Stitching for Christmas!

I decided this year that I wanted to stitch some Christmas ornaments ready for the tree in December. I've wanted to do this other years but never really got any done so I am pretty determined to have a few new stitched by me ornaments! So before Christmas last year I bought the Prairie Schooler leaflet A Christmas Visit and I've just completed my first ornament, Welcome, from it. So that's one down, 6 to go! Of course I hope to stitch some from the JCS ornament magazines too over the next few months. I stitched this using DMC. Not sure of the fabric as it's a scrap I found in my fabric box!

While I was stitching this up I also stitched up Dragonfly Stitches Valentine Heart but it's not completely finished yet and I couldn't show it yet even if it was! Watch this space! Lol!

Last night was Ink Circles Sea Stars SAL with Karen. I continued to stitch on the octopus and still didn't get it finished but he's coming along nicely. I hope to finish him next week and stitch something different:) I think I'll probably do another motif rather than the ship's wheel.

For the rest of this week I am supposed to be stitching on HAED Winter but I have come to the conclusion that I am just not a two BAP ( for those who don;'t know Big Assed Project) girl. Out of the two, both HAEDs Winter and Guardian ( we are talking 30 odd chart pages in each), I think I have more chance of actually finishing Guardian with it only being 8 colours and having big blocks of colour so Winter is going to be taking a back seat for some time. I know a lot of HAED stitchers stitch more than one BAP but I just can't do it and I don't still want to be stitching them in 10 years time and I don't see the point in wasting valuable stitching time if they're never going to get finished. So that's that! Just one HAED BAP and one quick stitch for the foreseable future.

I think my GAST and WDW order from JJ's will be despatched soon so I might just get them in time to start the Blackbird Designs Yahoo Group SAL which was postponed until 29th February because there were a few still waiting for supplies. I just had an invoice for shipping and handling charges so I'm guessing they'll be shipped today. I'm looking forward to starting this SAL as it'll be my first ever BD design:)

Oh I must tell you about Kyrie's PIF! Kyrie wrote on her blog when she posted a picture of the fob I stitched that the forget me not is the symbol for Chronic Fatique Syndrome which she suffers from. I had no idea that it was the symbol so it must have been fate that I chose to stitch the forget me not scissor keeper for her:) So glad you liked it Kyrie:)

Thank you for continuing to visit me in my little world here and for leaving the wonderful comments:) I appreciate it so much:)

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