canvaswork is really pretty too.
ReplyDeleteThat looks good enough to eat...mmmm chocolate:) I cant wait to see it finished.
ReplyDeleteI love counted canvas, it's easier to see and a nice change occasionally from those tiny little cross stitches. I'm hoping Chocolate Box will be at my LNS today.
ReplyDeletePlease save me a dark chocolate!
ReplyDeleteLovely start on the canvas work - now do I really want to try this.
Very cute start on Chocolate Box, Nicole. I can't wait to see this one finished!
ReplyDeleteGreat start on the chocolate box ... I'm sure you will have fun with Amy finishing it.
ReplyDeleteOoooo, fabulous fabulous fabulous! (You have to do that while clapping your hands like Eddie Murphy's mother in The Nutty Professor, by the way). Everything you do is so wonderful! I'm so glad to see that you did some LJP's! Weren't they fun?!
ReplyDeleteLove the canvas work! Thanks for pointing me in the direction of some freebies!
ReplyDeleteGreat job on the canvas work! I just took it up last year myself and have fallen in love with it! I find I much prefer the counted canvas on the painted canvas probably because it doesn't seem like as big of a leap away from cross stitching that way. LOL
ReplyDeleteOh,yes!!! Finally, you're doing some needlepoint, Nicole! I know you're going to get hooked. It's such fun and a different feel than xs, but just as rewarding...faster, too. Not that you'd need to be faster! Miss you! Deb
ReplyDeleteBoth are so pretty. Your needles are definitely smoking. I like the frame that you used for the canvas work. May I know what frame is that?
ReplyDeleteI never cease to be amazed by the amount of stitching you do, Nicole! Great work as always. :)
ReplyDeleteYour chocolate box is coming around real well. Very pretty! So is your canvas work!
ReplyDeleteWOW, nice work!!
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