A few Finishes

Wow its been a week since I posted. I have been very busy trying to get some finishes for the month.




First up is my Easter Banner, yay I have finished it early normally Im desperately trying to finish it the night before.

Do you like my beanie kid, its Fluffy the bunny and he has a new home for awhile in the Easter basket and he will go onto my Easter Table. I will fill up the basket with yummy easter eggs. Love easter egg chocolate.





Second is my October Quaker, as you know Im doing all 12 of them. Started with September and going from there, yeah I know it was a weird place to start but I wanted to do them in the month that it was. Ok so now its February and Im behind LOL. I will catch up somehow. No its not the light Im using dmc floss that is varigated, just love how it looks on these.


















Finally here is my first mouse pad called Busy cat, I have to say I loved working with vinyl canvas.

A Partridge in a Pear Tree

Phew I finally finished this one. It was taking forever and its now February and I have to make a start on 2 Turtle doves. I love how this is looking even if I do say so myself. LOL This is Jim Shores 12 Days of Christmas and I hope to get one done per month and finish them off in time for Christmas 2011.

TUSAL February Update

Here is my progress so far, I have done lots of stitching this past month, I have really enjoyed it. You know the only worry I have had is that someone will take my jug and think it needs emptying and washing.

Arnotts update

No not about biscuits but the cross stitch Im doing...LOL... I am loving this one. I hadnt worked on it since before the crazy challenge so it was time I did a bit more on it. I finished up all the red in the sign on the bottom, just about drove me mad but its all done now. Here is a before and after shot.







Now that I have done a bit more on Arnotts its time to revisit all those new wips I have and get a bit more done on them.

Day 14 and 15 Crazy Challenge

Day 14 and I got to start a floss tag. Easy peasy project I say.. lol I couldnt find a pattern that would fit the tag but I went to my friends site http://www.happyyellowhouse.com/htm/atw.html and decided on the ATW as a cross stitch pattern. I have done this pattern in crochet squares that we call saltines and I just love it so deciding to do it in cross stitch was just fantastic. Im nearly done with it just have to finish the ATW and do the borders so I can sew it together, wow I might get a finish. I wonder what that is LOL....

Day 15 wow the last day, can you believe that, I cant. I dont want it to end LOL. Hey lets do this again soon, what do you all say to that. ITs a yes thats fantastic. Any way my final project is a Easter banner, I have this idea to have table that reflects the months we are in so say Valentines day, Easter, Halloween, Xmas to name a few so I thought a Easter Banner would look great wrapped around a basket full of easter eggs. My friend Sherri found a great bunnies cross stitch for me to use and I have started this with the words Happy Easter. I hear ya its only January hello Easter is months away but you know it will be here before you can say Hot Cross Bun... So here is my pic of the banner Im afraid it doesnt show much at the moment.

So now what to do. Its all over rover, I guess its time to revisit all those wips and do some more work. I will continue with the floss tag I think as thats pretty close to finishing.

I hope everyone else that went in the Crazy January Challenge completed it and had as much fun as I did. I look forward to seeing all your projects develop into a finish.

Day 12 and 13 January Challenge

Day 12, I started the floral sampler, this is really the only flower one I have and it was a nice change from cats. I spent the night working on it while watching double episode of Law and Order SVU. Its nice to have something in the background to keep you entertained while you XS dont you think. Here is the photo of my progress.


Day 13 and it was supposed to be the Cats stamped cross stitch kit but boy I dont like the stamped part at all. I couldnt get my stitches to look the same and it just didnt flow quickly if that makes sense. So I decided to not go ahead with it, I knew I would never finish it. Best to either do the kit another way or gift it to someone that likes this sort of thing. So i had to scramble for another project and of course I dont have a lot of new kits and charts laying around but I did buy the Baby Galah kit last week which is so cute so I have started that one. Alas I have only done a few stitches so I might do a bit more on it today and then add a photo in here and thats if I remember how to add a photo after the post has been done.

Day 7 and 8 January Challenge

Day 7 and I started the Australiana Wombat kit, so cute and the kit comes with a frame so I cant wait to show this one off once I have it done. Here is a pic of what I have done so far.

Day 8 was the chance to start the other Mouse pad kit I had called Put on your Big Girl Panties and deal with it.

Day 5 and 6 January Challenge

Day 5 of the January and I got to start a Christmas Cross stitch card. I had all these photo insert cards which I thought would be just fantastic to put cross stitches inside instead. I bought a Christmas book of charts for ornaments and for the cards. So for my project this time round I did a 2011 card. I quite like the bow in the number 2 and cant wait to finish this one up.

Day 6 and I started the October Quaker pattern. Im doing all 12 of these and so far I have done September and November with December already started as well. I love these as they are just one color and using a varigated yarn you can get some really nice effects from the changes in the colors.

Day 4 January Challenge

Day 4 and I got to start my favorite on the list, the Sleigh Ride in the dusk Christmas stocking. It started out really well, I got all the floss out and inspected the chart and then worked out where I needed to start on the fabric so I could start at the bottom. Well no one told me that Dimension kits are hard. The chart is in color and hard to read and you have to do lots of half stitches and most of the time with 3 to 4 threads of different colors. Im deflated I tell you. I had started it and done a bit, not worth a photo yet though. Im wondering whether to redo it and just use two threads and do whole cross stitches but that might change the look of it. What I will do is go to the stationery shop and photocopy the chart 3 times bigger so I can see where Im supposed to be going. Sitting there with a magnifying glass like sherlock holmes just to read the symbols is just plain stupid.

Im now dreading the Majestic Peacock which is on the list as well as its also a Dimensions kit. Although this one was gifted to me, please remind me never to buy a Dimensions kit again.

Day 1 Crazy January 15 Cross Stitch Challenge

Day 1 of the Crazy Challenge is over and I had fun starting the first of 12 sections of the 12 Days of Christmas. Here is a photo of my progress so far. The pattern calls for beads to be worked in with it, not sure if I will go with this or just replace the beads with the same color thread. I do have the seed beads in the colors that are needed so we will see. I will need to iron the fabric once done as those frames sure leave marks in the fabric don't they.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy New Year to you all. I hope 2011 will be a fantastic year.

So now that its January 1st I get to start the Crazy January 15 Cross stitch Challenge. Im so excited, I have been waiting for ages for this to start. Am I mad wanting so many projects at once...nahhhhh course not, I love a challenge and finishing them all by the end of the year will be a piece of cake. Ok so according to my list I can now start the 12 days of christmas project.