Meari's Japanese Garden

I attended a retreat a couple weeks ago and worked exclusively on JG.   Here's what it looked like at the start of the retreat:

 My goal was to finish the 6 o'clock branches.  Tada!

I also finished the left and right bridges, the blue border, and started the gold metallic.  Woo Hoo!

Meari's Japanese Garden 2/8/2016

Am I the only one participating on this blog??

Last time, I finished the lower left corner.  I've moved to the lower right.  Some progress is better than one, right?!

 

Meari's Japanese Garden Update

Haven't worked on this since May 2014. (And it looks like I'm the last one to post an update here!)  Over the weekend, I had a "mini" finish.  I finished the lower left corner ornament.

Meari's Japanese Garden Update

I'm almost finished with the third corner ornament! Woo Hoo...

 

 

Other WIP photos can be seen HERE.

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Japanese Garden Update

 

I've made a bit of progress since my last update.  I've stitched the entire back square and a good part of the lower left corner ornament.

 

 

 

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Other WIP pics can be seen HERE.

Japanese Garden Update

I pulled out Japanese Garden.  With any luck, I hope to have it finished by the end of 2014. 

I did the purple specialty stitches on the right side and the water/bridge on the right.  I also did the blue sparklies in both crane medallions.  It's been quite a while since I've seen the bottom part of the pagoda!

 

 

Other WIP photos can be seen HERE.

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Meari's Japanese Garden

I've made some progress! Here's what it looked like before:

 

And now:

 

Other JG WIP photos can be seen HERE. It's pretty cool to see the steps along the journey.   To answer Chris' question... I have found stitchers who had the colors I was short on so hopefully, I will have enough to finish JG.

Meari's Japanese Garden Update 3/18/13

I’ve made quite a bit of progress since my last post.  Here’s some updated photos:

 

Other JG WIP photos can be seen HERE.

Japanese Garden Update

Other WIP photos can bee seen HERE.

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Meari's Japanese Garden

Japanese Garden Update

Stitched by: Meari   Years ago when I kitted up the Chateline Japanese Garden, I decided to go with the Victoria Clayton Hand-Dyed Silks. Vikki suggested the conversions and I went with it. I recently visited her website to order the colors I was low on and didn't see them. So, I emailed Vikki and found out that the colors I need have been discontinued! Yikes... I am enlisting the help of you, my devoted readers and vistors. Do any of you have some of her silks in your stash that you're not using and would be willing to trade or sell to me??

These are the colors I need:

(Photo clickable to enlarge)   Irish Moss Lichen Mint (or Lighest Mint) Pine Ocean Walnut   If anyone can help me, it would be greatly appreciated!!

Meari's Japanese Garden Update

I pulled out JG last week and worked on it.  I've finished the top blue border and am working on the gold parts of the border right now.  Here's what it looks like:

Other WIP photos can be seen HERE.

Meari's Japanese Garden 7/23/12

Other WIP photos can be seen HERE.

Meari's Japanese Garden

More progress! Here's what it looked like on 4/5/12:


Here's what it looks like now:

Other WIP pics can be seen HERE.
I've got the entire corner ornament done except for the specialty stitches.

Meari's Japanese Garden

I worked on JG last week and ended up frogging a small section because I stitched one of the bonsai trees ONE stitch too tall. That one little stitch threw the bottom corner of the corner ornament off. Since everything on JG is so close together and contains specialty stitches, there was no way I could leave it and stitch around it.

Here's what it looked like on 3/19:


And now:

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Other WIP photos can be seen HERE.

Meari's Simply Elegant Finished!

Simply Elegant Scissor Case and Fob are finished... Woo Hoo, another UFO outta the way!

Designer: Lorri Birmingham Designs
Started: February 2009 ~ Finished March 2012
Fabric: 28ct Zweigert Cream Linen
Fibers: Needle Necessities, DMC, Kreinik
Embellishments: Satin Ribbon, Pearl Beads, Crystal Heart,
Czech Crystals, and Handmade Cording and Tassel
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The pink fabric is what I used for the lining and the back of the fob. I think it looks really good with the stitching. These projects contained several specialty stitches I'd never done before: Rhodes Butterflies, Queen Stitches, Diagonal Queen Stitches, and Hardanger. While I think both turned out beautiful, the instructions on how to assemble each one left a lot to the imagination. I think someone with little finishing experience would've been extremely frustrated.

Meari's Simply Elegant

I now know the trepidation of making that first cut on Hardanger stitching! Yikes!! I bit the bullet and did it, though. Apparently, I did it correctly since the Earth didn't shatter or anything like that.


I finished up the stitching on Simply Elegant scissor case, and started the beading. I may just keep working on it until it's done since I'm soooo close anyway. Then I'll be back to working on JG.

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Meari's Simply Elegant

I didn't get much stitching in last week... I think I was procrastinating because I didn't want to work on the specialty stitches involved in my next UFO/WIP. Turns out it wasn't the specialty stitches that gave me nightmares, it was the regular cross stitches! I had to rip a set of leaves out THREE times. They're still not right, but I'm not about to frog them again. Can you tell which ones are messed up?

Here's what it looked like before:

12/11/09
(Yeah, it's been THAT long!)
Here's what it looks like now:

Other WIP pics can be seen HERE.
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Meari's Japanese Garden

Black, black, and more black! I worked the entire north black border and northeast corner ornament. Here's what it looked like before:


And now:

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Other WIP pics can be seen HERE.

Meari's Japanese Garden

I finished the 9 o'clock Garden and cherry branches!

Here's what it looked like last time:


Here's what it looks like now: