Stitching and Other Pleasures

Thank you all for your lovely comments about my ornaments. I think I'm addicted to stitching them and I often wonder what will happen when my tree is full. LOL. But that won't be this year.


I received my exchange from Dani on the Needle & Thread BB yesterday. It only took a week to arrive so that was good. I'm hoping mine gets to her soon & then I can share a pic. But I can certainly share what Dani sent me. It's a stocking ornament (she says it's her first lined one). Not sure who the designer is though. She also sent me some goodies, Caramel snowmen which got squashed but still tasted mighty fine; some Christmas eggs which were also yummy, some DMC threads, pins and ribbon so now I can make a pinkeep! I've not done one of those before.

I've been busy ornamentifying this week so can now share a pic of all my ornaments from this year. A couple were stitched at the very end of last year but all were ornamentified this year. Luckily, I did a finishing day earlier in the year otherwise these would've taken me weeks to do! I'm very happy with my haul this year.

Well, not yet anyway. ;)


There's not much going on here that I can show you. I'm participating in 2 Christmas ornament exchanges & am stitching them right now. However, I can bore you with show you my current WIP, Angel of Winter. This was my mother's but I took pity on her when she told me she couldn't see the holes anymore. She now only works on 28ct but this is blah 32ct Quaker so the holes are much smaller. Of course, there's also a nasty fault in the fabric, smack in the middle. I thought I'd be stitching over that so no big one, right? Oh no, think again...have a look at the pic! It's in the only bloody bit that's not stitched. I have also decided to keep track of the hours stitched. I don't usually do that. So this is her after 7 hours stitching. Geez, it doesn't look much does it?