Every Stitch Counts Right?

Evening all!

I hope you have all had a nice weekend and ready for the week ahead (I am SO looking forward to my week off work in a couple of weeks time).

This week was a funny old week for me, I have just been out of sorts completely, went off the rails on slimming world, was late home from work a couple of nights, early in bed some other nights and the weekends weather has just been horrible here - the street lights were on at 2 in the afternoon here today!

All this meant this week hasn't seen the greatest amount of progress, but I did still manage to work on Lily during the week and Row of Cats today.

Here is Lily as of now, I am still way ahead on the HAED group challenge for 100 stitches a week this month so that's fine.

Here is how Row of Cats is looking tonight - you can't really see the white stitches on this picture but they are there along with the dark grey/brown ones!

So I will continue to work on Row of Cats until this kitty is done - fingers crossed that should only be another evening or so.

Although I will hold my hands up now and openly say I am not promising any great stitchy progress this coming week. Fallout 4 is released this week so there is every chance I will be spending a lot of my evenings playing that instead of stitching but that's ok!

This week I have also started to get some new year projects organised with ordering some threads and fabric - when those arrive I will share pictures!

Have a great week everyone

Emma xo

Lily WIP Update

Good evening all!

I hope you all had a good week?

So after Row Of Cats was put away for the week I pondered over what to make my WIP inbetween. In the end Lily won - I figured as it is a fairly simple chart then I should see some nice progress on it.

So here is how it looked the last time you saw it - which was AGES ago!

After a couple of nights working on it here is where I am tonight. I would have got a bit more done but stayed late at work last night due to decorating for Halloween (my office is mad for it!)

Also, this tied in nicely with the challenge Michelle has set us in the Official HAED group on Facebook so I will be sticking with this between Row Of Cats for the next few weeks at least!

So tomorrow Row of Cats will return for me to stitch the next kitty up - he is smaller than the last so I'm thinking he won't take me too long. We don't really do Halloween so tomorrow will be just another day - perhaps watch a movie at night but that will be it.

I'll be back once he is complete to share :)

Until next time!

Emma xo

HAED stitching and Running News

Good evening my lovely people!

I hope you are all well, I am now just about recovered from my 10k on Sunday, apart from my ankles which are still aching a little, but I did it! I did it! I'm so proud of myself :) My friends are already asking when we are going to do our next one...let me recover first please!

So on to stitching, this past week I decided to work on something which I haven't worked on since last December! How terrible is that?! But I am happy to say I made good progress.

Lily - Heaven and Earth Designs - As of last December!

I managed to finish the first page I was working on and made a small start on the second.

Lily as of 19/11/2013

This picture also shows the fabric colour much better, still not spot on, but you get the idea!

But now this goes away - the third and final part of the Lizzie*Kate sal arrived YAAAAAAY!!!!! I really want to get this done before December so now I must crack on!

I have a busy weekend ahead, me and two friends are going to the Knitting and Stitching Show in Harrogate, then taking a trip to Bettys and then on Sunday I am going to see Andrea Bocelli with a friend! A fun weekend ahead :D

I have yet to hear from Shebafudge about the travelling pattern, so if I do not hear by this weekend I will pick another name out so it can continue its journey.

Until next time!

Emma xo

#53 I Spy With My Little Eye...

Good evening everyone!

I hope you are all well and in the full swing of everything festive! Welcome to my two new followers Emily and Spices of Your Life, thank you for taking the time to visit my blog :)

Now, it was IHSW this weekend. Hermitting - check! Stitch...not so much... But it has been a productive weekend none the less. First up, remember all those threads I received in the mail? Well I bobbinated my bum off and they are all now neat and tidy, only problem is my box is full so I will be asking Santa to send me another for Christmas ;)

As well as this a little work was done on Lily, here is it the last time you saw it;

and here she is now! Her eye is almost complete, just a few more lashes to add and I will be then on to her hair and eyebrow.

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Other than this I have mainly spent the weekend wrapping presents and writing cards, I think I am almost there now to just be able to put my feet up and enjoy...plus only 5 more days at work - yay!

I hope everyone else has had a more successful IHSW than I did, but I can't complain really!

I will be back on Wednesday as I am door number 19 in Jo's Advent Blog Hop!

Have a great week! xo

#51 A Wonderful Gift

Some time ago you may remember I was informed I was the lucky winner of a gift from notes from under the mountain for becoming her 150th follower. Finally today my gift arrived from the other side of the world!

Turns out Lee has relatives who were originally from Yorkshire so that was a happy coincidence! Its strange, so many people seem to have one relative or another who decide to pack up and move to the other side of the world, in my case my Grandma's sister and her children.

Anyway, look how gorgeous this is! A beautiful little note book, I feel very lucky to have something so beautiful - I think I may never dare use it as it is just too precious!

Thank You Lee! :)

 On to my own stitching, Lily has a few more stitches in her, forming the bottom on her eye and a couple of eyelashes so far. I'm hoping this weekend I will get plenty done as I don't have David here to annoy distract me.

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The snow has been falling here today and it making every attempt to settle, it's really starting to feel festive :)

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Emma xo

#50 December time! :)

Hurrah the time is finally upon us where people can no longer say to me its too early to think about Christmas - Three weeks today!! :D

With this in mind the tree went up over the weekend along with lights, snowflakes and whatever else I could find that was remotely festive.

Cards have been sent in the mail and wrapping of presents will start this weekend - the other half is visiting family in Scotland so I know its safe to do so without the risk of him seeing!

It is lovely to see everyone's blogs and how everyone is getting trimmed up for the holiday season :)

On to stitching. Well...with me getting festive fever I only managed to get any done on Sunday evening and Monday. Now, it may not be what you are thinking...it wasn't on Twilight Magic...I may have started one of my 2013 projects a little early... :D

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What do you mean you can't tell what it is?! Hehe, not much but this is the beginnings of Lily. Once all the thread arrived I could wait no longer.

Looking at this photo now I can actually see the start of her eye, which I couldn't close up.

Sadly the photo does not show the gorgeous hand dyed fabric I am working on, so I will try to get another in daylight at the weekend.

Hope you all have a great week :)

Emma xo