January progress & February goals

For Jan I said

UFO RR  Done

Pick a new TW Monday project  I went with The Castle

Pick a new weekend project  Scary Book won this one

Not start more than 5 GFJ projects  I started 7 projects altogether but have finished 4 of them (3 in Jan and one today)

For Feb I'd like to

UFO RR

Stitch an Ornament

Get my exchange project done and mailed early

The fob from Needle and Thread would be nice

Birthday card for DBF's DD

I stitched every day in Jan with a total of 90 hours 12 minutes.  I had 7 new starts and 4 finishes 3 of which were new starts.

Current PHD total - 34

Needle & Thread finish

Last week I gave in to the quiet pleading of Needle & Thread from Little House Needlework and stitched it over a few days.

I have no idea what the fabric is and I used the called for Crescent Colours.

There's nothing listed for the eyes and beak of the owl so I used Hickory Sticks for the eyes and Tufted Yellow for the beak, 2 strands of each and I wrapped twice in case your interested :)

When I bought my chart I was lucky enough to get the bed as well (very surprising for my little corner of the world) so this morning I sat down and put it together.

Now I just need to do the scissor fob which I'll hopefully manage in Feb.

Scary Book

Here's this weeks progress report

Scary book

I just realised that I've not shared my progress on Scary Book for a couple of weeks so before Saturday arrives and I pick it up again here it is.

UFO RR

This time round I worked on Cat's Christmas Angel.

As she arrived

As she left me 

She's really pretty but I struggled with the chart (colour symbols) so didn't do as much as I would of liked

First and Last

First off here's my TUSAL jar on 31 Dec before it got emptied and washed.

And here it is this morning.

Since Jan 1st I've added orts from 4 Seasons Sampler, Chrissie The Cross Stitcher, Red Dragon, Carousel Horse Card, Scary Book, Normal is a setting, The Castle and the current UFO RR

All last year I had a little bag at DBF's for my ORT's there and would bring them home every few visits to empty it.

This year I've left a jar there them but unfortunately I've not been down for a few days so I don't have a pic of that one yet but I'll post it when I have.

Legs!

I have a new pair of legs :)  (I wish, esp if they work properly and look good lol)

Thought I'd share the project I started while I take a break from the Dragon box.

If I worked the way the instructions say you'd be looking at a bodyless head but given that I don't like doing face's until the end I started with the last bit and will work backwards so I can put it all together when I'm done.

The pieces

Assembled, the first one took me well over and hour to put together between the learning curve and not getting the beads lined up right on the back, the second one went much quicker

They are the same length it's just that some beads are hiding on the right hand one

And while I was taking pics of them I was struck with the urge to take one of my beading work space.

The single piece on the left is the start of the arms

BTW it's the Teddy Bear from the current issue of Jill Oxton (#85)

It's a tree

You might remember way back on December 14th when I posted about my finished cracker there was another project lurking in the background that just needed a star on the top.

Well a few days ago I added one, I had been looking for a star bead to go on it but when looking through a pile of patterns I came across the one for a star that was one of the first things I learnt to make!

So I sat down, made 2, stitched them together round the sides and put them on the tree.

Today

I was planning on posting about the Christmas tree today but that was this morning before something more interesting came along in the form of firemen :)

Over the road from me is a large area of what can only be called waste ground and today the land agents decided to do something about the fly tipping that's been going on but instead of doing the sensible thing and removing it the guys they hired to do the job decided to set fire to it.

So one of my neighbours called the fire bridgade out (they bet me to it)

This is just after they put it out and I wish I'd grabbed my camera earlier afterwards to show how high the flames were and how bad the smoke was

The burn area ran from where you can see it in the pic to past the end of the pic, it was big!

Mel came in my bedroom to talk to me while I watched the clear up and she lay down on my bed to play a game.

 Rosie decided that Mel looked like a comfortable place to lie down and go to sleep

She looked so content

Then this evening she did it again only to DBF this time when he lent over the sofa to talk to Mel and Dan

I'll come back tomorrow with the tree

Dragon Box update

A quick update on the Dragon box today.

It's been put away for a while now, not because I don't want to work on it but because I get sore fingers pulling the fireline and they need a rest for a while esp this time as I managed to cut my finger right with it!

It'll be back in a week or two but until then I've started a bear