42. San Man Originals Band Sampler Round Robin

For Kathy's San Man Sampler

The whole piece as it left me:

36. Just Nan Round Robin Band Sampler

For Linda's Band Sampler Round Robin.

My bands came from Nan's Garden.  

I stitched almost exactly as charted, the colours fitted perfectly.  

I did change the satin stitched fence to ecru because the white didn't show up too well.

31. Rahenna's Band Sampler Round Robin

Snivy is Rahenna's favourite Pokemon so she used the colours as inspiration!  She also sent us a lovely collection of Lesa Steele and Patricia Ann samplers to choose our bands from with strict instructions not to use any other colours other than those provided under threat of being attacked by an angry Pokemon!

 

My bands chosen from Lesa Steele's Sweet Harmony

Side shot to show beads

The whole piece as it goes on to Kathy.

25. Sweetheart Tree Band Sampler Round Robin

Karen's Sweetheart Tree Autumn Band Sampler.

Bands from Heirloom Roses 

with added squirrel from Brenda Keyes.

Fabric is 28 count Jobelan from Under the Sea Fabrics.

The whole piece so far:

20. Mirabilia Baby Round Robin

This was a top secret project for our dear RR friend Rachel.

She discovered that she was expecting a baby so a group of us decided to stitch a "Mirabilia Baby and Child" themed project for her.

My bubble comes from Fairy Tales, a Mirabilia chart from 1996:

Mirabilia - Fairy Tales

I chose this design because of the book.  The most wonderful thing you can do for a child is to instil a love of books by reading to them.

16. Just Nan Band Sampler Round Robin

 Broader bands from Sweet Rememberance and the narrow bands from Cynthia's Sampler.  

The charted colours from Sweet Rememberance worked well with a couple of tweaks.

These are my bands

And a diagonal shot: 

And this is the whole piece, taken in a different light.  It is very hard to get the colours quite accurate.

The fabric is Garden Princess by Sugar Maple Fabrics (in case you were wondering!)

09. Just Nan Band Sampler Round Robin

Bands taken from Just Nan NeedleStory

Stitched for Measi's Bold Band Sampler

I used the colours she provided plus some additional lilacs and beads.



The whole piece so far:

72. Mirabilia Round Robin Titania, Queen of the Fairies

Titania, Queen of the Fairies for Rachel's Large Mirabilia Round Robin.

Stitched on 28 count sparkly evenweave.

The whole piece:

From left to right we have January Garnet Fairy, Adia, Fairy Idyll (Lenna's colour conversion) and Titania.

60. Mirabilia Round Robin Lilly of the Woods

This is my piece for Andie's Round Robin on the theme The Dreamers.

And here is the whole piece:

The top space is empty for Andie to stitch Sleeping Beauty, then it's followed by The Dreamer stitched by Orchid Julie and Sleeping Princess stitched by Karen Stitchy Woman and finally my Lilly of the Woods.

46. Mirabilia Round Robin Shimmering Mermaid

My Mermaid is Shimmering Mermaid for Karen's Round Robin.  She is beautiful with her lovely free-flowing hair.  Karen stitched the shells and seaweed first then specified which parts of the mermaids to stitchso they are not confined to boxes but float on the sea of her fabric.

And here is the full piece, only one block to go.  This is a Large Mirabilia RR, each block is 5,000 stitches rather than the usual 2,500 so we have been given longer to stitch each round and there are three groups of four stitchers.

Final completed piece:

34. Sophia's Celtic Band Sampler RR

Sophia's theme was a series of Celtic Knot bands in rainbow colours.

I stitched yellow and orange.

26. Mirabilia Round Robin for Julie

Julie chose Angels as her theme and designed this incredible layout herself.  The fabric is PTP Heather Lugana and is really soft and lovely to stitch on.  Archangel Michael is one of the less stitched Mirabilia designs which is one of the reasons I jumped at the chance to stitch him.  I don't think I'd ever do the full piece for myself but it is nice to stitch something different.

There is a ton of metallics, beads and treasures even in this small piece of the design, 12 of those little topaz diamonds for a start.

Finally finished piece:

11. Joan Elliott Round Robin 2012

Joan Elliott Round Robin 2012

stitched on hand-dyed Crafty Kitten evenweave.

6. Indigo Rose Band Sampler Round Robin

Stitched for Linda on 28 count evenweave.

Bands taken from "Margaret"

74 - Kathy's Sweetheart Tree Round Robin

Above is my heart and below is the whole thing as it goes on to Sophia in Australia.

There's a little gap in the centre of each heart for Kathy to add a charm.

71 - Joan Elliott Sweet Pea Fairy

Debbie asked for Fairies, Angels and Goddesses.  Originally I thought of Winter or Poppy.  But Winter faced the wrong way and Poppy wasn't blingy enough!  Luckily Joan releases so many new designs  I was able to find the perfect Fairy in the guise of Miss Sweet Pea.

68 - Cat's Autumn Band Sampler RR

Cat's lovely Indigo Rose Four Seasons Round Robin.  She stitched four boxes with a central diagonal band across each then we could choose a section to complete.  I chose Autumn because I'm an Autumn baby and I loved the colours.

What I did not love is the frog that hid under the leaves!  I really like satin stitch as a rule but this was a PITA.  First of all I stitched one segment using the charted 3 strands.  That was lumpy, bumpy and not smooth.  So I frogged it.  Then I used 2 strands which was smooth and lovely to behold.  Until I'd stitched all five segments and found they didn't reach the top.  When I looked again and counted and double checked I realised that  you need seven stitches to cover six threadson the fabric, the seventh stitch being the outside edge of the block (make sense?).  So out it all came again!  I re-stitched and now it looks lovely again.

60 - Joan Elliott Round Robin Fairies in my Garden

Stephanie took the Fairies in the Garden design by Joan Elliott and made several individual leaves.

I chose this one because the Pixie reminded me of the Small Boy examining leaves and flowers in the garden.

Stitched on 28count hand-dyed evenweave.

56 - Sweetheart Tree Summer Round Robin

Sweetheart Tree Summer Round Robin for Karen

Stitched on 28 yellow evenweave

As it left me:

The finished piece:

51 - Joan Elliott Unicorn

Joan Elliott Unicorn

Stitched for Michelle's Round Robin