A new Round Robin

When I went on the stitching week to Scarbrough in May the topic of Round Robins came up and we decided we'd do one.

I went with a theme of Dragons for mine (hands up who's not surprised) and once I finished Tea I set about setting mine up and getting my square done.

I've used a Sparklies Solitaire, good old DMC and some krenick 

After a root round my stash I came up with Dragon Dreams Virtue freebies from 2002, as long as I took the title off it was the perfect size for the square :)

So this one is Friendship and I subbed the DMC for the scales and claws with #4 braid and the smoke with Ombre because I could :)

Legends of the Dragons happy dance

I started this on January 1st 2010 as part of a SAL on the TWBB and after a bit of progress it got ignored until August 3 this year when I made it my next weekend project.

Here's a reminder of how it started out.

Sunday evening I finished Wisdom and so finished Legends and reached one of my goals for the year.

I've really enjoyed working on this again and while I'm happy it finished I'm a little sad the journey has come to an end.

Tune in at the weekend to find out what project is next in line to be finished

Weekend progress

Made really good progress on Legends, the stitching is finished and I'm about 3/4 done with the back stitch as well so next weeks update will be a finish :)

And I've added the lonely shepherd on Mary's Sampler and given him a red head band to cheer him a little 

Weekend Progress

Another weekend is done and more progress was made on Legends.

I didn't quite manage to finish the stitching on the dragon ready to start the Backstitch but a few hours this next weekend will see to that, if I hadn't spent the first few hours doing some of the backstitch on the border I would of done it

And part 5 of Mary's Sampler has been added

IHSW Weekend progress

I remembered to sign up for IHSW again this month!

I won't post a before pic because as normal it's the same as my after pic from last weekend and if your a regular reader chances are you remember what it looks like and if your new it's in the post below.

It's looks even more like a Dragon now :)

And Mary's Sampler although part 4 was stitched this afternoon

Updates

I'm late with these this week but I have a good reason......

I'm really pleased with how much I got done on Legends over the weekend, fingers crossed I do as well this weekend.

I added my sheep to Mary's Sampler

Here's my good reason :)

Teejay and his Mum have been here to help Mel celebrate her birthday yesterday at Chester Zoo

Weekend progress

First is my progress on Legends, I wasn't in the mood to spend all weekend on the backstitch so I started on the best bit instead, the Dragon.

Monday I started on Mary's Sampler, the 9 part free Christmas Sampler available on Plum Street Samplers blog

I'm using a lovely overdyed green fabric that I bought in an whoops pack from Country Stitch way back in 2004 and good old DMC.

I wasn't keen on Mary and Joseph having such dark and drab outfits so I switched to 902 and I'm much happier with it

And a couple of days ago I went to water my toms and one is turning red :)

Late progress

Better late than never it's my progress on Legends from last weekend.

All the border is now stitched and I'm about half way through back stitching it

   

Yesterday I joined the in the SAL in the parlour over on Needlecraft Haven and finished the Stocking Store apart from the Back Stitch

IHSW report

I remembered to sign up for IHSW this month, yay me.

Not as much progress as in previous weekend but I found it hard to settle to anything most of the weekend for some reason, no clue what but I did make progress as you can see.

I should finish the border this coming weekend then I'm on to the very best bit, the TW

Weekend progress

There won't always be a beading project on a weekend but as I reached the end of my desire to work on the robe for the time being and it was mid morning today I thought I'd add it.

And my progress on Legends.

I got Majesty's name done and finished his border then made a start on finishing the border top and bottom on Magic.  The bottom is done as far as it could be without moving the frame to allow me a full length of thread and the top just needs a little more backstitch doing to finish that off.

