Frederick’s Head - update #3

Last night I finished the brown book, Frederick’s front paw and put the titles on 2 books (Rat Hole & Corporate Fat Cats).  I also started backstitching Frederick’s face.

Frederick’s Head - update #2

I’m still working on Frederick’s head and front paw. I also backstitched around the green book and the left side of the Bye Bye Birdie book. I’ve almost completed another 2 books on the right.

Here is the whole project.

Frederick’s Head - update #1

Here is a close up of Frederick. I’m almost done stitching his head. I did complete another book (Bye Bye Birdie), just need to do some back stitching.

Here is the whole project.

Frederick’s Head

I made some more progress yesterday on Frederick’s Head. He now has some ears.

Ravensburger - John Deere puzzle

Last week we worked on our 3rd puzzle for this year. My husband grew up on a small family farm, so he loves building puzzles with farm scenes or tractors.  His family didn’t own a John Deere tractor, but they are very popular. This is our 2nd John Deere puzzle we have in our collection. 

I did lots of stitching over the weekend. I finished the fish, worked on 2 more books and last night I started Frederick’s head.

Puzzle and more books

This week finished our second puzzle for 2022. This one I chose because of the photo. It is called The Cozy Shed. It looks like a place I’d enjoy spending time in. It didn’t take long to build because this is only a 1000 pc Ravensburger puzzle. Not sure which puzzle we will build next.

I’m continuing to work on Frederick. I did the first book on the top and bottom shelves. Now I can see how tall it will be. I will continue to work on the books on the top shelf for now. When I don’t want to count I can continue stitching the top and bottom shelves.

Garbage Can Guide

I completed another book title “Garbage Can Guide”.  I love the colours of the book spines. They are so bright in real life.

 

I’m almost to the bottom of the project.

2 book spines

Monday I spent the afternoon and evening completing the first and second book spines. There are 26 books in total.

Puzzle & Books

Last night we finished our first puzzle of the year.  My youngest son Jordyn and daughter-in-law Sarah bought us 2 Ravensburger 2000 piece puzzles. We completed one so far. It took us about a week, but we didn’t work on it every day. There is no name of the puzzle, but it does say Zoe Sadler on the side of the box. I’m guessing it is the artist who created the design.

This was the hardest puzzle we have ever built.  We started with the border as usual, then thought we would do the wood boxes/shelves around the items. That didn’t work, so we worked on the labels/tags on each bottle and then filled in the spaces around them to connect everything together. It was weird looking at the puzzle half way through with all of the gaps in between. We usually work in sections and feel like we are accomplishing something when we get an area completed. This one was a challenge from start to finish. I thought of the Harry Potter books and movies every time I read a label because they are magical potion ingredients.

I’m still working on the first book, but I did finish the title.

Happy New Year!!

I’d like to wish all of my fellow cross stitchers a happy and heathy 2022! I hope we all find time to stitch. I spent all afternoon and evening cross stitching while watching Netflix. I thought I’d have more progress, but I forgot how hard it is to see on dark fabric. I also went back to using my scroll frame and floor stand but the fabric is too large, so I have to turn my frame sideways to stitch. I think tomorrow I will remove it from the scroll frame and go back to stitching in hand, I find it faster to stitch using the sewing method.

Frederick the Literate

Here is my progress from today. I only worked on the red book today.