Secret stitch

Earlier this year I bought a gently used chart off a Facebook selling site of a Harley after checking with my fella that he liked it and told him I’d stitch it for him next year.

Early in October I had the bright idea of stitching it for him in secret for Christmas year and started it and then promptly didn’t do any more on it for a few weeks!   The last 10 days or so I’ve made sure I’ve worked on it for a few hours every day while he’s at work and I’ve made steady progress on it.

This is how far I got up to Friday evening and I’m hoping to get the back end finished off before he’s off at the end of this week.

Last weeks progress

Last week was Daffs week but I didn't get much done on it :(  being out 3 evenings bowling really cuts into your stitching time!

And weekend progress on Art Deco Sunrise

This week's stitching

This week was focus week and I've made pretty good progress with the Daffs.

I got most of the bottom left hand petal done and a bit of back stitch on the stems, I'm hoping next time round I'll get the petal finished

Yesterday was my Birthday so I had my traditional Birthday start.

This year it's Sun Sampler from M Designs, I was RAKed with the chart years ago so it's about time I stitched it!

And I started a new beading project as well.

This is Leo's Birdhouse and for now much progress won't be made on it as I'm busy with Cheshire Show entries which is why no beading has appeared for a while :( but I do have some to share that I finished months ago and forgot to post but they can wait a day or two yet

Last weeks progress

Last week was Daffs week but I really didn't get much done on it but all progress counts.

I found that some nights I struggled with it and I don't know if that was because I was distracted with Mum being in hospital or if it's the over one so on those nights I picked up Hill House.

I guess next week I'll find out which it is

I forgot to post my after pic from the weekend last week so here it is as a before pic for this last weekend :)

And the after pic 

Mum has developed Cellulitis in her arms from the canula but she's doing OK and it's getting better, fingers crossed she'll be home tomorrow

New focus project

With finishing The Birds and Bees I had to find a new weekly focus project and given the time of year it would of been rude to go with anything else :)

This is Daffodils from The Silver Lining.

I'm stitching this over one (what was I thinking!!) and it;s now been a PHD for 10 years so it's high time I finished it.

How it started the week off

And how it ended the week

Birds and Bees finish

Hot off the frame on Saturday morning one completed Birds & Bees.

The last stitches went in a few minutes before midnight Friday night but I was to tired to take a pic then and far to busy on Saturday to iron it before taking a pic.

The Birds & The Bees

Carriage House Samplings

It's been such a fun stitch and I'm not quite sure why I put it down but it's done now and I'm really pleased with it wrinkles and all :)

Stitch from Stash March update

I thought I'd save my progress on Birds & Bees for this post.

I had hoped to get it finished last week but it turned out to be a very busy week and a on a couple of days I only got a few minutes in on it but it's not the end of the world that I didn't and there's always this next week

On to the reason for the post my Stitch from Stash update.

March turned out to be a boring month really, I didn't spend a penny or start anything new from stash but I did finish a couple.

February 27 - March 27

New starts from Stash =0

PHD's worked on = Happy Holidays, Winter Wingding (both finished), Birds & Bees, Thread Bear and Funky Merry Christmas

£ spent = Zero

Budget left = £54.60.  £34.60 carried forward + £20 for March

Progress

I made a lot of progress on Birds and Bees last week thanks to the chest infection and I would of made more had we not had a power cut Friday evening from 7 pmish to gone 3 am.

There's a small chance it'll be finished when it's worked on again next week but it's not set in stone and it will be done the time after that for sure.

And Winter Wingding which will be finished this weekend 

The Birds and the Bees

I've gone back to alternate weeks on projects now that Lewis is done and I've started the projects I wanted to in January.

One week I'll work on a focus project the next whatever calls loudest esp. from the new starts.

I started this last week and have gone with The Birds and the Bees as my focus project.

My starting point

The area I worked on

Overall pic

I was hoping to finish the bees off in that area but with being at my Daughters for a couple of days to look after Teejay while she had an op meant it wasn't to be but Teejay and I had a fun day while the op took place.

This evening I watched the pairs figure skating and Rosie was quite taken with the Italian pair, they were the only ones she watched