Allie's January Progress: Nearly, but not quite...

Here's my January Progress. I'm pretty close to done, but didn't quite pull it off!

I thought about stitching diligently until midnight, but champagne & treats are more tempting

Happy New Year, everyone!

January Progress

This is my progress on Beatrix:

I took this picture on 1/17/09

And this is my progress as of 1/30/09.

Hope you like my sampler!

January Progress

Not much progress this month as I changed my choices from 28ct over one on the called for Zweigart linen to 36ct Lakeside Examplar linen over 2 threads, but still using Vikki Clayton's Fishpepper premium silk. I was not enjoying the over one and doubted whether I would finish, much happier now stitching over 2!  The picture is a little dark, will try to take a better photo next month! 

Ruth Rachel V.'s January progress

I only have a small start but I am happy with how it looks so far!

My linen is 32 ct. Golden Promise by Sassy's Fabbys
and my threads are Pumpkin 1 and 2 by Victorian Motto.

Rita's January progress

Hi girls!

As January is my busiest month workwise, I hardly had any time for stitching this beauty. However, I decided to restart mine, as that old linen sitched over one was very hard to do, and I wanted this to be a relaxing stitch. So I decided to do it on a sand linen (40 ct) with the same 902 DMC I used before. This is how it stands so far. I know it's not much, but still a start... Hope to do more in the coming months.

Julianne's January Progress

I didn't get much stitched this month due to several home improvement projects that we have going on right now here.

I did decide to stitch the piece on 32 count desert sand linen and I'm using Gloriana silk in Mulberry color.



I look forward to being able to make more progress in February and I've really enjoyed reading everyone's posts and seeing all the lovely projects. Keep up the good work!

MARIAN'S JANUARY PROGRESS

I'm really enjoying this piece. I like to stitch important dates into some of my pieces, which I did with this one. I cheated a little and stitched some on 12/6 and 12/24, which were important to me. They are the first 2 emblems on the left side.

Elisa's Progress

Well here is my progress on the sampler, I am really enjoying this design, I am stitching it on 32c Belfast Linen in Antique Ivory with DMC threads 3041, 3042 & 3865. I had hoped to get a little more of this done but I have ended up as usual signing up to too much lol!!

Hugs

Elisa x

Sandy's January Progress

Here is my progress for January. I'm using the called for 32 ct linen and DMC 221. I usually stitch holding my project in my hand. I have found that this is very large so I went and bought some Q-Snaps to help me control all the fabric! Stitching is much easier now.

Jeanne's January progress

This is where I stopped for this month. I'm splitting my time with 2 other new starts this month so I won't be picking up Beatrix again until February. I am really enjoying stitching this although the big medallions take longer than you think they would! Everyone's sampler looks good and it's fun seeing so many different color choices. I am using Lakeside Linen's Vintage Maritime White with Waterlilies 'Chili' silk, some of Vikki Clayton's Fish Pepper line and a Needlepoint Silk.

Jeanne (Willow Tree Stitcher)

Jamie's January Progress pic

I've finished two and a half motifs since January 1st, and I have this group to thank for the motivation.

January 19 progress

I stitched a lot more than this in the past 3 weeks, but since now have 12 WIPs (that I'm counting:) 10 of them Quakers, the rest of my stitching this month was on a few of those other pieces.

A lot of people have commented on the way I skipped around in the design in the first picture. That's one of the things I like about Quaker medallion samplers. You can "sketch out" the medallions across and down the sampler 10 1. Make sure you have enough fabric and 2. Get a good idea of what the finished design is going to look like and a sense of accomplishment/excitement fairly quickly.

Thanks for the motivation! I look forward to having a finished Beatrix this year!

Margie K's January progress photo

Thanks to Hazel for letting me play along with all of you. I've had Beatrix in my stash forever and needed something to get me going. :-) This SAL will be perfect. Rather than my floss toss, I'm posting my stitching test since I'm going to go with the combo I picked out. I'm stitching mine on 35 count Mushroom from Vikki Clayton using Winterberried regular silk floss, one over two. I'm not sure yet which days of the month I'll be working on this. I'm thinking Sunday's to start.

Sally W's January Progress Take 2

Here's my progress from this Tuesday. Monday evening's stitching was a wash out so it came back out Tuesday!

Beth's Progress

Here's my first update. Started January 1, 2009.



Everyone's pieces look beautiful!

Beth

Annemarie's floss toss and progress

This is my first post on this blog, and it very nearly didn't happen at all. I had the worst time finding the right fabric and floss for this project. I wanted it to be good, because I've had this chart in my possession since it was published by Needleprint a couple of years ago and I was determined to make it one of my special projects. This SAL was the perfect excuse to start, and hopefully finish, it before I die of old age.
After about eight false starts I found what I think is the perfect colour combination for this sampler: I'm stitching this on white 32 count linen, with the DMC linen thread collection. If you put these linen threads together, it's like looking at a Beatrix Potter drawing. Interestingly, the 'normal' DMC equivalents have a very different look about them. Anyway, I'm stitching this one thread over two, and here's my first progress pic:


You like? I do. One question though, if you would be so kind as to help me out. Although the entire linen collection looks good with all the threads together, I'm leaning towards using only the pinks, blues and browns, as you see them at the top of my picture, rather than using all of the colours. What do you think? Shall I use them all, including the greens and the creams, or should I stick to the pinks, blues and browns?

Before I go, I just wanted to say all of your work is incredibly inspiring and gorgeous. Keep up the good work!