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I hope everyone had a fun IHSW, even if you didn't get to stitch as much as you wanted. Does that ever happen? I'm very happy to announce I actually finished something! This was a WIP from around September 2011, so it's nice to cross something off that huge list of WIPs I have. I'm happy to present: Christmas Drop by AAN! The main ornament is stitched with DMC satin, I think it was 666, and the yellow is Soie Crystale, but I lost the tag. Hopefully you can read it says "Merry Christmas" in the middle. The top ribbon is...

As usual, I didn't have as much time as I would have liked to stitch, but I still accomplished by goal of finishing Day 5 of the 12 Days of Xmas. I didn't quite finish Day 11, but a fair amount of the cross stitch is done for him. So 2 1/2 to go, plus a heart at the end all in metallics, thankfully I have Thread Heaven to make it possible. I think I have a good chance of completing the stitching this month, and that would be a unique experience. I'm usually finishing stitching December 24! Hope everyone had...

I had all day Sunday to stitch and an unexpected day off Wednesday, so I managed to finish off Days 3,4,9, and 10. Over halfway done now, so hopefully I'll have time to complete the entire design in time to get it finished completely for Xmas. Here are the photos: The French Hen and the Lady Dancing for Days 3 and 9 respectively were fairly lengthy to complete compared to Days 4 and 10. I do like the look of them though. The 4 Calling Birds look a little like fish to me, but oh well. I do like the enthusiastic...

I didn't have as much time as I wanted to stitch this weekend, despite it being IHSW, but that seems to be how it goes these days. I did get a fair bit completed on the next 2 motifs of 12 Days of Xmas though.  The Lady-Dancing is almost completely stitched and the French Hen is well on it's way. Hopefully I'll finish them up this week.  Earlier this past week I did spend some time on my sort-of secret gift for my DH. Any guesses on what it is?  And I was lucky enough to have a ride to work...

Thank you for all your encouragement! Of course I didn't get as much done as I would have liked, but I pretty much met my main goal, which was to finish the top 4 rows on the HAED Siberian Forest QS. Even DH will admit it's starting to look like something now.  And I'm getting the hang of parking, so that has made this a lot easier to stitch. I think if I had a month to work on it I would be all caught up, but of course I have a million other WIPs to do! Here's a bit of...

I'm still not completely finishing my carnival piece, I must finish tonight! I'm slightly farther ahead as I'm maybe halfway done the big hot air balloon that goes above the roller coaster. I'm going to take it to work with me today and stay up late tonight if I need to. With luck I'll be done tonight! Here's another shot of the full piece, I have 3 1/2 more rows of the pink to complete in the hot air balloon and then all the top colour, plus the small balloon, which I could leave out if necessary. We'll see how it...

Well it was a beautiful weekend, so I wasn't inside stitiching as much as I might have normally. I still got a bit done on my carnvial piece though. First here's a better picture of the finished piece. I'm about halfway across the bottom and I'll finish the bottom before returning for the middle parts. Part of the reason is I'm waiting on the GlissenGloss thread, the other part is I think my fabric is a little too big, but I wanted to stitch everything first before making any cuts. And here's my progress so far. Not too bad, and I'm...

I suffered a bit of ennui this weekend, so I didn't finish quite as much as I'd hoped. And I realized I'm not that fond of White Wolves as I thought. So it's been somewhat of a pain. At least I haven't made any mistakes as far as I know. I'll likely do White Wolves every other day as I did with Angelic Melody until it's finished. Hopefully that won't be too long.  The left most stitching is the very end of the chart, and I am much happier stiching in my Qsnap than that old scroll frame. It was pretty...

I started IHSW a little early and managed to finish Angelic Melody!! It's been a long haul since I started her for the Crazy January Challenge last year, but she is finally finished!  Yes, she still needs a little more ironing and then I'll add the strings to her mandolin, but I still feel as though she's finished. A little TLC and she'll be perfect.  I also managed to finish another piece, Lady Kell's 2012 Band Sampler. I stitched it on 14 count navy aida with WDW Bethlehem and Meadow. It was a nice break after the fussiness of finishing the Angelic...

It's that time again! Time to hermit and stitch! I hope the finish Angelic Melody before this weekend, but if not, then I'll definitely be working on that. With luck I'll go back to another Xmas project, or perhaps the HAED freebie SAL QS Siberian Forest.  Good luck fellow hermiters! Tiffstitch...

My wonderful DH was going to be near my new favourite LNS and was able to pick up some of the threads for my Xmas tree. Unfortunately they didn't have anything for my 2012 Sampler, and only 2 each of Ivy and Autumn Leaves by WDW. He was able to order WDW Bethlehem, but the clerk told him the horrifying news that this store would not be stocking WDW anymore!! NO!!! I finally found this place after searching the WDW website for a nearby place that carried their threads, and now they're not stocking them anymore.. argh! I've emailed the owners...

I spent an excellent weekend with my DH and my dogs and I did manage to get a lot of stitching done. There's still a ton to do by Saturday, so we'll see. I think it's impossible, but there may be a chance.  ...

This weekend I will finally join the Internation Hermit and Stitch Weekend. One of my few weekends off work and I need the time to try and finish my mother-in-law's Christmas gift, Angelic Melody. I've been following the IHSW all year, but I've never had the opportunity to participate until now. It's definitely needed since I still have over half of the stitching left to do on this project, not to mention all the backstitch. I think there are a few places I can skip the backstitch would should save me some time, but there is still a lot to get...