Little Snap Dragon: Fifth Post - Framed

I had some fun framing this one.  It wasn't difficult for me to pick out the mats, I did have to go through a few before I found just the right colors, and I had to play around a bit before I got them in the "right" order though.  Then came the frame.  I was stumped.  My sister was with the other framer working on getting her own pieces framed but I called her over for help.

She grabbed a few frames, including one the the most expensive frames off the wall.  And that frame, which I never would have picked on my own, looked awesome!  Dangit!  This is a huge piece and of course the larger it is the more expensive it is to frame, but none of the other frames just worked the way this one did.  So I bit the bullet and said frame it.

Without further ado, here it is:

It is huge.  I'm pretty sure I know where I'm going to hang it, hopefully it fits there.  I guess I'll find out when I get it home.

Dolphin Trio is the only piece left that I haven't posted from my most recent framing expedition.  But I still have plenty of old pieces that I still need to share.

Little Snap Dragon: Fourth Post - Complete

Little Snap Dragon got enough love to get finished.

Here he was about a week back with most of his wings completed:

Here he is completed:

Project Stats:
Pattern: Little Snap Dragon
Pattern by: Kustom Krafts
Started Stitching: January 11, 2013
Finished Stitching: March 6, 2013
Fabric: 14ct. Khaki Aida
Floss: Kit Floss 2 over 1

I'm not sure what I'm going to do next, if I'm going back to Transcendence or not.  I might do a quick small project.

Little Snap Dragon: Third Post

I finished up the color I was in the middle of and did the last of the greens.  When I say greens I mean the turquoise and teals as well since the bulk of those were in the stems and the dragon.

I was going to stop there, really, but I got a little carried away and did a few of the blues:

I'm going back to Transcendence for a while before coming back to him.  There are seven colors left so I don't think I'll be able to keep him locked up.  It's interesting, the two projects I'm heavily working on right now have a very similar color scheme.  I just hope I don't get tired of blue, purple and green!

Project Stats:
Pattern: Little Snap Dragon
Pattern by: Kustom Krafts
Started Stitching: January 11, 2013
Fabric: 14ct. Khaki Aida
Floss: Kit Floss 2 over 1
Percentage: 68.33% complete
Stitches: 8,267 out of 12,098 complete

Little Snap Dragon: Second Post

I'm an idiot 2 times over.  One, I ordered the wrong thread for Samurai.  Doh!  Two, I got a bunch of thread to work on another small project but forgot the fabric to stitch it on.  Oh well, at least Little Snap Dragon finally got some more love!

In this picture there are four more colors completed:

I was thinking of posting when I took that picture but held off since I've already made quite a few posts recently.  But I've done over a third of the piece, and here he is right now:

I only have a few more greens left before I go on to the blues and purples.

Project Stats:

Pattern: Little Snap Dragon

Pattern by: Kustom Krafts

Started Stitching: January 11, 2013

Fabric: 14ct. Khaki Aida
Floss: Kit Floss 2 over 1
Percentage: 36.08% complete
Stitches: 4,365 out of 12,098 complete

Little Snap Dragon: First Post

It's a new year and I have a new start.  This is Little Snap Dragon by Kustom Krafts.  There appear to be a few ways to get this chart.  You can just get the chart or you can get the whole kit, I bought the whole kit many years ago.

I'm considering this a "small" project.  It's mostly empty space, so there's not a whole lot of stitches, but it is a rather large piece on the included 14ct. Aida, it's 13" x 18-3/4" (33 x 47.5cm).  If the kit hadn't come with the fabric I probably would have stitched it on 18 or 16 ct.

I started working on this because my eyes were upset with me stitching black on black.  Also, I found a pretty big mistake in Magical Arrival that will require me to pull out some stitches, so that bummed me big time.

I think this is actually the first project I'm working on by Kustom Krafts, but I love this little guy.  I've done two colors since I started working on him Friday, they're kind of hard to differentiate in the small pic, but trust me, there are two colors there.  I think I'm going to do two more colors before I go back to my black on black.

Project Stats:

Pattern: Little Snap Dragon

Pattern by: Kustom Krafts

Started Stitching: January 11, 2013

Fabric: 14ct. Khaki Aida
Floss: Kit Floss 2 over 1
Percentage: 13.44% complete
Stitches: 1,626 out of 12,098 complete

Last week I finally got the thread to complete Columbina for my Mother.  I gave it to her at Christmas anyway, but now I need to get it back to complete.  So I should be posting a finish soon on that.

I also have another start that I'll post soon, but it won't be one of my main pieces for a while.  I really do seem to have quite a few things I want to work on and the days just don't seem long enough.