You Are Never Too Old: Third Post - Framed

So I have all the items I framed, I just haven't taken any pictures, except one.  You Are Never Too Old.

Here he is:

One of these days I'm going to buy a camera to take better pictures, but my digital camera is so old that my iPhone takes better pictures. :S

I'm pretty sure I'm going to hang it somewhere near my bed.  Seems fitting in my opinion.

I'm been trying to make progress on other things, I've been working on Transcendence today, but I don't have near enough to post about it, it's slow going, my favorite navy blue on that black fabric.  I just have to keep telling myself it's going to look awesome when done!  Must stitch, must stitch, must stitch...

You Are Never Too Old: Second Post - Complete

So this one's been MIA for a while so here's the short version:

I messed up and didn't feel like frogging at the time.  I put it away.  Apparently I put it away too well and lost it.  I decided to look for it again the first week of July and found it in a place I swear I looked in a million times before.

So I frogged two sides of the border and redid them, correctly this time, and did the last two sides, and the pink of the dragon's ear.  Everything's done except for black and gold.

I next worked on the gold.  The scales on the dragon hardly took any time at all.  But the words just seemed to take forever to do.

And finally, the black of the nostrils and the backstitching.

Project Stats:
Pattern: You Are Never Too Old
Pattern by: Dragon Dreams
Started Stitching: March 7, 2013
Finished Stitching: July 7, 2013
Fabric: 28ct. Dusk Cashel Linen
Floss: DMC 2 over 2, or 1 over 2 Kreinick #4 Braid
Percentage: 100% complete
Stitches: 2,861 out of 2,861 complete

There's a big sale at work right now on framing.  I'm going to see if I can finish the Signets before the end of the month when the sale ends.  Pelagic is next.

You Are Never Too Old: First Post

I found another free pattern created by Jennifer Aikman-Smith of Dragon Dreams.  This time it was on the Kreinick website, so most of the pattern is Kreinick thread.

Sometimes I think she has some sort of insight into my life, especially with this one.  Considering I still have my teddy bear since I was 5 years old, making this seemed like a no brainer.  Of course I do have to change the color of the bear again.

I went with a dark mottled fabric by Picture this Plus called Dusk.  I stitched the green first:

I did most of the rest of the dragon:

Now time to add the teddy bear:

Project Stats:
Pattern: You Are Never Too Old
Pattern by: Dragon Dreams
Started Stitching: March 7, 2013
Fabric: 28ct. Dusk Cashel Linen
Floss: DMC 2 over 2, or 1 over 2 Kreinick #4 Braid
Percentage: 65.22% complete
Stitches: 1866 out of 2861 complete

I can't seem to find my gold braid at the moment, so I can't finish up the scales on the dragon.  I'll probably have to wait until I get back home, I didn't put it with the rest of my braids, so it has to be floating around my place somewhere.  I'm going to go to the border at the moment, then I might work on something else.