Chris's start

I started this on thursday and love it already! I am waiting for the gold thread as the original firm I ordered it from didn't have 4 cards in stock, so.... I decided to get that and the beads from another firm and so will be watching Mr Postie on monday.(Suddenly remembered our Postie is a woman!!) Thank you for all the tips about sewing on the beads I was shown to sew them on double to make sure they were secure and I think I will do that as I am going to attach them as I go and not leave them till all the stitching is finished.

Thank you again for all the helpful tips.
Happy stitching all and have a good week!
Chris x

Word

 

The A-U-T was added today and I hope to have all the fiddly-bits around the A completed tonight.  I wanted to finish the word Autumn before I started on her hair.

Beads querie

Hi All

I have started my Celtic Summer and intend to post a pic on monday when I have stitched a little more. I just wondered how you were sewing on your beads, do you use a coloured thread that is near to the bead or an invisible nylon thread?

I have had to use the DMC Conversion threads as I couldn't get Needlepaints they seem to be no longer in production. I am loving stitching this and it is going to be hard not to do just this!!
Thanks
Happy Stitching and Blessings

Chris x

A new start

"Samhain" is officially started (again!). It is a conversion of Autumn to represent the Celtic holiday Samhain. My cat had destroyed my first attempt, and then I waited till halloween to start over. So now I can play with this one for awhile, but not enuf progress to take a pic just yet..

Chris all kitted up!

Hi All
I am Chris I have been stitching for some years altho had a break when life stresses took over but in the last four years haven't stopped stitching and manage to stitch most days. I saw Kathy's lovely work last March and then Lynn's as well, at the beginning of this month at a lovely stitchers day organised by Lynn, so I have taken the plunge and decided to do something big!! I have become a Celtic Lady follower and have 'Summer' all ready to go.I am using 28c Jobelan Evenweave colour Silversage from Polstitches and all DMC threads as most of the Needlepaints are now discontinued.
Can't wait to get started but have one more motif to do on my Beatrice Potter Quaker to reach my months target of three motifs before I can allow myself to begin this!!


Happy Stitching everyone, if anyone wants to chip in with advice that you think I might need, I'd be most grateful.
Chris x

Lynn's Celtic Christmas

Hi all

I am new to this SAL so thought I had better show how far I have got with my Celtic Christmas...

I started this on Saturday 19th September 2009 and have done some on it every day since. This is because I am loving it some much. Thank you Kathy for encouraging me to have a go at one of these. I was also bought a Lowery stand by a very close friend for stitching this.. ain't I a lucky girl..lol

Here is my progress so far....



I am stitching it on 28 ct Zweigart Brittney in Natural and the fabric colour doesn't show up well in this pic.

When I have finished this one I have Celtic Spring kitted up and waiting in the wings. I really want to stitch all these

Hugs to all xx

Karen's Celtic Autumn

Hi there everyone! Long time, no see. Hope you're all well. I have popped along to see what's happening here every now and then and your celtic ladies are coming along beautifully :o)

Since I left the group in Kathy's wonderfully capable hands in April I haven't really had much time for stitching, until this last couple of weeks when I have managed to fit in a few hours here and there. I thought I'd pop on and show you my 'very, very slow' progress:



I'm not sure when my next update will be as the next six weeks is going to be a bit chaotic here so I might not have much time again for stitching. Mind you, Kathy is coming over for a visit in two weeks and my young one will be at his Daddy's that weekend so no doubt there will be a lot of stitching going on then!

Hi Everyone :D

And thanks Kathy for accepting my pretty please :D

I'm Andie, you may have seen me around as Stitchitandie.

Currently I am stitching Celtic Spring. Here she is



Previously I have stitched Noel for my Mum, Summer for my cousin (in a dmc conversion) and Autumn in a colour conversion for me. As I want to do the whole set for us I have a few to go :D Oh and my Mum just requested Winter as well....

*hugs*

Andie

Thanks Kathy

Hi Kathy

Thank you for allowing me to join this SAL...

I am stitching Celtic Christmas at the moment and I will post a progress pic over the next couple of days. I have been working on it for 3 weeks now and am thoroughly loving doing it.

I have Celtic Spring to do next. I want to do all of them but need the charts for Autumn, Summer and Winter. Does anyone have any of these charts for sale ??

Can't wait to see everyone progress over the coming months.

