The last full day!

I have spent the last full day stitching on White Nights. There are still two weeks of the school holidays left but we have a big holiday planned, amongst other things.  I'm really pleased with the progress I've made over the last three and a bit weeks, the end really is in sight!

This is actually the top of the design! Not the best photo but it gives an idea of progress.

This is the top, again the wrong way up because that is how it is on the frame.

Happy stitching!

What a difference a week makes!

These are my latest progress pics of White Nights.  Even I can't believe how much progress I've made in a week, and that doesn't include Saturday or Sunday as we were at 'The Railway'.  This is of the top left hand corner,

and this the top right hand corner.

This is a closeup of the corner section.

Finally, the whole thing, well as much as you can see!

Fingers crossed for just as much progress next week.

Happy stitching!

Relocated

Last Friday morning I packed up the car and drove across the Pennines, from Lancashire to Yorkshire, to my husband's house.  The first thing to be unpacked was White Nights.  On Friday afternoon, before I had unpacked anything else, I completed a substantial part of the boarder, the right hand upper pointy bit on the next photo.

We had visitors at the weekend so not much got done.  First thing on Monday morning it was time for a roll up on the frame.  These are photos of my progress before that happened.

I stitched on Monday and today (Tuesday), alongside doing other stuff around the house and in the garden, more of that later.  I am really pleased with my progress over the two days.

Both parts of the border are finished.

Mind you with a stitching view like this

and a nice patio area where I can sit and stitch,

I'm not surprised I'm making good progress.  Mind you the patio yesterday morning was not quite so nice.  Most of the flower beds were full of the plant in the top corner so after a trip to ASDA, for some tools, B&Q for some plants, two and a half hours of digging out and twenty minutes replanting, the above was the result!

I'm hoping that this good weather we are having, at last, holds out so I can spend many more hours outside stitching away!

Pre-packing update

Tomorrow is the last day of term!  At last I might be able to spend some quality time stitching.  Here is a picture of my latest finish, well not quite, as it needs to be finished off. It's 'The Wedding Quadrielle' from The Sweetheart Tree.

I have managed to do some work on White Nights, but not as much as I had hoped.

This summer I am hoping to finish this off, hence the post title, as the whole project frame, floss etc is about to be packed up and moved to my husband's house, which is where I am decamping to for most of the summer.


Fingers crossed I finish it! Then what next, what will be the next big project? Might need to have another poll.


Happy stitching!

Another finish!

In my last post I mentioned that I had finished Miss Kitty's Dragons by Just Nan, I think I had finished it all bar putting the charms on.  Here it is.

Now all I need to do is to decide how to finish it.

I have also managed to finish another project, Summer from Jardin Privé, not that we're having much of a summer here in the UK.

This was stitched as charted with DMC floss, except that I stitched the project with one strand of floss rather than the recommended two.


This week it's back to White Nights. I have decided to blitz this project over the summer, with the aim to get it finished this year. I've made a start this evening and am going back to it as soon as this is posted!

Back with a finish!

Nearly a month since my last post! Not good. Yet again things have been a bit hectic but should be calming down now.  I have managed two finishes since my last post but I can only show you one of them at the moment.  This is The Crabbiest Castle on the Beach!  a Silver Needle Secret Needle Night project from May 2009.

My other finish is Just Nan's Miss Kitty's Dragons, photo next time.

We got the wedding  photos from the official photographer a couple of weeks ago. Here is one of the few of me not holding my dress up to avoid the wet .

This one is on the front page of the photographer's website!

I hope everyone enjoys the long weekend and gets lots of stitching done!

A busy few weeks!

Well I'm still here!  It's been a busy couple of weeks since my last post what with exam marking and other work related stuff which has taken up most of my evenings.  Not much stitching has been done, in fact none, that's how bad it has been.  Anyway, I do have some things to show you.  Firstly, whilst we were on our mini mystery honeymoon I knitted two more scarves.

I say 'mini mystery honeymoon' because we went away for three nights but I did not know where we were going, hence the mystery.  Our first night was spent at the Midland Hotel in Morecambe

This hotel is described as an iconic art deco hotel and it does not disappoint.

The second night was spent at Holbeck Ghyll Country House Hotel in the Lake District.

The final night was spent on the other side of the country on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne.

Fingers crossed more stitching next time.

Four finishes and a wedding!

Two weeks exactly since my last post and a lot has gone on! In the week running up to 'Our Big Day' things were so relaxed that I was able to finish a few things off. Firstly the scarf that I had started to knit.

Then I finished Official Crazy Cat Lady from Raise the Roof Designs.

This was stitched in the recommended over dyed floss on an unknown fabric, which has cat paws printed on it. I will probably make this in to a bell pull.

 

The next thing to be finished was the Spooky Greetings Bell Pull from Waxing Moon Designs.  I have the pull ware for this so finishing it off will be tonight's job.  Next up another scarf hit the knitting needles. Knitted in a different type of 'wool' this was a much easier knit than the previous scarf.

Anyway, enough of the finishes. Here are some photos of 'Our Big Day'.

These were taken by family and friends, the more arty ones by the official photographer. Next time I will post some photos from our Mini Mystery Honeymoon. Mystery, because I did not have a clue where we were going! It was all booked by the Groom and as you will see next time he did a good job.

Happy stitching!

A finish of a different type!

This weekend I finished my jumper. It is based on Sarah Lund's one from the TV series The Killing.

This is the first thing I have knitted in a long time and I really enjoyed doing it. So much so that I have another project on the needles.  This time a scarf.

I had a lot of school stuff to do last week so very little was done on White Nights, but every stitch is progress.

I have a couple of projects packed for the next two weeks, one of which is a new start, but with 'Our Big Day' only five days away now who knows how much I will get done!

Happy Easter to everyone. 'Our Big Day' pictures next time.