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The most recent pic I could find of it is here but even that was out of date, I'd finished most the alphabet when I picked it up.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

Fairy Falls

When we got out of the car and looked at the info board we saw several walks and the shortest one was to  Fairy Falls so we decided it was worth a look.

So from the bottom up we go

Looking down that hole seems to be quite deep

I can't figure out how I managed to move this pic over to one side!

The Falls. If you follow the link above I took this pic from the bench you can see in the first pic

We spotted a bridge over the river when we turned round to head back down so we went up on it and got rewarded with this view.

I hope you've enjoyed your quick visit to one tiny corner of Wales :)

The rest of the holiday we either hung round the caravan, went in to town or wandered round a market but no matter we still had a lovely time (and I finished Kaleidoscope but you already know that)

September Progress and October Goals

For September I said

Finish at least one project besides the map  I finished Kaleidoscope and Christmas Carousel card which I have yet to post

Get an ornament done  Not unless you count the Carousel

For October I'd like to

Get at least one ornament done

UFO RR

A finish would be nice 

I stitched for 95 hours 31 minutes last month, had 4 finishes, 1 new start and a couple of beading projects (one of which I need to post!)

Current PHD total = 36

Trefriw Woollen Mill pt 2

After we'd done the tour of the mill we went to the turbine house.

When you walk in the door your greeted with this loom which unfortunately wasn't being operated the day we went :( 

A closer look at the bedspread being woven

On the wall behind the loom is an array of samples from over the years

Believe it or not this turbine was running

Each one of these straps runs a piece of machinery in the mill

The pump that controls the flow of water

And lastly the Weavers Garden that you see as you arrive and as you leave.

Every one of the plants in can be used in some way in the production of cloth.

Trefriw Woollen Mill

We spent an afternoon in Trefriw and visited the Woollen Mill

DBF had a go at weaving (so did I but he wasn't quick enough with the camera to take a pic)

Then after a brew we did the tour of the mill

One of the shuttles being reloaded but it also shows the colour of the cloth off really well

Another bobbin being filled ready for a shuttle

Conwy

Last week DBF and I went on holiday to Wales (are you surprised. lol) and we spent some time in Conwy.

First we visited Aberconwy House, the oldest and only medieval house in Conwy

If you stand on the corner as I did to take that pic when you turn round you get this view down to the quay

We walked the walls and because I did them last year with Mel I only took a couple of pics.
This arch is at the railway station and close to one of the access points for the walls 

The view down to the quay from the highest point on the walls

Then we walked the suspension bridge, built by Thomas Telford

The links look like they haven't been there that long but they are actually getting for 200 years old

The modern road bridge that replaced it in the 50's

The Toll house, it's much bigger than it looks and a family of 4 lived in it at one point

Looking back towards the castle

I love this gate by the toll house

It's that time of the month again

Time for the ort report :)

Since last time I've added orts from Chocolate Covered Cherries (Which I've just realised I've not posted!), Kaleidoscope, Cheshire Map, Christmas Carousel card, Birds & Bees and various colours of nymo/ko thread and some smoke fireline.

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

Cheshire Map finished

Woo Hoo I put the last stitches in a little while before I had to leave for my holiday on Saturday!!!

Cheshire Map

Heritage Stitchcraft kit

Beaded Box finish

I've been working on this on and off for a few months and I finally finished it a couple of days ago.

It's the Kaleidoscope box from Julia Pretl's book Little Bead Boxes.