And now for something completely different…

Before anyone worries, I haven't abandoned my Christmas cross stitch, but I've been working on it since August and I needed a break. There's only so long you can stay interested in stitching white on red and apparently my limit is 6 months! I did do a few more of the snowflakes but it's started…

2017 Goals – How did I do?

At the start of the year I wrote a post about my goals for the year. All of them. From my craft goals, to blogging, to reading, to Spanish, to my etsy shop. All of the things I planned to do this year. You can check it out here if you want to but I'm…

Cross Stitch Progress (SAL)

I finally managed to unpick all of the backstitching on my Peter pan quote and can show you a proper picture of the finish. Here it is framed and hooped. I'm pretty proud of the fact I designed that and as always for any patterns I make it's available in my etsy shop as a…

Cross Stitch Update

First off I want to say thanks for all of the advice I got on my last cross stitch update. I've given a few of the ideas a go since then but I have to say it hasn't gone well. I tried back stitching in brown like a couple of you suggested, then green as…

Sal Update

I've gotten quite a lot of cross stitching done these last three weeks and its time to share my progress with you as part of our SAL. The stitch a long is a group who posts their progress every third Sunday. We all do our own projects so its really fun to see what each…

Cross Stitch SAL update

Hello everyone, it's time for another update on my cross stitching. Last time around I showed you another pin cushion finish but this time it's back to my Peter pan quote. Most of this stitching actually got done before I left for holiday as I've been feeling quite ill since being back. But there is lots…

Cross Stitching On (SAL Update)

Progress is a bit scattered on this one. Lots of chunks of different greens. I've been picking a colour and following it around the pattern so I'm not focusing on one leaf like I was last time. But here's where I was last time and this time with lots more green. You can see about…

Cross Stitch SAL update

Exciting milestone alert! No I haven't finished a piece but I have finished a section of a piece. The first leaf is done! (as well as a couple little forays north with the left over threads) And I've moved onto doing a little of the green leaves at the bottom too. Here's where I was…

I have no special talents but to try and try again (sal)

I have another update on my stitching to share as part of our Stitch a long. The group posts every three weeks and all the links of everyone else taking part in the SAL is near the bottom of the post. Here is the photo of where I was last time: I've just about managed to…

SAL update

After my rather disastrous update last time, I am very happy to say that my new project is going much better (so far!). Again, it's a pattern I've designed myself.It will say: "I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious" which is a quote by Einstein. Funny story time. I've had the idea…