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
Stitched by Meari
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.
Stitched by Meari

Meari's Challenge Projects

I have two older projects for the UFO Challenge. I started Japanese Garden in 2006. Despite her prodding in 2011 (Ahem, Vickie!), I didn't get much done on it.

Japanese Garden
12/28/2011
I started Simply Elegant years ago also. For a while, it was my lunchtime project when I worked out of town. Since I no longer work out of town, it got put to the side. I want to finish this one.

Simply Elegant
12/28/2011