Look what I woke up to

Even though the pic doesn't show it it's still falling :)

Mel is feeling much better now and more like her normal self although she's still coughing alot and she doesn't yet have much colour in her cheeks. But I've got up this morning with a bit of a cough and cold so I'm hoping it doesn't get any worse

Jo, Princess and Dragon is hanging in the alcove where my puter is along with Quiltmaker (which I'll share another day), the balck wire you can see behind it is the wire that runs from the router up into Mel's room for her puter which happens to sit directly above mine

An old finish

I took this a few days ago planning to post it but life got in the way and Mel got sick so it's taken me a few days.

The Princess and the Dragon

Teresa Wentzler

I started this back in 2002 I think when it was released in a UK magazine at the time rotating was new to me and it didn't get much attention really but that all changed in June/July 2003. To cut a long and boring story short I stitched it in the month or so of waiting for tests to be done to find out why I couldn't walk and had extreme pain in my legs all the time, turned out it was caused by diabeties although I had none of the normal symptoms that signal it's onset

January Progress & February Goals

For January I said

Finish the Angel Box I've got as far as the hem, it's giving me problems and I've unpicked it a couple of times
UFO RR Done
SOLAK Square Started but no where near finished
Start all the new WIPs I feel like and not to feel guilty I didn't start as many as I thought I would, I must be ill!
A finish would be nice I finished the Peacock freebie

For February I'd like to

Finish the Angel Box
UFO RR
Finish the SOLAK Square
Finish Quaker Row
Finish the stitching on both exchanges I'm signed up for

In total I stitched for 111hrs 19mins, had 5 new starts and 1 finish. Of those 5 starts 3 will be finished this month so it's not quite so bad as it looks right now for my WIP killing spree.

Current WIP total = 48

Quaker Row update

Yesterday's progress consisted of the alphabet, finishing the top right motif and the bird.
Apologies for the slightly wonky pic, Millie has taken to lying on top of the scanner and it's not easy to lift the lid with a cat on it!

I had hoped to get more of it done yesterday but I spent the bulk of the being a taxi and sat around waiting at appointments for Mum (one advantage is that I made good progress on a pair of socks) so I didn't really get to sit down with it until mid evening. If I had got more time on it I think I may of been HDing next week but there's 3 motifs and the rest of the alphabet to do it's not looking good.

Living with Charm update

I've spent the last few days working on it and I'm quite pleased with my progress. I've worked out that if I do two words a month I'll be done in April and I'll be able to cross another WIP off the list

I've done Listen, Learn & the line under Give this time round. I'm off to start an exchange piece now so I won't be sharing anything until Saturday when it's Quaker Row update time

It's Saturday so that means.....

It's Quaker Row update time :) I think I made pretty good progress over all yesterday and I'm thinking that maybe another 2 Friday's and I'll be done

Next week I'm going to make a start on the alphabet, I've decided that I am going to go with a different colour but I'm not sure what yet. I'm leaning towards a red (maybe 814) but Mel thinks I should go with a lighter shade of blue, I'll ask Mum what she thinks on Monday when I go down, never thought to take colour options with me yesterday

Celtic Banner won

My desire to get it finished this year won in the end but Angel of the Morning will get worked on this year as well

I've mostly done the border this time which is why there's a mess of thread at the side

Meet new start #3

Cross Eyed Kat's Triangularity

I'm using a Sparklies Solitaire but what doesn't show in the scan is the sparkle it has although the fabric colour is pretty accurate

Now I'm trying to decide which of my old WIPs I should work on next. I'm planning on finishing my Celtic Banner this year anyway and was going to work on it next but Angel of the Morning has been calling me for the last couple of days so now I can't decide!

Friday SAL

Yesterday's effort is the motif on the left, I've got a couple of little bits left to do on it next week but otherwise it's finished. I'm due to take Mum to a craft place on the outskirts of Crewe next week and it's not that far from Hobbycraft at Bridgemere so I'm going to drag her there (not that she'll complain) to help me decide on a colour for the alphabet.

Edited to add that I have no idea why the pic is disappearing off the right side of the post, it fits on the post screen and I even resized it!

UFO anyone

The last few days I've been working on Andie's The Teacher UFO

As she arrived

As she left

I posted it on this afternoon and started on Triangularity this evening :) tomorrow is Quaker Row SAL day so I'll have to put my triangles down for that but I'll be back with them on Saturday and should have a pic Sunday/ Monday