Health wise I'm slowly starting to see some improvements now, I'm not getting as out of breath when I do stuff and it's not so hard to breathe all the time but the steroids are having a bad effect on my sleep :(

Weekend progress

This being sick lark is doing wonders for my stitching and beading but my house is mess and hasn't been cleaned in almost 3 weeks! Kinda hard to do housework when even simple tasks wear you out and walking upstairs is done as little as poss because resting on your bed when you do is an absolute must

Anyway on to my progress from the weekend :)

I finished Majesty late (ish) Sunday evening so there is just the name block to go which I should get done this weekend esp as it's looking like I won't be going to the wedding I've been invited to :( 

And an overall view just in case you forgot what it looks like so far or are new to my blog (in which case welcome)

I want to say a huge thank you to those of you that have offered to send me some of the missing krenick to finish the block off, it's very much appreciated but not needed.  Turns out I misread a symbol and thought I needed it to finish Majesty but I didn't so Thank You to you all, stitchers are wonderful people :)

PS it's still missing, Rosie will dig it out in a few weeks time just like she has the sweet wrapper she pinched a while ago!

Updates

Last week's progress on Firefly Fairies.

I'm fed up with green already and wish I could wave a magic wand it be finished and waiting for me to stitch the last project and so I can send them all back

And my weekend progress on Legends.

Rosie has a thing for reels of Krenick and at some point I've left the box with the floss in open and she's pinched one of the reels so until it turns up I won't be able to finish this block but it's going to be a couple of weeks at least before I get to that point thank goodness I really don't fancy spend £4 on a new reel for a few stitches!

Yesterday Stephie asked what a PHD is and rather than reply privately as no doubt others are wondering I thought I'd answer here.

A PHD is either a Project Half Done or a Potential Happy Dance which ever suits you personally mine are all potential happy dances

Updates

Last week was my Santa's Village week and between being busy and being sick I didn't quite get it finished but I'm happy with my progress and it'll get finished next week.

And of course my weekend progress on Legends of the Dragons.

Between still being sick and it being a Bank Holiday weekend so having an extra I made quite a lot of progress on it.

I've not been fully well for 2 1/2 weeks now, Friday I went to the Doc's who confirmed that I do indeed have a chest infection and she gave me antibiotics.  They have helped but I'm still not right and in fact I think I'm starting to get a little worse again so I'll be back there this Friday asking for a stronger dose.

Legends update

I completely forgot it was IHSW last weekend and didn't sign up for it but I was in Wales so couldn't of anyway!

Being up the side of a Welsh Mountain in a caravan not feeling to wonderful did have a good effect tho and I made really good progress on Legends.

On Sunday when I went to have a look at my Toms I discovered that not only have they grown but they have friends :)

Stitching updates

Last week was my week for Santa's village and I made a start on Mrs Claus' Cookie shop

My weekend progress on Legends I did have more border done but a frog payed a visit :(

This year for the first time ever I decided to have a go at growing tomato's but I started late.

4 weeks ago tomorrow I planted 2 very scrawny looking plants and yesterday I found my first toms appearing :)

Weekend progress

Thank you all for your comments yesterday on the snow people and Rosie, today she's been dashing round like she's spider powered and the complete opposite of yesterday

I didn't quite get as much done as I'd hoped I would but I'm still happy with my progress and next weekend will see this block finished and I can move on to Majesty

  

The black circle(ish) on the bottom left of the pic isn't a stain it's a strand of my hair that I never noticed until I opened the pic on the puter!

After and before

The after is my progress on Firefly Fairies that was started on Tuesday and is the second of the 3 projects for the same lady and the one I'm really not looking forward to stitching

And the before is my starting point for my new weekend project Legends of the Dragons

Runekeeper

I finished the dragon block around 12.20 am on Monday morning which means one thing....

Runekeeper is finished :)

Started way back in 2005 and now it's finally finished I now have no PHD's from 2005 left to do (let's not mention the one's from 2004 and before tho, OK)

It's in need of a bath so please excuse the wrinkles but that's no excuse not to put your dancing shoes on and join me in a happy dance now is it :)

Runekeeper

The Unicorn block is finished and I only have the Dragon block to do which fingers crossed I'll do this weekend.   IF I'm close to being finished Sunday night I'll work on it on Monday so I can cross it off the list and have a happy dance.

If you haven't already entered and want to there's still time to enter my 1000th post giveaway

Runekeeper

Time for the weekend progress pic.

It looks a little odd but trust me it's a Unicorn :)

And what will probably be the last overall pic before I finish 

And this is the last one before you find out what I've been loosely been counting down to