A finishing weekend and the cat in the bag!

This weekend I was able to get two more WIPs finished. Firstly I was able to properly finish the Scaredy Sheep Scissor Fob from Shepherd's Bush. Here it is with it's companion piece, here we go a haunting. This is framed in the usual £3.50 ish photo frame from from Wilkinsons but this time The Other Half stained the frame with black wood stain so that it matched the box.


The Hootzi Humbug from Just Nan also got finished. This was not stitched on the suggested fabric but on something else, I've no idea what, as it came from the off cuts box at The Nimble Thimble. Here it is on the light tree. Bye the way The Other Half has not made any comment about the appearance of the second tree yet!


The next photo is one I had intended to post last time but forgot. This is Oscar, he belongs to friends we stayed with last week, and he is inside my floral travel bag!


Thanks for all your comments about Mary Wigham. Have a great stitiching week.

The first finishes of 2010!

This is my first finish of 2010. Started on New Year's Day, I finished 'Here we go a haunting' from Shepherd's Bush at quarter to nine last night, January 2nd.


I also have the matching scissor fob to go with it. The little box also very nice. This is the first time I've stitched anything by Shepherd's Bush and I really enjoyed it. A good job as I have three of their snowmen in my stash!

My second finish is 'Simply Snowdays' by Waxing Moon Designs. By rights this should have been the last finish of 2009 but I ran out of one of the Weeks Dye Works colours and had to wait for some more to come in the post. This photo was taken on the phone so is not of very good quality.


Recently my mind has been on my stitching plans for this year. So far this is what they are looking like. Starting with the first full week of the month
Week 1
Something from the stash, starting off with 'Icy Hill' or 'Barnabee's Quest' or maybe 'Lady Scarlet's Journey', any way something from Just Nan.
Week 2
Something else from the stash starting with 'Simply Spring' from Waxing Moon Designs followed by the Autumn and Winter Arbors from The Drawn Thread (Spring and Summer were completed last year)
Week 3
St Nicholas Tree Skirt
Week 4
White Nights in St Petersburg
Saturdays
Timeless Elegance Christmas decorations for Yoyo's SAL
Sundays
Mary Wigham
Where the month has five weeks I am going to do 'Open House', which is nearly finished, followed by something that can be done in a week.
Well that's the plan, let's see what happens.