Last Finishes of 2011

I finished Joyful Summer on the 29th

And my last beading finish of the year took place yesterday when I added the last bead to MAGIC! Pocket Dragon panel

Designed by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (yes the Author) with the permission of Real Musgrave

All that's left is for me to wish you all a very Happy New Year.

May 2012 be happy, healthy and stash filled.

TW Happy Dance

Started in 2008, worked on all year as my TW Monday project and finished yesterday which means I've met one of my goals for this year.

Basket of Apples from September/October 1988 issue of JCS

Mum's Christmas present

I stitched Papillion by JBW for Mum on a piece of Sparklies out of her 'off cuts' tub at Harrogate and one of her solitaire threads which is very similar to Morning Glory

And Sparklies patchwork fabric was used to make it up into a cushion.

Also at Harrogate I picked up this Humbug Bookmark kit from Sunken Treasures to do for Mum.
I've never made a humbug before and I'm quite pleased with how it's turned out.

Last ornie's of the year

I couldn't share these until today as most of them were given as gift's yesterday.

The first two are both freebies from here and were the Needlecraft Haven Challenge for November/December

This one I gave to my parents at Krampus

This one went to my parents Neighbour

Christmas Tree Cat from this years JCS ornament issue for DBF

And lastly Maya's Panda for Dan (Mel's BF)

Also out of JCS ornament issue but I failed to note which year!

As ever the fabric it's resting on is the backing.

Doro Theos finished

Another weekend project bites the dust.

I finished Doro Theos on Sunday evening, later than I hoped I would but I was away for the weekend and didn't get much stitching time on Saturday.

Doro Theos

My Big Toe Designs

36 count Light Sand Edinburgh linen and Dinky Dyes silk

Started 31 Jan 2010

Finished 11 Dec 2011

Quaker 6 finished

As promised yesterday my finished Quaker a 6 mains.

It's on Lakeside Linens Navy Bean (40 count) and I used DMC variation 4120

Started 18 July 2008

Finished 21 November 2011

Few small finishes

You know how we all end up with loads of little kits in our stash from different places well I decided that I was going to leave some of them at DBF's to work on there and these are the first few

Thank you for the get well wishes, I'm feeling better today but not yet 100% hopefully that will come tomorrow

For Mum

These have been my recent projects while at DBF's.

The coasters Mum asked me to do a couple of years ago and it took me far too long to get round to them

Every year my parents would take both girls to Northampton for the balloon festival and one year she bought this card to stitch herself.

A few weeks ago Mum was having a sort out and came across it and asked me if I'd stitch it for her so off it went to DBF's to be done as soon as the coasters were done.

Some finishing

I had an unexpected day at home last week so I took advantage of it to get a few things finished finished that have been hanging round for a while and I've not really had time to do.

First is Chocolate Covered Cherries, this was an exchange project over on Needlecraft Haven over the summer and although I finished the stitching almost on time and did most of the finishing it took me until last week to put the ribbon on hangs head in shame

It's a freebie from  Casey Buonaugurio and the backing fabric is in the background

Then I mounted my Christmas Carousel Horse in the card it came with, now I just need to remember to get a frame for it

Then I framed my Sunflower finish from earlier in the year.

And lastly I stuffed and closed this pincushion, I finished the stitching on it years ago and it spent the next couple of years in the bottom of Mum's work box waiting for her to stitch it together on her machine because when I finished it I wasn't friends with mine!

And lastly I want to Thank all of you that took the time to comment or email me about Toby.

Weekend Stitching X 2

Last weekend after finishing Kaleidoscope I decided it was time to work on one of those PHD's that turned up when I was looking for something else last year and I know it was easily doable in a weekend even with travelling home from Wales and unpacking etc.

So Christmas Carousel Horse went from looking like this when I found it

To a handsome fella all finished.

I just need to mount him in the card that came with him now and hopefully I'll get that done this week.

With finishing him off that meant I needed to decide on another PHD to work on and so I spread out the likely ones on my bed and got MEl and her DBF to help my choose.

