Long time, no post……

All right, it has been a couple of weeks since I posted. The reason for this is that Paul decided that he didn’t want to continue our relationship. We broke up three weeks ago and I have been feeling terrible since then.
My problem is, that actually, nothing happened. We had two or three busy weeks, which meant that we just didn’t spent so much time together, but we didn’t fight or something like that. I had a feeling that something was wrong so I talked to him and so he broke up with me. I knew that things could have been better, but nothing that bad. I know that a relationship is a lot of work and I am more than willing to put that work into a relationship. If something goes bad, you have to talk about it (man hate talking, I know….), which may be difficult but in the end you can make things better. We have been a couple for 15 months, so I know that things between us could work if we just tried. So I am sad that he just threw away everything because of a few bad weeks. Even worse is that he also isn’t able to give me a reason for this. He says that his feelings are gone, but when we were on holiday a few weeks back, everything was fine (I asked him about it and I think he was honest about it). We have been living together for just 6 months, I mean you don’t decide to take a flat together if you know that things are going downhill. When we were on holiday he could imagine going on another holiday together and such things. I told him to be honest, to tell me if anything happened, even if there was another woman or so, because what I hate most is if someone lies to me. If he tells me the truth, I may be hurt and angry at first, but in the end I’ll be glad that I know what happened and that he was honest. And after so many months and living together and everything I think I deserve to know the truth. ( If I ever find out that he lied to me about the reason hell will seem like a very pleasant place to him). I also think it would make things easier for me if I knew why this happened, I just feel like everything happened way to fast (I friend of mine described this as “it’s like someone died but you can’t find the body”).
Well, since I still love him, I feel really bad. I want to roll into a ball and cry all day. I feel like throwing everything away (like my studies), run away from everything and hide somewhere. Some days I just wish that I won’t wake up in the morning. I know, I have to carry on, throwing things away won’t make it easier and so on, but sometimes I don’t know where to find the strength to go on.
Apart from feeling miserable I have to move once again. I found a new place and will move there next week, but this means a lot of work. I spent yesterday running around and buying things (and cleaning the place, because it looked terrible here and it looks like Paul doesn’t feel responsible for this). I have most things now, there are a few I still need to pick up, but at least I don’t have to go and look for them first anymore. I have to pack my things, which will take some time (I will use the opportunity to throw a few things away, make room for new things and so on…). At least we had the same ideas about who gets what of the furniture we bought together, so that problem is solved.
And apart from that, I have a Bachelor thesis to write, on which I am way behind the schedule (I wanted to have it ready by the middle of july, I fear that won’t work…), I have two lectures at university and I have to work. In general, I have absolutely no time to cope with a broken heart and moving right now…

“All right lady, why don’t you just pick up your needle, do a bit of stitching and calm down?”
Because I can’t pick up my needle =( I tried, but I just can’t get round to do some stitching. When I look at my stitching, I remember all the time I sat next to him and stitched, how he was fascinated by this, (how he complained that I bought to many charts) and such things. I have been able to wind a single bobbin since we broke up, but most time i just sit there and do nothing. The lovely ladies on facebook told me that it’s okay and that I should not push it, but I just feels weird. Stitching filled my days, when I got home and felt tired, I picked up my stitching to relax.
These lovely ladies also suggested that maybe I should start something new that Paul hasn’t seen before and therefore doesn’t have a connection to him. Maybe that’s a good idea and I will do my best to give it a try. Maybe it will work and I can also pick up my old projects in time.

But here are some “old” pics for you anyway… I finished page 13 on Kreimhild on 13th May, here she is

And a few new charts I got back then
Adolescence by Martha Dahlig

Dragons Keeper by Rene Biertempfel

And one I got a few days ago (I know I should not buy charts now, I spent enough money for furniture and such things these days….)
Winterborn by Tiffany Toland-Scott

I know I didn’t comment on your lovely blog post, I read them , but I just don’t have the time and energy to do any nice commenting things these days =/ I will try to be better once things are settled…

I love that face!

Isn’t she beautiful? I love how her face turned out =) It’s amazing how the colors work together and how real she looks =) There was some confetti around her mouth and beneath her chin, but it looks amazing =) I’m a bit sad that her face is as good as done, but I still have some hair to stitch and that’s great, too =)
I wish I had more time to stitch these days, but life is (like always) pretty busy. I plan on finishing the current page (just one column and a partial column to do) next week and I guess I won’t blog before that is done. Then the lady will leave the frame and make room for something else. It’s Rheingold’s birthday next month so I’ll probably take that one out.
And I want to do more on QS Theatre… The third page will come out at the end of the month and I am not even done with page one! I hope to be able to finish that one during the month so I feel better
I did some work on it during the last week, but not much. It gained some 400 stitches which brings us to a total of 5000 stitches on this one. So a quarter of this is done… Still a long long way to go…..

