Penguins finish

Over the last couple of months this has been my travel project and yesterday I put the last stitches in.

It’s from Brittercup Designs and it’s a Christmas gift for Teejay who adores penguins 

Slightly Dotty Snowmen

 A friend and I are having a SAL on Bothy Threads Slightly Dotty Snowmen each weekend.

Blogger has decided that no matter which way I upload the pics they have to be backwards!!

So this is after this last weekend

Weekend 2  (Sept 26/27) saw mine look like this 

And after weekend one Sept 19/20

Not being a fan of Aida I switched to silver lurex Linda, the last piece in my stash 😢

More Crimson Poppies

 It’s had a little more love recently but had to be put away to work on a couple of models

Let it snow ornament

 I’m going to try and play catch up over the next few days but no guarantee it’ll happen!

First up is a recent finish, the instructions where given by a lady named Dawn. M Turner in a Facebook group I’m in last year for the monthly SAL they do there, I think it was in November and I got round to it last month.

Crimson Poppies progress

Since finishing Persian Buttercup I’ve been working on my neglected Crimson Poppies.

I started these in 2008 and I have a feeling I’ve not worked on them since then!!

I’ve gone from this

To this

The last few days have been hot here so I’ve not been stitching much but I just realised that another reason is that I’ve had enough of these for now so they are going away and I’m going to treat myself to a new start 😁

Fingers crossed it’s not another 12 years before I work on them again

Persian Buttercup

Started 8 July and finished at lunch time today

Persian Buttercup from John Clayton, part of the shades of nature collection.

I’ve got several finishes to post from the last few weeks but I keep forgetting to get them done, fing Eros crossed I remember at some point

Have to say I’m not a fan of the new interface!

Wayward Garden progress

I spent May working on Wayward Garden and went from this

To this

Star box finish

This was my beading birthday start this year and I finished it this morning.

Star box from Crystal Star Gems on Etsy.

With a tea light in

Hopefully this will work and you can see the flicker of the tea light

Marigold finish

Finished this afternoon my Birthday start from 2018.

Meet Marigold designed by Nora Corbett.  I stitched her on Champagne from Sparklies (website is still down) with the called for thread but I used best match on the beads using ones from my stash.

And here’s how she looked when I picked her up

Modern Millie Art Deco box

I’ve been working on this in between a very large test bead (I’ll share when I can) to give me a break from it and it’s dark colours.

Really enjoyed this one although at times it’s been a pain in the proverbial to do!

Modern Millie Art Deco box

Teresa Morse

Iceni Bead Design

Much better pic of the colours and a good view of the side panel

This is the decoration on the top and while I was working on it it crossed my mind that 3 corners of it would make a gorgeous pendant and then I could use a single corner to make earrings to match.  If I really wanted to tax my brain I could figure out how to make a bracelet as well!

Whether or not it actually ever happen remains to be seen