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 :(

Whoops

I though I better show you last weekend's progress on Celtic Banner before I pick it up again in the morning!!

TUSAL time

It's that time of the month again so here's my ort jar.

This month we have orts from Celtic Banner, Celtic Griffin, Basket of Apples, UFO RR, Caleb's Birth Sampler, Mary Wigham, Joyful Summer, Sunflower Charms and various colours of KO from beading

If you remember last month I told you that I couldn't tell you what the pile of green was from as it was for my Mum for Mother's Day and she reads my blog.

Well if you didn't know already it's Mother's Day here in the UK today so I can share now

She loved it :)

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

March progress & April Goals

For March I said 

UFO RR  Done

Stitch an ornament  No

Finish Sunflower Charms  I got really close and have half of one row of lettering to do

For April I'd like to

UFO RR

Stitch at least one ornament

Finish Sunflower Charms

Keep on working on Celtic Banner and hopefully finish it

Keep on working on my UFO

I stitched for 90 hours 21 minutes in March and had 1 new start and no finishes (at least no stitching ones, I did have some beading ones)

Current PHD total = 41!

1 day 2 finishes

As you know Wednesday is lace class/group and for the last few weeks I've been working on this little thingie, today I finished it.  The thread I used is a little thick and it has it's flaws but I'm really pleased with the result.

Last October I took a class for a Ribbon necklace and I've been working on it on and off since then.  I kinda stalled on it when I couldn't get some of the crystals for the fringe so in the end decided that I was fed up enough of it hanging around almost done that I went with something else.

This doesn't give you much of an idea of the colours in it but if you scroll down a couple of posts and take a look at the Triangle bracelet you'll get the idea.

Jo tune in sometime over the next couple of days for your answer :)

Last weeks stitching

Monday I worked on Basket of Apples

Tuesday I did my hour on Caleb's Birth Sampler, it's hard to see my progress as it's all white

Then I worked on Sunflower Charms until Thursday

I spent Friday with Mary Wigham

And the weekend with Celtic Banner. 

Triangle class HD

I finished the Triangle bracelet this afternoon, it took me 2 hours to put the clasp on this afternoon as my arm is bad again :(  Luckily I'd finished the rest of it last week but I had to wait for the clasp to come in stock at the bead shop

Weekend Stitching

With being at the Get Together on Saturday I didn't work on Celtic Banner. 

Well I took it with me and had it all set up to work on when I spotted a mistake and I wasn't in the mood to frog it right then so I put it away again.

So I worked on Joyful Summer instead.

I spent Saturday night and a good chunk of Sunday at DBF's so Celtic Griffin got some attention.

I spent Sunday evening on Celtic Banner and after frogging the mistake I almost got the 4 boxes finished.

For a few weeks now I've had the nagging doubt that the fabric wasn't long enough so this morning I layed it out on the floor and got the tape measure out.

I was almost right, I'm going to 1/2" left at the end so I'm thinking I'll miss out the backstitch border a little further down as that will give me another 1/2" of space at the bottom for finishing.

Get together

Needlecraft Haven had it's first Get Together yesterday and I went along, it was great to put faces to names at last

There was alot of finishes and PHD'S to look and drool over