The Introverted Crafter

Well it's Easter, and the weather is miserable. I swear you can look out of the window at ten minute intervals and the weather changes wildly from blue skies and sunshine to freak hailstones. Ah well, good thing I didn't make any plans! I have been working on the aurora stitch. Haven't finished one colour yet cos I switched to black, hoping it would help me map the area better.  It's not bad progress really for two weeks. Still, I'm on the easier part of it at the moment.  I've also made a couple of necklaces, one using purple and silver beads, the other using multistrands The second one looks better on.  Until next time Ems

 I've been working on the new stitch. I'm hoping that I can do one colour at a time, at least to start with, so that it's easier to do subsequent parts. The colour I'm doing at the moment is for a lot of snow, including on the trees, so if I do it right, it should set me up nicely.  I've also made a pair of earrings using the chainmail method, where you loop a third jump ring into two using a Venn diagram. I think it would have worked better with thicker jump rings. Until next time Ems

Finished a cross stitch!!!! I love these photo realistic stitches. Mainly because they just use whole cross stitches, and my current one uses....all kinds of stitches.  I'm sticking with the whole stitches for now, leave the more complicated stuff for later.  I also made a necklace and matching earrings.  Until next time Ems

 I've made a platform pop up card for mothers day, using mainly lawn fawn products, with some tim holtz ephemera for the butterflies.  I've also been working on the stitch. About 1000 stitches to do till its finished now.  Until next time Ems

I've made a birthday card this week, using the Lawn Fawn platform pop up card. It wasn't my original design, as I wanted something a bit more fantastical, a bit other worldly, but my original plan didn't pan out.  It still looks good I think. It's all Lawn Fawn, aside from the balloon, which is Tattered Lace, and the sentiment, which is Tim Holtz.  I've also been working on the stitch. 95% done now and I really wish I'd kept the Labyrinth stitch out rather than packing it away where I can't find it! Until next time Ems