There is a small part of that funny guy’s head there, I must say that I love the color of his hair! And it motivates me to stitch on this because I want to see more of him

As for the current 45% off sale at the Haed site…. I’m not buying anything, I’m not buying anything, I have enough charts till the end of days, I’m not buying anything, I’m not buying anything……

YOTA #5

So, it’s time for YOTA again…. Time to show my immense progress on my UFOs… Except there isn’t so much progress…. I kicked myself to get Kreimhild off the frame and to put Aurora Cabin on it, so I had a small amount of progress to show. It’s not much, but still a bit and after all, this is about taking the thing out during the month

Here is what Aurora Cabin looked like last time:

And here is how it is currently looking:

I filled in a bit of blue at the bridge and also continued to close the gap between the cabin and the lake, but there is still much left to do there I guess I will leave this on the frame for a few more days (at least for today) to pay some attention to it, but Kreimhild will be calling soon enough. I just didn’t find the time to stitch on her, so her face is still only halfway done.

As for Paris Market, there is even less to show! I took this one out yesterday, too, and put in a few threads of green… You can see a small change in the tree….
Last time:

And now:

If you need a little motivation to get your own UFOs out, feel free to join the us here

I’m off now to do some stitching =)

Happy stitching!

WIPocalypse April (and very late IHSW….)

Do you know these times when you just don’t feel like blogging? That’s how I felt for the last weeks… I’m pretty busy with university, but I manage to get a stitch in then and again. I actually took a pre-IHSW of Kreimhild, but didn’t get round to showing it. And I didn’t really hermit, but Kriemhild still gained one column… okay, I put a few stitches in last night because I didn’t get any stitching done during the last days….

And it’s time for WIPocalypse again! Didn’t I just post about Wipocalypse? Yes, I did………… And the only project I worked on since then is Kreimhild! =(

I will try to improve…. The page on Kreimhild is 2/3 done and I will put her down for a while after that and pay some attention to my other pieces…. I am terribly behind with the BB SAL and I am not sure if I will meat my goal of finishing it this year…. But there are still a few months left and we will see what comes….

Since I just showed a pic of Kreimhild’s progress after last WIPocalypse I will skip that. I will present a pre-IHSW pic instead. Here is how she looked last Thursday:

And a pic taken just 2 minutes ago:

She has a face! eeek! Her nose looks a bit odd, but it looks like it has to be like this (I have examinde the original artwork). But I love how she is turning out any way! =) I think her face looks beautiful and I am eager to finish it =)

By the way, I ordered the missing threads for Noble Spirit. I could’t help it, I have a lot of wonderful charts and they all call to me in a certain way, but this one is just screaming But I can’t say when I will start it because I am so busy. It could take me a few months to find time and start this But I decided to order the threads so I can wind them and I needed some 779 for Rheingold (fingers crossed there won’t be any dye lot problems…).
But I will try and catch up with your blogs now.

Happy stitching =)

YOTA and WIPocalypse – a page finish and stash =)

Yes, I know, I’m a bit late for March WIPocalypse…. But I somehow didn’t feel like blogging… I still don’t and therefore I think I will keep this post short. Since it is YOTA-time today I will begin with that, even if it#s not much…

I barely touched my UFOs during the last month and hope that will change again. March just flew by!
I took Paris Market with me on holiday but I didn’t put in a single stitch while we were there. We were outside for most of the time and if I was at our room in the evenings I felt like reading instead of stitching. I tried and picked up Paris Market yesterday so there would be something to show, but I lost my mojo after a few stitches.
Last time:

And now:

You can see there is a tiny bit of progress in the sky and even less in the houses…. It should not be to difficult to beat that next month………..

And I must confess, that I didn’t touch Aurora Cabin at all….. Could be because I can’t get Kreimhild off the frame ;-D

Which brings us to WIPocalypse!

First up is my dear Kreimhild!
Here is how she looked last time:

And now:

We have a page finish here! Page 12 is finally done and I already made a small start on page 13 (the cameras required some power when I wanted to a picture, so I stitched while waiting ) I stitched a bit more that 1000 stitches last night because I wanted to finish the page so dearly
And can see the brown bit in the right corner? That’s HAIR! Oh my! Looks like the sky is coming to an end. And her face will very soon appear

Next up is Theatre, which also gained a few stitches (not as much as Kreimhild, but 500 have been added since last the post):
Last WIPoalypse:

And now:

The next blocks seem to have less confetti, so the next 300-400 stitches should fly by. But first I need to be able to put Kreimhild down

Finally, stash……
I just fell in love with this wonderful chart and after all, there is a sale!
It’s called Noble Spirit by Jody Bergsma (she has been retired in 2009 but now she’s back )

I thinks it’s a stunning piece of artwork and hope it will not be to long until I can start it

But I’m off now to “face” Kreimhild ;-D

Happy stitching =)

Happy Blogversary =) =) =)

I can’t believe that I’m here for two years now! Where did the time go??

