Getting Festive

I hope you all had a good time at haloween. My children when out trick or treating and came back with enough sweets to keep them going until Christmas. They thought it was very successful.

Over the last few weeks, when Hubby has been away of an evening, I've taken a break from Dragonfly and continued to stitch on the Advent calender. I've now finished through to No. 5 and No.6 just need the backstitch adding. Hopefully, I'll finish that tonight.

I'm still not sure how I'm going to finish them, I was going to cut them out, fray the edges and sew onto littlebags that I was going to make, but now I'm not so sure (just because of the work really). I've stitched them all onto one piece of fabric so they will have to be cut out and turned into something. Any inspiring ideas greatfully accepted. Although why I'm worrying about finishing them at the moment is beyond me - it's taken nearly two years to stitch this many!

The eyes have it!

Yes, my Dragonfly girl has two eyes now. She looks back at me as I work. I've now finished 6 pages of the 20 and an still happy working on her. I really thought I would want a change by now but appart from feeling guilty about not stitching on Enchanted Flute, there are no projects I would rather be doing.

I have managed to do a bit more of the EMS Advent Calender (if anybody remembers I was even doing it.) I'll try to get some update pics next time hubby is away. I'm currently on number 5 - it's only taken me two years! I'm only stitching on it when he is away so it's taking along time. It won't be ready this Christmas but maybe next year ?

Long Time No See!

Where have I been? I don't really know. My only excuse is Life - it just gets in the way of everything I want to do. Please could somebody add another few hours to the day - and then stop me beeing too tired to enjoy them!

Anyway, my abscence from the bloggy world has not meant an abscence from my stitching. I have taken a break from Dragonfly and stitched some more on Celtic Summer. She now looks like this:-

All the gold made me start to think of Christmas, and that reminded me of a beading kit I had started for last Christmas, attaching about three beads and then abandoning it. In need of a quick finish and a break from all my BAPS I went back to it. The result is this (appologies for the appauling photograph):-

As far as Dragonfly is concerned, I've done about half a page since my last post and the second eye is now appearing.

I will try to post more regularly again, but you know what they say - the best laid plans ....

Happy stitching all and if anybody is still watching this blog, thank you for visiting and your patience.

Eye Eye!

Well one eye anyway. I've finished page 5 of Dragonfly. I've taken a week off work this week to be with the children and they've dissapeared with their friends all day, leaving me with the time to stitch - what a luxury. No don't remind me about all the chores I should have been doing!

I'm really impressed with how the eye has turned out. It's got so much depth to it, I couldn't see it while I was stitching but as soon as I stepped back from her Wow. And that's not blowing my own trumpet it's all credit to the charters at HAED and, of course, the original artist, Selina Fenech.

Whooops!

As you can see I've been messing about with my blog and I really don't know what has happened. Stay with me, hopefully I'll get it sorted some time!



Edit - think I've done it - let that be a lesson to me, it's taken me about 3 hours to sort it out!

Dragonfly update

I've been working hard on Dragonfly and I've now finished page 4, that's the first row of pages complete. As you can see I've also made a good start of page five, this has one of her eyes on so she will soon be looking back at me.

Home Sweet Home

I've put down Dragonfly long enough to stitch this piece for my sister who moved into her new home last week. I've made it up into a hanger but forgot to take a picture of it finished.


I've still been very busy with Dragonfly and have actually finished page 4 and started page five (the second row of pages - so exciting). I'll try and get a pic in the next few days and update you.