Catching Up! ( Picture Heavy)

Hello! I'm hoping you'll still be with me seen as I've disappeared again. I decided I'm going to catch up today and then, hopefully, blog more regularly. I think what has been putting me off has been I'm so far behind showing my finishes so this post is going to be picture heavy I'm afraid with those and my WIPs!

So let's get started with my WIPs. As you know I am doing a few SALs so first of all this is my sheep SAL with Barb. It is Plum Street Samplers Kringle and Woolard which I'm stitching on 40 count vintage country mocha. 

Another SAL is a Lizzie Kate with Barb and Sue. I have just finished Snow Belles ( see photo further down post!) so I have just started Home is the Nicest Word There Is. I am going to have to frog the E in The and the word Nicest as it's all too high up. 

Barb, Sue and I are also stitching on LHN Farmhouse Christmas still but we are on the last one now. I have enjoyed stitching these but I think I am ready for something different. 

Sue and I are stitching Silver Creek Samplers My Christmas List. I am loving stitching this and hoping to finish it for Christmas and on the wall. Fingers crossed!

I am still stitching on the Dessine Par Elke Christmas SAL but I forgot to take a photo! I can't show my last WIP as it for an ornament exchange so no peeking at that one until it is finished and received.

As you all know we commemorated 100 years since the end of WW1 on Sunday. I made a wreath to put in my window but I don't know what I did with my photo so I'll show that next time! However I do have to show a beautiful glass plaque that was a gift from my dearest friend Barb made by her DH Martin. It brought tears to my eyes when I saw it and I will treasure it always. It is in memory of my paternal grandad's cousin who DOW at the Battle of Arras in May 1917. 

Here are a few photos from our town to commemorate 100 years. 

On Instagram there has been a stitchy wish list tag going round for a while and I popped my wish list up. A few weeks ago I received a lovely message from Jen @spooneriestitcher saying she could grant one of my wishes and it arrived recently. Not only did she send me the chart she also sent some DMC to stitch it with. This is going to be my New Year's Day start! Thank you Jen :)

So onto my finishes now and I actually think I will just let the photos do the talking! 

Thank you for reading and looking at my photos. I know there are a lot but now I am caught up!

Until next time. With much love.

Sally xxxx

A Birthday Present and Ramblings

I have finally finished the gift for my friend's birthday but, unfortunately, not in time to get it in the post before Royal Mail start their latest round of strike action so it won't go in the post now until next Wednesday. I loved stitching this piece. As you can see it's LHN/ CCN Bee Pinkeep from the January issue of The Gift of Stitching but I have finished it as a simple ornament. It is stitched on an unknown Sugar Maple Fabric using DMC. I added a bee button to the top left as Abi noticed that I hadn't added the yellow bits to that bee and as I'd stitched it all up I couldn't stitch them! Jess found this highly amusing for some reason! I also added one of my little Made with Love charms which I had forgotten I had!

As you may have noticed I have set up a poll in my side bar. I am having a hard time with HAEDs at the moment and have hit a real low with them recently. I really don't want to stop stitching them all together but I feel that if I carry on with two full sized and a quick stitch I will just go off them completely. Now I have a lot of HAED charts in my stash and I'd hate not to stitch them ( although I have gone off some of them but that's another story!) so I have decided to cut down to one full sized and one quick stitch. So the poll is simply which full sized one do I continue stitching so please vote and help me decide:) The two to choose from are Winter which you can see here and Guardian which can be seen here Thank you for taking the time to vote:)

I am waiting to see if I can sell some of the HAEDs I have decided I will never stitch and as soon as I know that I can I will add them to my for sale blog that I have set up. Well it's a for sale and wish list blog so I'll be transferring my wish list there and be giving DH the link to it! LOL! Well a girl can try can't she!

Now I have a question to ask all you bloggers out there but I think I may be unlucky. Is there anybody out there who has a spare Needleprint Beatrix Potter Sampler chart ( not the companion one) who would be willing to sell it for the normal retail price please. I have seen lots of lovely WIP pics of this and love it. I really wish I had seen it when it was still available as it is now OOP and searches of ONS have proved fruitless.

Tonight I am going to make a start on my ornament for Simone's Christmas ornament exchange. We get our partners tomorrow but I have already picked out the one I'm going to stitch ( Unfortunately not out of this year's issue as I still haven't got it), have sorted fabric and threads so am ready to go! Obviously I won't be able to show it yet but I'm excited at taking part in the exchange.

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog and I hope you continue to enjoy visiting:) {{{{{HUGS}}}}}