Heaven Above...Progress

It's been a while since I shared my progress on Heaven Above so I thought I'd do a quick post to catch you up.  This one has become my Sunday stitch.  I seem to be able to stitch for longer periods of time then.  Although lately, since the weather finally warmed up, I've been outside on the weekends more.  Let's have a look at where it is now.

Progress as of 2-15-15

Here we are last time I shared progress back in February.  I was still working on Snooty then and really not devoting much of my time to this one.  It's a good start though.

Progress as of 4-30-15

Here we are last Thursday. I have to tell you I had a repeat visit from the frog.  See that big flower, yep, stitched it three times!  Oh yes I did.  Turns out the angel wings are what was throwing a wringer in the works.  It's hard to tell from the top picture, but I had put an extra square at the bottom of each wing and that threw everything off.

Thankfully the third time I stitched it I started working motifs down on the lower left which brought me up to the big flower again and to the realization that there was something still not right.  Normally I'd say whatever and probably leave it.  However there is not much wiggle room between these motifs so some of them would be running into each other if I did that.  Funny thing is, it's been off since January.  LOL!  Darn frog!

Progress as of 5-5-15

So since I got that sorted out, I decided to fill in the sky.  I've been making myself stitch at least one length of sky floss each time I sat down with this one.  Last Friday I went to stitch with some peeps and worked just on the sky.  I was tired from working all day and needed a "no brainer" kind of stitch.  Filling in is about as "no brainer" as you can get.  By the time I left, I could easily see myself finishing up that section.  So last night, I buckled down and got it all done!

I really like how it looks!  It's one of the parts of this sampler that drew me in.  It still reminds me of the Hornbook.  I think because it's nearly the same shade of blue.  I also love the tiny pup angel.  There's a kitty angel too but I haven't gotten that far yet.  There are a lot of fun little motifs yet to stitch!

You may also have noticed the tail and feet above the pup angel.  That's going to be a bird.  It's charted for CC Plum Paisley.  The skein I have is really dark and almost what I'd call a royal purple.  I'm thinking I'd like to find a different skein that's a bit lighter.  So for now I'll just have a body-less bird till I can get to the LNS to look for something different.

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So now we are all caught up on Heaven Above.  I plan to keep working on this one at least on Sundays and maybe more throughout the month.  Right now I have my May assignment to do on Speak to the Earth.  Can't wait to share the progress on that one too.

I hope you all don't mind these progress posts.  I feel like they aren't the most exciting posts but I like having a record of where I am on things.  As always, I very much appreciate your visits and comments.  I hope where ever you are you are making progress too!


Until next time,

The Inspired Stitcher