Weekend progress

Just a quick post to share my progress on The Zoo over the weekend.

Finish & update

The finish is a square for SOLAK and the odd thing is the day after I finished it there was an email to say that 2 request had come in for flower quilts and could we please stitch some as they didn't have many 'in stock' talk about timing!

It's from an old issue of a mag most likely Cross Stitcher but I can't swear to that as I ripped the page out but I can tell you it's Lupins.

And I never got round to posting my progress on The Zoo after last weekend so here it is as of Sat morning when I picked it up.

TUSAL time

It's time to share orts once more so here are mine this new moon.

I've added orts from Runekeeper,Winter's Night, Esther Sleepe, Poinsettia Place, Namaste, Namaste list,The Zoo, Cabin Pinkeep ornie, Sew Bunting, Birds & Bees and of course lots of KO, nymo etc from beading in a rainbow of colours.

Don't know what the TUSAL is yet?

Go here to find out more

I went on yet another class

On Saturday I went up to Accrington (anyone remember the milk advert from years ago?) for a class at Halfpenny's for a beaded toggle clasp, it's something I've not done before and they are only an hour away so off I went.

This is the one from the class which I finished early on

And rather than me sit there twiddling my thumbs Kathryn very kindly let me play in her personal bead stash to choose colours for a second one.

They really are easy to make and this second one took me less than an hour to do!

I also have a new start to share, this is going to be a another long term project as it has over 60,000 beads in it!

Go here if you want to see what it is :)

Harriet the Chick

I somehow managed to make this little chick over Easter despite being sick although I did make mistakes and while they aren't obvious in a pic so much IRL they are so I'll make another one at some point.

Harriet was named by a friend but the pattern is Cluckie The Little Beaded Chick Ornament from Threadabead (Harriet is much less of a mouthful!!)

Her cute little feet

And just to show how big she is

March finishes

I finally remembered to try again to get a pic of the Namaste list and this time it's not blurred :)

My ornament for last month was Cabin Pinkeep from JCS ornie issue 2002 by The Prairie Schooler.

Many moons ago someone was clearing out their stash and had several ornaments kitted up that she no longer wanted and I ended up with some and this was one.

I still have to make a cord or find some ribbon for it and I'll round to it before the end of the year, I was starting to get sick the day I stitched it together so it got put aside as I didn't have the energy or brain power to do it then.

I spent Easter being ill and wasn't up to much at all so I dug out this kit that fella gave me for Valentine's this year and worked on it 

It took me less than 5 hours to do but those 5 hours took me 3 days!!

Other than a bit of a lingering cough I'm ok now

March Progress & April Goals

For March I said

Finish Runekeeper   Done along with Namaste which wasn't on the list

Start and finish Poinsettia House  I've started it but not not finished

Make a start on North Pole PO  Not touched it

Stitch an ornament  It's stitched and made up it just need's a cord making

Stitch a SOLAK square  Nop

For April I'd like to

Finish Poinsettia House

Start North Pole PO

Stitch a SOLAK square

Stitch an ornament

Make good progress on The Zoo

I stitched for 83 hours 42 mins in March, had 4 new starts and 6 finishes and just one day of no stitching.

Current PHD total = 32

I wondered what would happen....

If I took this pattern from Vezsuzsi

made 6 of them and stitched them together

what shape I would end up with

and now I know :)

Weekend project

I've had to pick another new weekend project with finishing Namaste so I went with this one.

It's called The Zoo and it's a Lanarte kit and it's not mine.  Every once in a while people that I used to stitch for get in touch and ask me if I'm still stitching for folks and I do but it's rare these days.   Anyway that happened a couple of months ago for this and 2 other projects that I have yet to start but this is the most important one and will become a birth sampler once I return it.

So I thought that I would have it as a weekend project for at least a little while so it'll see far more progress than it would be worked on all the time because I would get bored with it after a week or two and start avoiding stitching after another week or so!

Here's how it arrived with me probably in the region of half done

And here's what I did over the weekend 

and a bit closer

I kinda feel I'm cheating a bit having this as a weekend focus project but it saves me from hating it and I may alternate weekends with one of my own PHD's after a while but I'll see in a few weeks time.

Winter Exchange

I recently took part in a Winter exchange over on the Rotation Stitchers BB and this morning my package arrived but first let me share what I sent out.

This is A Winter's Night from JCS Nov/Dec 2011 and I used NPI silk and Frosted Winter Skies from Sparklies

I received this gorgeous flatfold and with a snowbelle on it couldn't of been more perfect.

I love the backing fabric

And I got goodies but just realised I missed a devine smelling candle out of the pic!