What a Surprise! and Talking About UFO's

Do you remember this rug?

I started working on it last summer? fall? See, I almost forgot about it!

Then my sweetheart and I went for the business trip and I forgot the rug at the hotel.
Somebody left an advice in the comment to contact the hotel and ask them to ship it to my address. I did and have never heard back from them.

Oh what a surprise! I've got the rug today in my mailbox!

I guess this is my UFO I have to finish in January!

Have a creative Thursday!
Natalia

Green Aubusson - Week 5

Here is a little progress on the Green Aubusson rug. I didn't devote as much time to it as I wished, anyway I am moving forward.

Enjoy your Sunday!

Natalia

Green Aubusson on Printed Canvas - Week 4 and OT

Here is my slow process on Green Aubusson.

I miss real size needlework a lot. Being busy with the commissions, preparations for the shows I didn't have any time for my own projects. I always wanted to try Crazy Quilt. I signed up for the on-line Sharon's class "Encrusted Crazy Quilting" that started on the 26th of July. I looked through my stash of fabric and found pieces that I wanted to put together in one block. Among them there was a table runner with nice texture, I cut a piece from it.

Here is how my first block ever looks like. It is 12" square and there are 12 pieces of fabric.

Last but not least I've managed to re-upholster the dinning chairs (real size, not miniatures) today. I like to make changes and arrangements in the house. This is the perfect time of the year to do it and make it another comfortable way to enjoy long winter.

This is how it looked before

This is how they look now. I like this way better.

This picture shows 4 but there are 6 of them:

By the way, do you like the rug an on the background. I am thinking about charting the design for 1/12th scale. I am sure it will be a beautiful rug for a dollhouse.

In between I tried to work on Vanessa's new shoes. It is a long long process, so to be continued....

Enjoy your weekend!

Natalia

Green Aubusson on Printed Canvas - Week 3

Today is time to show the update on Green Aubusson. I started working on the background and picked up this shadow of green color.

Haven't done too much and a reason is that last Saturday the temperature finally dropped down to 77 F and we decided to have a mini vacation - to spend some time in Idaho hiking, fishing, riding bikes. We were advised to go to Steven's Lake.

When we arrived to Wallace, ID - the closest town to that lake - it appeared that nobody ever heard about the Steven's Lake and nobody could advise us where to start looking for it. The magical Internet advised us to go to Mullan, ID that is 5-7 minutes from Wallace by a car. Little dying town Mullan looked pretty fricky and scary with only one motel with broken windows and ripped wallpaper that you can see through the open front door, and a gas station out of business. There was nobody to ask about the Steven's Lake. So, we turned around and went back to the hotel in Wallace.

Later we knew that Wallace, Idaho is considered to be the Silver Capital of the world, Center of the Universe

and the entire city is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Couldn't resist not to take a picture of a piking abandoned bus close to the local old cemetery. It reminded me a scene with an abandoned car that SANS!!!inator made recently with her helper Nat.

Since we couldn't find the Steven's Lake, on the way back we stopped at the beautiful Rose Lake

and my boys caught some catfish - yummy!!!

After that we took an exit to check out the Couer-d-Allene lake and went for a little hiking on the Beautiful Bay with scenic view. This is only small part of that amazingly huge lake.

Next day evening we came back home and the city met us with a thunderstorm, lightnings and rain. The sunset was beautiful, unfortunately my camera didn't capture all incredible colors we saw that night in the sky.

The rest of the week I spent in the bed trying to get rid off cold and temperature that I got after our little vacation.

Now, back to stitching - still a lot of work!

How was your week?

Natalia

Green Aubusson Rug on Printed canvas - Progress 2

It is still hot here - 100F. Last night a little line of lightnings was teasing us promising a good rain but, alas, we are still hiding inside the house.

Today I wanted to show a little progress on a dollhouse miniature Green Aubusson rug that I started last week.

Not much has been done, but I am satisfied with this little progress taking to the consideration that I've been working on other 100's UFO.

Enjoy your weekend!

Natalia

New Commissions - New Rugs

I got a commission for these 2 Dollhouse Miniature rugs:

Green Aubusson Rug (authentic 18th century French design) on 18 mesh canvas with a printed design on

and Red Oriental Rug on the 18 mesh canvas with a printed design on.

Both rugs measures 8" x 10" and the kits are came with wool yarn.
I substituted the wool yarn with DMC Cotton Perle with different color shadows.
I started the Green Aubusson already as you can see on the image and I am not very happy with stitching on the printed canvas, because the design was not printed even and I have to count in order to come up with a nicely finished rug.

You can see I have a lot of projects going on at the same time. So many projects - so little time...

Natalia