Animal Babies - Finished!

I wanted to start the new year with a finish so I've been holding off on posting in the new year.  First, I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year!  Hope 2012 is a fabulous year!  I am clebrating the new year with my 101st post, and a fabulous finish!  Those of you who have been following me these last few months know about my best friend who is very special to me.  I wanted to do something for her to celebrate her becoming a mom for the third time!  So I searched and since I had always wanted to do these adorable Animal Babies by EMS I decided to give it a go.  I picked out the animals to match each of her children.  And I would like to share the results with you.  You have already seen the finished products of the first two, but I have them now framed so they are totally completed now.

I wanted to try my hand at framing them my self to see if I could do it.  I was a little hesitant, but thanks to my fellow blogger's tutorial , thanks Joyse!  I was able to do it, and I have to say I am very happy with the results, hope you all like them too.  Bare with me and my multitude of photos!!!

Baby Caterpillar



Baby Hedgehog

Baby Peacock!



All Three...

I hope my friend will love them as much as I do, otherwise I will keep them!!!

Now that this is done, I am back to stitching my HAEDs.  I will be starting the new year with a new start QS Siberian Forest. 

Happy Stitching all!

~~~Vani~~~

Animal Babies - Caterpillar Day 9 & 10

Thats it!  He's finished!!!!  He is so adorable!  the backstitching wasn't that bad, but I still would rather not do it!  Where I did have a problem was with some frogging I had to do. I had trouble centering his name at the bottom.  But after much frogging and going back and forth I got it!  

Day 9

I finished the last bit of blue!

Day 10

And here is all the backstitching done!

And finally with the baby's name!

And now on to Hedgehog!

~~~Vani~~~

Animal Babies - Caterpillar Day 8 - And IHSW

Hi all, I just have one more color to stitch and he's done.  And of course the back stitch, after much consideration and listening to my fellow stitchers I realised that I was panicking for no reason.  In actual fact the back stitch is just for the little Caterpillar.  I just haven't done much backstitching, so it always seemed daunting to me!  We'll see how it goes!  And this weekend is IHSW (Check out the link on the side bar) so I hope to have this one finished and start the Hedgehog for IHSW.  I was trying to decide between Hedgehog and Peacock, but one of my followers suggested that I keep the colorful one for last!  And I quite agree!  So this weekend Hedgehog it is!

Day 8

Not bad for 8 days!  I never thought it would be like this!  Maybe I will give that baby afgan a thought!

(as if I don't already have enough on my plate!)

~~~Vani~~~



Animal Babies - Caterpillar Day 7

Nearly there!  The flowers are filling out nicely!  I love the color blue!  It really stands out next to all that green!  The shading in the flowers is great, I wasn't expecting such subtle color changes, and when I step back from the piece the result is fantastic!

Here are my Day 7 pics:



A close up of the face!

Not long now!  Hope to finish this weekend and then pick up the next one.  I cant' decide which one to start!  The Hedgehog or the Peacock.

~~~Vani~~~

Animal Babies - Caterpillar Day 6

Day 6

Blue!  Loving the splash of color!!!  Can't wait for this to all fill out!!

Hope to add much more blue tonight!!!

~~~Vani~~~



Animal Babies - Caterpillar Day 5

Day 5

He's really filling out, and the leaves are looking good, I think the flowers are next!  And then the backstitching of course!

I am very happy with the look of the leaves!  Its amazing how much detail a few stitches can make!

Until the next day!

~~~Vani~~~







Animal Babies - Caterpillar Day 4

It was a long weekend, but not as much stitching as I would like.  I hope the next few days are better, I think a few solid days should be good to make some good progress on the little guy!  Thank you so much for all your comments, they really motivate me to keep stitching!!!

Here is a couple of pictures from the fourth day of stitching, I didn't get to him yesterday so tonight will be Day 5!

Day 4:



I thought to fill in the leafs surrounding him.  I may go back to him soon, I am dreading the back stitching involved.  For those of you who have done a EMS design, how bad is the back stitching?

Happy Stitching!!

~~~Vani~~~

Animal Babies - Caterpillar - Day 3

I had a busy day so only two colors this time!

 

 

 

He's looking quite adorable!

~~~Vani~~~

Animal Babies - Caterpillar - Day 2

So the little bug seems to be coming along nicely!  Here is day 2's results!!!

Sorry if some of the pics are out of focus!

~~~Vani~~~

Animal Babies - Caterpillar

Hello all! 

So my best friend just gave birth to her third child and I have always been meaning to stitch her something, so I finally came up with the nerve to do it.  And I thought what the heck, the other ones are little enough (3 and 1) I might as well make something for them too.  They can always keep it in their rooms.  So I decided to pick a Animal Baby pattern from Ellen Maurer-Stroh's collection.  The first one I picked to stitch is the Caterpillar Baby.

I made a start with him, I am calling it him, cause the baby its for is a him!!!  I will add his name on the bottom after finishing. 

This time I thought it would be cool to take a picture after adding each color to the chart.  So far last night I finished three colors..So here they are...





They are being stitched on 18ct white aida!

Happy Stitching!!!

~~~Vani~~~