Tuesday 20 January 2015

Winter Hat Owl Progress, aka Blue, Blue and Blue


I just finished page 5 of Winter Hat Owl a couple of days ago, and I thought you might like to see the progress.   The next page I actually get to start the hat.  But until then, MOAR BLUE!

That being said, I'm already 32% done this project.   I'm surprised by the amount of confetti in the actual owl.  I guess I never really looked at the pattern that closely.   Oh well, at least it's beautiful, vibrant bright colors - the antithesis of Adrift. 

Enjoy. I'm already well into my next page of Adrift, and I should have an update for you in a few weeks time.

~Rai Rai

12 comments:

  1. I can imagine all that blue feeling a bit monotonous at times! Well done with all the progress.

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    1. It was a bit. It was actually 3 colors of blue, but at least the stitching was fast. There wasn't too much to really mess up! That was a bonus!

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  2. Thats a lot of blue! But such a great project :)

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    1. I really like blue, but yeah, 37000 stitches of it was quite enough.

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  3. I love this owl, it will be great when you get to stitch it, so much blue, I think I would have just stitched the owl on pale blue fabric well done with it so far.

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    1. I definitely thought of that....after about 2 pages in.... Next time!

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  4. Lovely blue progress so far. I bet you'll be glad to get onto some colour! :)

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  5. Wow, that's a lot of blue. I'm curious, how many different shades of blue are there in there?
    It is very pretty blue!

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    1. It's mostly 2 colors of blue, with the occasional stitch of a 3rd color. But the 3rd color is very sparse indeed. Like about an average of 4 stitches per page.

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  6. You are such an amazing stitcher! Beautiful blue background and it's exciting that you have hit a bit of the own in the next page. Looking forward to more of beautiful Adrift! xo Alicia

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    1. Why thank you! Such lovely words!
      I don't know what it is about stitching, but if I could, I would sit on my bum all day and do nothing but stitch.

      The owl is coming along beautifully, by the way. There is SO MUCH CONFETTI that I have taken to doing a line at a time using the parking method. It's so time consuming. I actually timed myself and each line takes me between 40 minutes to an hour. Just one line! But I am loving the colors and I'm loving the results. I couldn't have picked a more perfect project to bounce Adrift off of.

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