Hugs to all

Lynn xx

Here is where I got to so far

Here she is soo far, I was hoping to have the lettering finished but didn't. Will make sure they are finished on Monday next week.

Hoping you ladies will join me in stitching these gorgeous ladies up. This is my second one and I am hoping to get her finished before Christmas, then in the new yr I am start on Celtic Christmas

Before pic - Update coming tonight

Here is my pic of Celtic Summer from last time I stitched on her. I have frogged the gold thread as I didn't like it, I shall be using Petite Treasure Braid instead. I will post a progress pic tonight.

Hi All

Hi Everyone

I have finally gotten back into stitching big time, and have Celtic Summer back on a Scroll frame. Lets get this group up and running again. Looking forward to getting back to my Monday Celtci Stitching again.

Hope you are all gonna join me.

A Celtic Spring Finish!

Here she is all finished! I'm sorry that I have not been so good about posting updates. My camera is not that great and time has been short. It may be awhile before I can start the next Celtic Lady, but don't worry...I'll be back.

seeing progress

Here is "Lammas" at 7 hours progress. The fabric looks gray but it is Dusty Green jobelan. Most of the 'morphing' is done- the easiest way to deal with it was starting with the yellow undersleeve and finishing each area of the costume before moving on, though she has a couple of blank spots there, it's nothing major affecting the split. She will have Autumn's hairstyle but in Spring's colors, and once the hair/face are done it'll be simpler to just work off Spring's chart instead of both. Still it was a simple endevour once I got into it more, and I'm happy with how she's turning out so far.

New and happy to be here

Hi everyone, my name is Kate (Kowgirlkat on the bb's) and I've been working on the LL Celtics for several years. My goal is to have a set of Celtic holidays so I've been busy with lots of conversions. So far, Mabon and Imbolc are finished and Beltane, Ostara, Lammas, and Lithia are in different stages of progress, and Samhain and Yule await to be started. Currently working on Lammas which is a coversion of Autumn and Spring morphed together, when I get enuf progress I will take a pic. Other conversions include some Lord of the Rings inspired ones, and an Ireland one. I also plan to do Xmas just as she's charted. Lol, I think I'll be doing Celtics forever. But I'm happy to find an on-going SAL for them!!

Getting Going Again

Kathy starting this SAL again was just the incentive I needed to get me working on Celtic Autumn again. Previously I was finding that I liked to work on her on Sunday but the Wimbledon Final got in the way of that this week so I picked her up again on Monday. I set myself the target of finishing off one of the braid cards I had and getting the trim on the bottom of her dress done.

As you can see I actually ended up doing a little more than that, but that was because I didn't achieve everything I wanted on Monday so I worked on it yesterday as well.

All but the metallics and the beading...

Well, I finally got a fire lit under me to finish her. So I've put in quite a bit of work and as you can see, I finished up all the DMC cotton full crosses. All that's left to do now is the metallic and the beading. She is a focus for my home stitching this month, so we'll see if I can git 'er done, (in the words of Larry the Cable Guy.)

Celtic Spring

Lavender & Lace

WIP as of 4/27

Celtic Spring

Lavender & Lace

WIP as of 7/5

I meant to post this before I went away.

I hadn't realised it was so long since I'd last posted any pictures of Celtic Autumn (in January) on this blog.

I have been working on her over the last few months, although not on a regular basis. She's now too big for my hoop and has been transferred to my scroll frame.

I shall now make an effort to stitch on her at least once a week and to post updates on here each week.

UFO Night Maybe?

Just did a long post which blogger then ate!
Anyway, in short, rotations aren't working for me at the moment and so for some time I've just been stitching on what screams, which hasn't been my Celtic Autumn...
But I've been thinking that I really do want to make progress on her somehow, and so have wondered about choosing one night a week when I work on her, call it a UFO night maybe? Not sure on a night, maybe Monday would be good for me, but don't suppose it matters as long as I can do one night a week. Even one stitch would be better than nothing right?
At the moment I'm doing a course and that doesn't finish til the UK school hols start in 3 weeks, so til then my stitching time is tiny and I don't want to commit until I really can make an effort. Would anyone be interested in joining me just to put some stitches in your Celtic each week, one stitch or one hour, or one night, anything?

Still here too

I'm still here as well and will hopefully be picking Celtic Autumn back up soon.

I had to put her away for a while because my needle paints went missing. But they've turned back up now, somewhere I looked several times too! So I've no excuse to leave her sitting in the box of UFOs.