Happy Dance and Giveaway

The Travelling Stitcher by Little House Needleworks – completed 29th September 2009.

In celebration of this happy dance I’m going to  have a giveaway of the chart for Travelling Stitcher.  I can’t imagine that there will be many stitchers out there who haven’t already got this chart, as it was extremely popular when it was released, but if there is anybody who would like the chance to win the chart just leave a comment to this post and I will draw a name out of the hat in a weeks time on 6th October.  The only thing I would ask is that you put a link to this post in your blog.  Also included with the chart will be what’s left over of the Crescent Colors threads needed to stitch the design.  One colour I completely ran out of (the colour used for the words) but there are certain colours which were hardly used.

Hopefully to come tomorrow – pictures of South Seas Lace and Celtic Welcome (if I remember to put my camera battery on to charge LOL)

Silver lining

I’ve been unwell the last couple of days as my Crohn’s disease has flared up and I’ve been feeling completely miserable and sorry for myself.  As much as I don’t like taking time off work sick I stayed home yesterday and will stay home again today, just to make sure I’m 100% before I go back.  Working in a very small office with only one loo shared amongst everyone really isn’t good when you’ve got Crohn’s lol.

However, the silver lining to this dark cloud is that I spent most of yesterday stitching and intend on doing much the same today!   I worked on Travelling Stitcher and Growth Rings yesterday….

As it’s Wednesday today I think I’ll do a little more on Celtic Welcome, but may also squeeze an hour or two on Growth Rings again as I really enjoyed stitching on this yesterday.

Pictures!

In my last post I promised some pictures, but it took me a couple of days to find the memory card from my camera – thanks to Phill for “borrowing” it and not putting it back LOL

First a couple of catch up photos on a couple of WIPs.  South Seas Lace is a SAL with Claire and Vikki, but lately it’s been a bit more of a Non SAL for me.  At the moment I’m just about halfway through the design.

Sampler Cove’s Ribbon Sampler is next, I managed to get a few hours stitching in on this recently, but it is stitched on 40 count fabric so the progress isn’t very obvious!

Next up, a couple of new starts.  Firstly, Travelling Stitcher by Little House Needleworks.   I have finished the needlekeep part of the design and yesterday started on the main part.

Lastly, another SAL, this time with my sister Sheila – Celtic Welcome by Polstitches Designs.  There will be a slight difference in our finishes, Sheila is stitching the Welsh version so hers will say Croeso instead of Welcome.   We thought it would be interesting if we each started with a different dragon, so she is starting on the red dragon and I am starting on the white dragon.  She has posted her first pic on her blog and it looks great so far, unfortunately I had trouble taking a good photo as the light coloured stitching doesn’t show up too well on the fabric.

And finally, one last photo – a very rare photo LOL.  Last week there were signs that Mia was calming down a little, unfortunately she was just teasing and since then she has been absolutely crazy.  She is teething and is biting anything and everything at the moment.  At the weekends, if the weather is dry, she gets to go outside while we potter around in the garden – our back garden is totally enclosed so she can’t get out, but she has had a couple of scary moments when she climbed up a conifer tree and couldn’t work out how to get down LOL.  Her kitty instincts soon kicked in though and now she runs up and down the trees with no problem at all.  The best part of her getting some exercise comes later on in the day when we sit down to relax……

She stayed in this position for over an hour, and would probably have stayed there a lot longer, but Phill had to get up and move around LOL