A Stitching Love Affair

I have got my first finish for 2012! Holiday Cookies 28-count white evenweave DMC cottons Phew! didn't think I would get it finished so fast - yes folks this is fast for me! LOL Anyway on to my next WIP and see if I can get another finished...maybe... Michelle

I have some good news - I have a new job! I got sick of my bosses temper tantrums, so I gave my notice and start my new job on the 13th July. I CAN'T WAIT!!! Anyway back to the stitching - I have nearly finished (that's right nearly finished!) Holiday Cookies. Here is my progress: Before- After- Not long now, hopefully I will have finished it by my next post. Other than that I haven't done any other stitching, mostly because I have been out after work or training. We have had a locum dentist at work and she is sooooo nice, therefore we have had a few trips to the pub after work! Unfortunately she was only there for 2 weeks and now my regular, soon to be ex-boss is back :( I do however has some cute Ginga Ninja pictures- He likes to "display" himself in front of the fire. lol! Last night he decided to have a little nap inside Mum's tote bag. It was such a nice day today so I decided to got for a mountain bike ride. Still quite cold but rugged up...

This week we got a big dump of snow, and the worst part was that it froze overnight and was sooo icy in the morning - not good for driving in... Where the tracks in the the snow are, it was solid ice and very very slippery. So that meant we I got a day of work when it was snowing so of course there was only one thing to do - stitch! So far with Tuscany Town mandala I have been doing the little trees Before: After: I have also picked up another WIP, Athena, Goddess of Wisdom by Mirabilia I have also done some more on Holiday cookies Before: After: So overall I had a very busy week, and got done quite a lot of stitching! Also my favourite cyclist Jakob Fuglsang (a.k.a Wonderboy) hehe, won the Tour of Luxembourg Awww....he's so cute! Happy stitching!!! Michelle

Well I finally went back to Tuscany Town Mandala, and this how far I have got - Before- After- Well I must say I am getting there, and hopefully I can actually finish it this year! Here is my progress on Holiday Cookies before I put it away for a wee holiday... Before- After- Maybe I will even finish this one as well! I have been doing a bit of back stitching as I go because there is LOADS of it! I have been dying to do a new start, but I have been very, very good and not giving into temptation. When and only when I have finished one of these two WIPs can I start another one - Oh the agony!!! Other than stitching nothing much has been happening at my house, winter is nearly upon us and it's getting really cold, so I have set up my bike on the indoor trainer (it's virtual reality) so I can go cycling in France! Stops me getting completely bored and throwing the whole bike out the window :) Happy Stitching! Michelle

Well I had an interesting weekend, we had our prize giving for the Time Trial club and I won a trophy! Actually I didn't win it for this season, I won it last season but we didn't have a prize giving and no one had told me I had won it! Needless to say I was very pleased with myself and it was fun seeing MY name engraved on the trophy! Here I am feeling very pleased with myself... You may remember from my last post I was going to my friends 40th birthday party, well we had an awesome time and stayed up until 4am! A good time was had by all and I have one or two pictures to show, some of them aren't fit for general viewing (I don't really need to say more) This is at the start of the night, so were looking pretty good Lucy is very talented and plays the drums, piano, sings and can also play the ukulele! (think I spelt it right) Anyway onto the stitching. I have still only been doing the Holiday Cookies so not much to show other than that.. Before- After- I...

All I have worked on this week has been Holiday Cookies, I'm quite enjoying it at the moment so I shall keep going with it until I get bored Before- After- I have even done some backstitching on the house on the right, I thought I may as well get some done because there is quite a lot! I have also got another WIP I have dragged out to show you... This is a Mirabilia Design called Angel Proclamation, not sure when I started this - probably about 6 years ago at least, so who knows when I will finish it! I am going to Lucy's 40th birthday party this Friday night and I have made her a half apron for her Lucy loves leopard print and shoes, so I decided that I would combine both in this little creation, I'm sure she will love it as her style is very "out there" The weather is beautiful here at the moment, autumn is quite often really nice and warm, actually it's 21 degrees here which is warmer than it was in March, no doubt it won...

Just a little late posting this, I have had problems with our Internet because they are replacing the cable down our street and I think one of the morons workers did something to it! and then I left my camera USB cable at my parents house so I couldn't download any photos! Anyway I have had some big progress on Tuscany Town... Before: After: Not too far to go now, I will also do the bead work when I have finished all the cross stitch. I have also nearly finished Nora Corbetts letter "M" I just need the beads to finish it, and it will be my first finish for this year...and the year before...you get the picture.... Holiday Cookies is also going well- Maybe I will have two finishes this year! Now that would be a miracle! It's autumn here now and the leaves are starting to change into the beautiful golden yellow and amber colours, so I took a few photos of my parents garden And of course here some photos of my Ginga Ninja, who was being cute and fu...

I was very very excited to receive 3 parcels of stash from ABC Stitch  in the mail this week! In the first parcel was 6 charts I had ordered They were: Christmas at Hawk Run Hollow by Carriage House Samplers, Countdown to Christmas by Blue Ribbon Designs, The Flood and Fruit of the Spirit by Plum Street Samplers, Kringle's Christmas Tree Farm and Contentment by Praiseworthy Stitches. In the second parcel was The Library by Little House Needleworks The third parcel was 32 count linen - Waterlily and all the beautiful crescent colour threads for the Nora Corbett letter M. So as you can imagine, what do I start first? Well I decided to go with the letter M as I have the linen and threads to start. Also and update on Holiday Cookies, which is going well mostly because it's really easy to stitch, and also quite exciting because I don't have any idea what it's really going to look like when finished. Before - After - I also brought a couple of knitting book...