In the end we settled on Runekeeper as it was one of the oldest I have and I could see me finishing it by the end of the year.

Only it didn't work out that way :(  when I came to get to get started on Saturday I couldn't find the tin with all the mettallics in for it and after an hour of searching I gave up and accepted that it just wasn't Runekeepers time yet.

So back I went to the drawers and in the end I went with Quaker a 6 Mains.

I started this when we moved to this house in July 2008 and it's been worked on a few times since then.

The most recent pic I could find of it is here but even that was out of date, I'd finished most the alphabet when I picked it up.

Here it is after 7 hours over the weekend.

Kaleidoscope HD

Told you the next time I posted Kaleidoscope it would be finished and true to my word here it is :)

Started 12 July 2007

Finished 23 September 2011

It's my 20th finish of the year and the 5th for the flippin' crazy challenge

A finish

Back in May at WI craft group we started this little project with the aim of it taking it a couple of months to finish.

Me being me I didn't finish it at the same time as everyone else did and only got round to it last week but at least it's done now :)

It's one of 35 small designs printed in World of Cross Stitch in 2010 and designed by Elizabeth Almond.

Our group leader was in touch with the designer to make sure it was OK for us to use as a group project and she was.

I used a piece of Colour Blooms (the original stuff back when it was owned by Silkweavers) in Rainforest with good old black DMC and the galvanized gold delicas (410)

My Earth finished

I put the last few stitches in yesterday evening making it the 4th finish for the flipp'n crazy challenge and the 14th for the year so far.

Now I need to pick a new project for the weekends

Quick finishes

I realised a few days ago that I had not only done an ornament for this month but that I hadn't done one for May either :(

So I pulled out these two and got them stitched up a in a day :)  I'm not sure where the sleigh will end up but I almost certain that the bear will go to Caleb.

Sunday's progress

Finishing it and making it up into a cushion counts as progress doesn't it?? 

Well it does in my book :)

I did a few speciality stitches on it, nothing really exciting mostly satin stitch, symrna crosses, eyelets and long armed xs.

I also switched one of the colours in the bowl at the top for delica's and used PB 01 instead of the called for DMC metallic 

Woo Hoo Major Happy Dance time

Celtic Banner is finished.

I'm really over the moon to have it done at last, it's only taken about 8 - 9 years!!

Please excuse the wrinkles I couldn't wait to share it and had to drag DBF and Mel outside to hold it for me

And a few closer pics

Now I need to decide what's next

Celtic Griffin HD

As you know this has been my staying at DBF's project all year and Friday evening I finished him :)

He came as a kit from Mill House Designs but I can't find a website unfortunately.

He's also my second Flippin' crazy challenge finish overall and this month!

Please excuse the wrinkles I took the pic when he was fresh off the frame 

Ornament finish

This month I decided to got with a PHD for my ornament.

This is Christmas Kitty Moon from Stitchy Kitty  and I'm almost certain that I started it years ago when I took part in an ornament RR but for some reason I didn't finish it in the time allowed and set it aside.  It's also one of the 3 projects that I found last year when sorting out and the first of my flippin crazy challenge finishes for the year.

Rosie turned one yesterday so I thought I'd share a couple of pics of her that I took this afternoon in a rare moment of quiet

Updates & a finish

First we have the last weeks worth of progress on Caleb's birth sampler, my hour a week UFO

Next we have this weeks progress on Mary Wigham.  I worked my way across the top of the blue motif but had quite a bad plague of frogs with it so not much to show for the hours I put in.

And lastly the finish :)

Sunflower from The Stitching Shed 

It's much brighter IRL but I just don't seem to be able to capture it on a pic :(

Put on your dancing shoes

The very lovely Jo lent me Blackbird Designs Sunflower Charms after she had posted her finish of it and you all know what a sucker I am for Sunflowers.

I used 40 count natural Newcastle linen and the called for WDW and GAST.

Started March 1st

Finished April 1st