Tuesday 27 October 2015

The Elements Series is Complete!

Finally the series that has sat in my stash for four years is complete and all in a week's worth of stitching!  Crystal Waters and Fresh Air have been added to the pile of finishes for the year.

For all three of the samplers I used threads from stash, I happened to have the majority of silks and cottons required, but I used different beads and metallics to what was called for.   The charts called for Kreinik  but I'm a Rainbow Gallery girl :) and I have quite a collection of random Mill Hill and Delica beads so it's always a good feeling to be able to use stash!

Bead Storage
 

So here are the finishes, firstly Crystal Waters:
 
 
Crystal Waters by The Victoria Sampler
I love the little silver metallic whales!
 
And then Fresh Air:
 
 
Fresh Air Sampler by The Victoria Sampler complete!
Rhodes butterflies - one of my favourite stitches!
Thankfully the delicate hardanger section survived!
 
I've also picked my threads for Operation Threadporn this month.  Originally  I had planned to stitch another freebie, pulled threads and fabric for it, but then came up with better options - the only problem being they were fabric and threads which were not in my stash ha ha!  So that idea has been stored for another day and I went with a different freebie which has already been stitched up and is waiting to be finished.
 
 
October Thread Choices
 
So that's my past week in stitches!  Not sure whether I will accomplish all the goals I had for this month, but a possible six finishes is not to be sniffed at I guess!
 
Thank you to all of you that stop by and to those of you that comment on my little stitching adventures!
 
Happy Stitching!

14 comments:

  1. Congrats on your latest two finishes, they really do look great and must have been a joy to stitch.

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  2. Two more beautiful finishes and in such subtle colours. Congratulations again! :)

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  3. Beautiful finishes Amanda! Loving the dark green threads.

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  4. Gorgeous! My favourite of this series is crystal blue waters. I love the blues!

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  5. Your finishes are beautiful.Great to see them close up on your blog:)
    I love the threadworx red thread.

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  6. Wow!! Huge congratulations for finishing the Elements! Very, very delicate on Fresh Air and lovely work on both.

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  7. It's great to see all your finishes. They are really beautiful. Can't wait to see what you have in store for us next year!

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  8. beautiful stitching on a beautiful series

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  9. Wow congrats on the finishes! They're lovely :)

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  10. Congratulations on two amazing finishes. I love all the different stitches and effects in each one.

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  11. So gorgeous! Congrats on another two finishes. I can't get over how delicate and beautiful they are! :D

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  12. Oh my, how delicate and fine they look. Congratulations on these finishes. Quite simply gorgeous. I also try to use threads and beads from my stash instead of buying new ones that are usually hard to get here. And I feel good using up my stash.

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  13. Th samplers are gorgeous as always. Love your work!!!!!

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