Taste of Mediterranean

When my mom was visiting me we went to Michael's together and she ended up giving me this Dimensions Kit as gift. I thought it was so lovely I ended up working on it immediately and got it done in no time (for my standards). I started this right after I finished the Geisha.

May 8th, 2011

May 11th, 2011

May 26th, 2011

May 29th, 2011

And the process of adding background and back stitch

June 26th, 2011

July 5th, 2011

I can't wait to get this one framed!

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

Three Little Pigs

My marriage plans were a little weird, as I was going through an immigration process that would give me the proper visa to move from Brazil to Puerto Rico, to be able to get married to my Luis. In that process I had to spend a month in my brother's house, in preparation for the interview that would take place in Rio de Janeiro (at that point in time I was living in my parent's farm in the Amazon). During that month I decided to stitch this series of cute pigs. 

I did the trio with the fence in a matter of days, but the other two ended up being a project for after I got married. I finished the watermelon pigs last (about 2 years ago) and now they're all sharing wall space.

My return to Cross Stitch

In 2006 I was visiting my grandmother, and as she lives in a small town there wasn't much to do. I was bit bored and ended up finding an old Italian Magazine (Suzana, 1993) with a beautiful dining room sampler pattern, and as I had just gotten engaged I decided I'd stitch it for my future house. I hadn't stitched in 10 years but that same day I went out and got the fabric, floss, needles, scissors and started work on it. So this is what brought me back to stitching, and I proudly have it hanging on my dining room wall.