Happy New Year

Well, it's a new year. How exciting! I had a very uneventful evening at a friends place playing board games, but it was a good time. Hope everyone else's nights were good.


Anyway, onto stitching. Below is a picture of the secret santa piece I made up.

Sadly it's not the best picture in the world, but it is now on the other side of the world (in Canada!) so nothing I can do about it. I am very proud of the finishing (I've only ever framed things before. I made the cording myself! I must admit there were a few nasty words and tears in the making. The lady I sent it to said she received it on the 23rd so I'm glad it made it before Christmas.


The picture below is the completed stitching for my Christmas round robin. I am absolutely loving this piece to bits! The colours are great, there's sparkle in the border. It's just so lovely. It will be sent off in the next few weeks (now to 13 other places). I will look forward to getting it back, hopefully with some nice additional pieces :)



Below is the finished picture of my Paris project. All framed up. Again, I did the framing myself. What bitch of a job! It took ages. But my parents loved it and said they had no idea I had been working on it. Go me!! Now to pick where to hang it...


And lastly:
Now that I've finished all my extra projects etc, I am back onto the Stroke of Midnight. I did a little bit of work on her before Christmas, which is the photo below.

But then, compare with the work done in the past week. I am on absolute fire with this bad boy! I can't wait to finished it. It is so complicated and intricate. Give me solid blocks of colour any day. I think I'll finish it within about a month. Then I'll dance around, put it in my finished projects bag and not think about it for about a year.

Anyhow,
that's it for the moment. Thanks for having a read. Sorry I haven't commented recently, it's been that crazy time of year. Hope everyone is feeling suitably righteous about the New Year's resolutions, I know I am :)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

No seriously, it is! :)

I am looking forward to Christmas. Although I'll still be teaching my classes at the gym over the break, they only take up one hour at a time, and I won't have to do any 9-5 style work! Hooray!

I have a couple of bits and pieces to report.

I finished my naughty/crafty cat. He's so cute!!

Hehe, he puts me in a good mood. Now I'll hopefully be sending him off sometime in January so that he can have some cat friends join him :)

Once I finished the cat I began work on my part of the Christmas Round robin I joined. The pattern is from Cross Stitch Collection issue 162. I really like it so far, although the sparkly threads are a massive pain in the ass. Should have this finished within the week.

Lastly, I received my Secret Santa from 'Jay' hidden identity in Canada. It looks great! and is sitting above my computer where I can see it. Bit of a bird-Christmas theme this year so far...

I will keep you posted on other goings on up until Christmas. As soon as I've finished my wren I'll be picking Stroke of Midnight up again...hooray!! :)

Paris is Finished!!!

Hooray! I finished up Remembrance of Paris. See picture :)

I'm very pleased with it! And go me for persisting with all the drab colours. The only disappointment is that the pattern I got for this (which was bought off ebay), did not include background details:

I suspect that it was originally a stamped kit, but as I bought it from somebody potentially dodgy, I missed out. Oh well, I think my parents will like it anyway (and they need not know that there's parts missing ;) I just need to wash & iron it, find a frame, cut up the mount board, frame it, wrap it, and put it under the christmas tree :)

This means I can now finish off my cat round robin, stitch up a christmas pattern, and then I can finally get back to the Stroke of Midnight. Woohoo!

Thanks for stopping by, it's absolutely lovely receiving comments! :)