Sakura Geisha

Unbelievable! I haven't stitched since June, but I'm now getting back to it by picking up this one that I haven't stitched on since February. I did a little progress and baring some details, the top half of it is now completed.

Sakura Geisha

I worked on her again this week, so for Leap Day I thought it was time to share where I'm at.

02/29/12

Sakura Geisha

I traveled to Brazil over the Holidays and put away all stitching for a few weeks, but I'm back to working on my Sakura, although the past weeks working on her weren't great, as I made a mistake that had me frogging a week's worth of stitching.

January 16th, 2012

January 29th, 2012

Sakura Geisha

With Misaki looking so good I couldn't wait to start on Sakura, as I believe they'll look fabulous with black mat and frame on the wall. I'm using the same idea I used on Misaki, going with a bigger fabric, less back stitching, to make it have a more tapestry feel and again will be adding 30 stitches to the width of her so they're both the same size.

My start includes my curious kitty's paws. =p

Misaki Geisha

This is the first of two Maia charts I inherited from a friend of my mom's, they were originally part of a kit but the materials had already been used. I had planned on doing them as a tapestry, using wool and going really big with it, but simplifying the pattern, but I scraped that idea. 

What I decided to do instead, was making it bigger and simpler while staying with the Anchor colors listed in the chart. So I went with white Aida 11 ct, and stitched it without the 1/4 stitches, and ignored most of the back stitching. I also added 30 stitches to the width of the project, to fit the frame size I wanted. 

Misaki is the first of the two Geishas, and I worked on her on and off from February 2010 to . Here's her progress over time.

April 16th, 2010

April 21st, 2010

July 20th, 2010

May 6th, 2011