dancing

I did absolutely no stitching between this past Friday and Monday, with the exception of a whole 4 stitches on Saturday... not something you can call progress...

So I did no stitching on my Conrwall Cottage SAL with Barbi and Linda... Hopefully this Sunday I will be able to get some much needed stitching time on it.

I did however, have a happy dance last night!  I finished off my Winter Patchwork, by Jardin Prive.  It is stitched on 32ct. jobelan, using the called for DMC threads.  It was a fun stitch!  I'm looking forward to the other two I have in the series - Spring and Summer.

Just a short little post... so till next time... happy stitching!

hello september... where did you come from???

 So where did the summer go?? I can't believe it is September already!  It was June not that long ago, and I was looking forward to the summer months... but I blinked and they are gone!   I hope everyone had a great summer even though I know it went by way too quickly...

As promised, I have some new projects lined up... here are two of them, that I have started so far... All of my new projects are patterns that I've had in my stash for a while and have been calling out to me for quite some time now... It was the perfect time to get them out and work on them...

1. Winter blackwork by Jill Oxton (issue 66)

That is what it is supposed to look like and here is my progress so far...

I'm stitching her on 32ct Queen Anne's Lace jobelan using DMC 844.  If I do say so myself, the picture doesn't do her justice... but that is my fault and my lack of photography skills and laziness to actually take it with the camera and not just my phone...

Shameless plug here... if anyone is interested I do have an extra of the magazine that this pattern is in for sale... don't ask how I managed that one, but I do have two magazines...

My next project is a little brighter...

2. Poppy by Mirabila/Nora Corbett

Here is my floss toss

And my progress on her from my first night of stitching...

I'm using 28ct Sudden Storm jazlyn by Silkweaver for her...

Anyways, I have two more starts lined up, but you will have to wait to find out what they are until I actually put some stitches into them...

Till next time... happy stitching!!

jack frost came for a visit

Wednesday night we had a blanket of freezing fog here. It was so thick, that I couldn't see the neighbour's house across the street! But Thursday we woke up to a little less fog but an oh so pretty sight... My sweetheart of a husband snapped some pictures for me while I was at work.

It looked like Jack Frost himself took his wand and spread beautiful snow and ice crystals everywhere.

winter in the city