Totally Useless SAL, some decent photos and maths!

Firstly here is my Totally Useless SAL photo for this month. For some reason standing it upside down makes it look less full than it actually is.


My camera came back from repair today, hooray! No more out of focus phone photos. This camera is able to take better close up shots than my previous one so there will be some experimenting along the way. If I manage to take photos half as good as Jane at Miss Jane's Stitching I will be happy.

So these are two in focus shots of my recent finishes.




So far this week progress on White Nights has been slow. At this rate it is going to take a week for each of the buildings in part 5. There are eight of them. This means that I might get on to part 6 by September if I stick to doing White Nights one week a month. So if each subsequent part takes half a year to complete and there are six part left, that will be three years. So estimated completion date 2013. Now that is scarey. Having depressed myself I had better get back to it, one more evening to go. Let's hope I finish the building or I might have to adjust my calculations.

Maybe it's best not to do the maths in the first place.

Happy stitching

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.

Holiday stitching

Before I show you my holiday stitching efforts. Here are three Christmas decorations I made for members of my family.


The design,called Christmas Hearts, is a freebie from Just Nan here. Stitched as charted on 32ct opalescent white linen, I mounted them in small frames from Framecraft with the clear plastic taken out as the decorations are beaded.

Now for the holiday stitching. I apologise in advance for the poor pictures. These were take with the mobile phone as the camera has gone for repair. Firstly Mary Wigham.


Secondly my first ornament for Yoyo's SAL.


And finally, Father Christmas did enhance my stash. Here is Simply Snowdays from Waxing Moon Designs.


This will probably be my last post before the New Year. So best wishes to everyone for 2010!