Big Christmas project underway

This year I'm working on Santa and his sleigh from Oak Tree Crafts you can see a pic of him completed if you follow the link.

So far I've done one side of his sleigh

Weekend progress

I worked on adding some of the greenery over the weekend 

The plan for this weekend coming is to back stitch the top right petal and if I can finish the greenery around it I'll back stitch the left one as well

Victorian Fan progress

I'm pleased with how this is progressing all the diamond eyelets are now finished in the fan which I'm happy about, it's not that I hate stitching them it's just they are so time consuming but they are worth it.

I'm not sure what part will be working on this Friday but I will be finishing the spines of the fan first after that I'll see which bit talks to me

Funky Street progress

This week Funky Street came out to play and I'm almost at the halfway point now :)

It's much brighter IRL than the pic shows and I'm loving every stitch of it

I'm hoping to have it finished by the end of the year so you'll be seeing it again soon

Late TUSAL

Yes folks it's that time again where perfectly sane woman across the globe post pictures of their rubbish from this create hobby of ours  AKA the Totally Useless Stitch A Long (link takes you to the sign up/ info page)

First is my stitching orts jar since last time I've added one from Daffodils, Needleworker, Victorian Fan, My Ark, Owl, CdC, Alchemical Romance, Funky Street, a bit of sewing thread from hexies and Lucy added a few from her projects while she was visiting. 

And my beading orts, all the white on the top is from Tea for Two the bit of red that's just about showing is from my new start Santa and his Sleigh

Weekend progress

Today's quick post is my progress from last weekend on the daffs as with the fan yesterday it wasn't touched the weekend of the wedding.

Apologies for the slightly fuzzy pic every one I took was the same or worse and this was the best of the lot

Victorian fan progress

Well NaBloPoMo didn't get off to good start for me :(  I wrote my post well before midnight and pressed publish and it didn't :(   I went back to the page well after midnight just before I went to bed and there it was still waiting so today you get two posts at opposite ends of the day.

Last weeks progress on Victorian fan that I'm SALing on with Pat.

The week before was the wedding and I never touched it or a needle of any sort :(

I think once I get on the border it'll go much quicker

October progress & November goals

For October I said
Get the RR stitched   Done
Get the birth sampler half done    No :(
A finish would be nice   I finished Needleworker
Get a few symbols done on Alchemical Romance   Done 
Get caught  up on hexie flowers  I'm getting there
Sell some stash   Several items have found new homes

For November I'd like to
Get the next RR stitched when it arrives
Finish something
Get the silk ordered for Alchemical
Work on hexie flowers
Make a dent in the beaded Christmas gifts/ornaments
Sell some stash
Post every day for NaBloPoMo


I stitched for 74 hours 8 minutes in October had 2 new starts and 2 finishes one of which was a new start.  I also had 3 days of no stitching :( but it the weekend I went to Margate for the wedding :)

Current PHD total = 27

Beading weekend part 4 AKA I'm finished

First is the label and flowers from the last post that I missed out :(

The table legs, they are actually long needlecases and so I can use them if I want to

And looking down on them.  Now you know why there was a blank circle in the middle of the lid, I thought it would be easier to glue the pincushion in place on bare wood

One of the sides, they all look roughly the same

The top of the box/ with the tablecloth and knob/vase in place

And here it is all laid out ready for tea, the front right leg is straight it just doesn't look it!

A different view of the table

I'm planning to add a teapot and possibly a milk jug and sugar bowl as well but wanted a few days off from tea related items first!

Beading weekend part 3

My box is painted and polished

and on the inside as well

The tablecloth is complete after a wait of a few days while Lorraine worked out extra rows for me because I have a bigger box

And I thought I'd share a before and after of the napkins

I was going to say that the only thing you'd not seen was the label but as I went to type it I realized I'd not taken a pic of the star flowers :( so they will both have to wait for another day.

All I have left to do is the tea cup and assembly aka glue things in place that need it which I will try to do this week but Lucy and Teejay are visiting so it may have to wait until they have gone home