Good morning and welcome to another three-weekly update on Viennese Waltz. I've had a good three weeks. Actually, that's not entirely true, this last week has been awful, but in terms of cross stitching I've had a good three weeks. I think it's mainly because I have an embroidery project and a beadwoven bracelet that I want to get started on, but I never seem to have the motivation and it's easier just to do some more cross stitch!
Here is where I was three weeks ago:
I worked on the pink/red background piece first, then I had to move the frame. Here is a picture from before moving the frame:
I took that one indoors one evening so the colours are terrible, but it shows the progress. After moving the frame I did the pink/red background strip on the left and half of the man's leg/dinner jacket:
I've finished the first page of the two-page chart so I'm more than halfway done. I'm going to have to go to Hobbycraft to pick up some more thread though as I've run out of a couple of colours and another couple are going to run out soon. Don't you just hate that? I just have to figure out if the numbers refer to Anchor or DMC or if they're just totally made up!
You can go and see what the other participants have been up to here:
Claire, Avis, Gun, Carole, Alison, Jule, Elizabeth, LucyAnn, Kate, Cathy, Jess and Jacqui
It's time for another update on my Viennese Waltz cross stitch piece. So here is where I was 3 weeks ago:
And here is where I am now:
I have done loads! I've filled in all the background "spikes", I've also finished the purple background and started the pink strip. I've stitched a little of his leg and added more to her dress, along with filling in any gaps I had.
Let's hope future updates will be as successful and I'll have this done in no time!
You can go and see what the other participants have been up to here:
Good morning ladies and gentlemen. It's time for a Stitch Along update. As you know, I finished Save the Stitches and so I had to dig out another WIP to work on.
I chose Viennese Waltz by John Clayton, a counted cross stitch kit. I stitched another kit in the series, Tango 5 years ago, that was my third ever blog post! I started this one about a year later, but it got packed away. Here is how it looked three weeks ago:
I think I know why it was packed away, I've discovered a lot of mistakes in the purple area! I'm just ignoring them and working round them, it's not vital to the design. Here is where I am now.
I've actually done quite a lot of that background, it's just difficult to see. I'm going to plug on and get the background finished before I start the next page. I took the photo with the frame resting on one of the bunny runs, so I thought I'd snap a photo of the occupants.
The other two were hiding from me.
You can go and see what the other participants have been up to here:
