#44 Only 23 days...

...until December 1st! Which means I can put my Christmas decorations up with the other half complaining!

I have a finish and a half to share tonight.

First up was the skiing Polar Bear I finished a while ago,I finally got round to adding some backing fabric and turned it in to a little ornament for the tree. I wasn't sure if it would be too large or not, but luckily it turned out a perfect size.

The finish is less than perfect, finishing has never been my strong point. But I'm happy enough. Forgive the bad lighting, Winter time means I don't see daylight during the week!

Secondly I finished my gingerbread man...and about 20 minutes later accidently butchered him with my scissors...nooo! Much more and he would have lost his head! So, I had to improvise. I decided to back him on the some "crazy patchwork" as I call it, using all my festive looking fabric and felt scraps.

Now I am stuck, I don't really know what to do with him. I fear he may go in to the cupboard until further notice until I get a bright idea.

Oh well.

Now to decide what to work on next...

Have a great week everyone - hopefully I will have more progress on one of my projects to share at the weekend.


Emma xo

#34 Computer Games are Evil

My Goodness, despite having the week off yesterday was the first day I picked up the needle and thread for the first time in over a week! It's all to blame on the new World of Warcraft expansion, but hooray I have levelled up to 90 now (the new max level) so (maybe) my stitching will get some more attention.

But!

I do have a finish to show you - the break seems to have turned me in to a speed demon with the needle.

The thread and pattern for this came to me as part of a giveaway from the lovely Minnie over at http://minnie-allxxs.blogspot.co.uk/ and I must admit I think he has turn out great, the pattern is by Twisted Threads and having looked online they seem to have more patterns I would like, I just need to find one which ships over to the UK.

So now he is done I need to work out what to do with him. Originally I was going to turn him in to a decoration for the tree but I'm not sure if he might be a bit on the large size. Any suggestions?

Sticking with the Christmas theme I simply must show what arrived in the mail for me last week, my very talented friend from school who is also in to craft but more the beading/clay side of things made some personalised decorations, when I saw them I asked if she could add cats to them (they are as much part of the family to me) and sure enough here is the result!

I love it - now I just have to wait for Christmas now :(

If you want to have a look for yourself *click here* for her Facebook page, or you can find here under Jelsie Bug.

If you have made it this far well done - thank you again for the kind comments and the new followers, and as I have hit over the 50 mark now I may hold a small giveaway. I'll have a think about what to do then let you know at the weekend (as long as WoW doesn't distract me too much).


Emma xo

#32 light colours are a pain to photo!

Good Evening!

Today has been nothing but rain and a little bit more rain on top of that! So I did some stitching, I guess there is always a silver lining.

First, I did a bit more work on Twilight Magic, this first page is driving me a little crazy now as it is nothing but background colour, so even when I get it done all it will be is a huge block of colour! I'm tempted to move on to the next page as then I will get to work on the girls hair, but no, for now at least I will keep on stitching away on the background. I guess it needs doing sooner or later.

So this is what it looked like the last time I showed you...

08-09-12

And here it is now!

23-09-12

Not much for two weeks is it? Although you can't see in the photo that well the large block on the right hand side is a mixture of a few colours. Maybe next time I will try to photo in daylight and perhaps it will show up better.

Today, I worked on something I hadn't touched for ages, but with the reminder it is now less than 100 days to Christmas (eek!)  I thought I better crack on with it and get some more done.

The last time I left it looking like this;

And now it looks like this;

I'm not sure if you can even see it in the photo but I added the bears hand, his front legs and his skis.

Can't believe the weekend is nearly over once again and with the arrival of the the new World of Warcraft expansion this week I fear my stitching may suffer even more than it already has these past few weeks.

I hope everyone else's is more successful than mine!

Emma xo

#25 A little here, a little there...

I don't know what has been wrong with me this week, everytime I settled down with some stitching my mind would wonder off to some other project I wanted to work on!

So, I don't have all that much to show this week.

Stepping Stone Cottage was put away as I knew in this frame of mind I would end up making mistakes on something so complex so I stuck with a couple smaller projects.

First up was my goodies I got from the lovely Minnie a while back. Wahoo Jumper! :D

Then, when my mind got distracted thanks to the arrival of some threads I needed I started work on my next charity squares. This time its a Disney quilt so I am doing Baloo and Mowgli from Jungle Book :)

Fingers crossed next week will be a bit more productive...

Emma xo