First of all a huge THANK YOU to everyone who visited my blog during the last year, all my love to those who wrote me such lovely comments and last but not least my admiration to my 34 followers =) You brighten my day =)
Sometimes I feel like there is no end to my stitching projects (those days when I am tired of denying it ) and then your kind words and cheers keep me going =) Especially when the world seems to consist of sky ;-D

As for sky… I did some work on Kreimhild during the last week, she gained exactly 473 stitches since Thursday (I returned on Wednesday night). But first of all a very old pic, here is how she looked one year ago:

And this is how she looks right now. She gained nearly 17000 stitches during the last year (it didn’t feel like so much….):

You can see, I am not yet done with the sky, but we are getting closer to her face, slowly bu steady. I actually hoped that I would get more done on her and that by now a part of her face would have shown. But that’s how life is and I hope to finish page 12 this week, it’s about 2200 stitches to go =)

Next update is on Theatre, which I started in January, so no 1-year ago picture. Theatre gained some 400 stitches since you last saw it. These days I am stitching a 10×10 square on Theatre and move to Kreimhild afterwards. Maybe I will stay with this Method for a while It’s a good balance between confetti-hell and block-stitching-heaven.

And yet another new start during the last year:
Das Rheingold by Kinuko Craft popped into existence in June last year =) It has not been touched for a while now. It’s on the schedule, I guess when I’m done with the first page on Theatre I will switch to this for a page. Here is how it is still looking:

And yet another new start from last year… Yule Angel by Anne Stokes:

While I am writing this I start to feel guilty about so many new starts… And I fear there will be some more this year……..

So here is a small finish I managed during the last year
One year ago QS Book End Kitties looked like this:

And it was finished in October last year =)

I must admit that I still didn’t get round to framing this……… Well, maybe next year ;-D

And since this is an anniversary and you usually get presents for your birthday and since my blog doesn’t care about chocolate or shoes or so, I saw myself forced to buy a few charts to make my blog happy =) Because charts will mean more stitching, which means more pictures, which means more lovely people coming around and paying hommage =)

So here we go!

First one is a Haed Design called “Soft as Steel” by Julie Bell

Look at these abs! Again Julie Bell created such a powerful design, I just had to buy it! But this looks like a big amount of sky-like-background-stitching….

Next up are two designs from Paine Free Crafts. These are my first charts from this site, it’s still quite new and offers only a few designs (so far and compared to Haed, I sometimes doubt that Sarah sleeps because charts seem to pop so often) and there are a lot more coming up (in her facebook group she shares new designs). Well, she charted a few wonderful Lord of the Rings patterns, like the two I got.

The first one is called “Farewell to Lothlorien” by Alexandra V Bach:

I think it’s really beautiful, all the blue colors and the rich detail. Lothlorien always amazed me and I had no choice but to get this. It’s a huge designs, 750×450 stitches!

Next one is not actually Lord of the Rings, but from the Hobbit. It is called “Dwarven Leader” and shows Thorin Oakenshield. I guess a few of you have seen the Hobbit (which I totally loved!) and have seen him I could spent age looking at his eyes After all, he went to my chart and Legolas didn’t (so far), I never thought this could be possible

I think in the near future I will write a small entry about the charts from Paine Free Crafts and the one I got from Love Thy Thread. I don’t know how you feel, but I am always interested about how big the charts are (stitches per site) and how it is structured and so on.

But this is enough for today, I’m going to get some stitches done today
I hope you guys will accompany me for another year full of stitches =)

Happy stitching!

Kreimhild, Theatre and stash =)

So, this is a pre-vacation post. Tomorrow, boyfriend and I will go to Egypt for 9 days. This will hopefully mean a few days of rest, sun, sports and good food
Therefore I’m doing a post on Sunday and about both the SAL piece and Kreimhild.

First up is QS Theatre of the Absurd. I think that wheel is now as good as finished, so less confetti ahead! I did 1000 stitches on it and hope to be able to do a bit more tonight. I love how this is turning out and it’s definitely worth all the confetti =)

Next up is Kreimhild:
I did 2040 stitches on her, still nothing more than sky to see….

And now, finally, the ultimate truth about my stitching… The point is, that I’m not doing the stitching myself. This is the lady behind everything:

In between sleeping, eating and running in her wheel, lady Sofia manages to do a bit of stitching

And since I love animals I got her a bit of new stash =)

The first is a Haed-Design. I won a gift voucher some time ago and spent it on this design. The original artwork is by Matt Stewart and is called “The Shield Maiden“

Eowyn is one of my favorite characters, so I was very happy to see this charted But I fear it will be some time until I start it because “A passion for the future” is calling to me to start it

The second chart I got is from Love thy Thread. Bev, who is running this site, has raked me with a chart of my choice. I picked “Dip” by Kathey Amaral.

I have not yet stitched a chart from Love thy Thread, but I have seen some WIPs and they look wonderful.
I wish I had more time to stitch, so I could start this one, too But as I just told you, I have this magical stitching-hamster here and if I don’t watch out, it will just order the threads for this and start it! ;-D

I will post again when I return from my vacation. I will take Paris Market with me because it’s easier to carey than my Haeds.

Happy stitching =)