It's done

I'm so glad to see the end of this.  Finished about 11.30 last night and handed in this afternoon.

I was far to tired to start anything new last night so I waited for today and started Sunflower from The Stitching Shed. Tomorrow I'm starting the CHS one I said I was going to (planned SAL) but I expected to finish the bell pull today when I said that

The first of many I'm sure

Back in November at beading a fellow member showed us the bells she'd been making for Christmas and being someone that would rather make a 'thing' than a piece of jewellery I asked if she would show me how to do them as they would be perfect for me to hand out to my fellow WI committee members.  Today was the day I had my lesson and here's the result.  It took about an hour to do and is much simpler than it looks.

I was going to crop the pic but decided against it so you get a good idea of the size of it next to my hand.

Dee asked why I hate the bell pull so much, well it's mostly because of the ridiculous short lengths of floss I've got to work but it's also not my taste and on aida which there's nothing wrong with it's just my least favourite fabric to stitch on.

loulee asked if I had a new start lined up ready for when I finish it and yes I have Carriage House Samplings The Birds and Bees almost ready to go and I'll also start at least one other project off that I would of started this month had I not been spending almost all my time on the bell pull

Quick update

The end is in sight of the hated project now there's just one more flower to go and I'm hoping I'll get that done this weekend

UFO RR

Over the last few weeks I've been working on Rebekah's UFO.

 As it arrived

As it leaves

  

UFO progress and a HD

I've done another hour or so on Caleb's birth sampler and the giraffe is growing

I was determined that the hated project wasn't going to be my first finish of the year so I pulled out this Pine Mountain Tie Top kit and stitched it up in a few hours

First HD of the year

Last year I was talking to a fellow beader at one of the monthly meetings about lace and she told me about the class she teaches but as it was almost the end of term she promised to let me know more when the next term started.

That was a couple of weeks ago and after digging out my pillow I was surprised to find that I had a half done project on it, the only problem was I'd also forgotten what to do!!! (In my defence it's been about 3 years since I last touched my lace and I hadn't done much at all so it's not really that surprising I forgot it)

After some head scratching and lots of hand holding I finished it off so here in all it's glory is a simple bookmark that's taken 3 years for me to do.

I used a DMC 12 perle for it but I'm not sure of the colour maybe 3041 or close to it.

Celtic Griffin update

I spent the weekend at DBF's so made some really good progress on this.  I reckon that it's only going to take another 3 maybe 4 weekends at his to get it finished

Fantasy Fifteen

With the Crazy Challenge coming to an end to day I thought I'd tell you what I would of started had I felt daft enough to take part.

So in no particular order

Jeannie Jean - Amybear Needlepoint

Winter Row - Bent Creek

It's Cold Outside - Blue Ribbon Designs

Winter Wingding - Blue Ribbon Designs

Cherry Blossom Spring - Cat's Whiskers

Sunflower bellpull - Drawn Thread

The Most Patterns - Waxing Moon

Fire Dragon (over 2) - TW

Medieval Minature - TW

Sunflower - Stitching Shed 

Cut Thru Haberdasher's - Bothy Threads

It's Berry Time - Blackbird Designs

Winter Wonderland - CCN

Sun Sampler - M Designs

Sunflower Inn - LHN

Some of these will probably get started this year anyway and one of them will be underway this month but you'll have to wait and see which one :)

It's half done

I've been plodding away at the disliked project and it's now half done yay.

I was asked how much of it was done when I was asked to finish it so I took a pic

Updates

First of all thanks for all your comments on yesterday's post about the bellpull, they really made alot sense 

I decided one way to deal with it was to keep to my SAL days and work on it in between so I spent yesterday working on Basket of Apples for TW Monday. I think I may be looking at HD on this towards the end of next month but don't quote me on that :)

And I did my hour on my UFO this morning, working on the giraffe again.

I've been back on the bellpull today and have just about finished the top half of it now so I'll have a pic tomorrow of that and if I scroll down far enough I'll take a pic of the bit that was done when I was given it.