Expect My Ramblings More Often

Wow it's been a long time since I wrote a blog on here. I am so sorry for not keeping up with it.

I haven't had an awful lot of time to cross stitch lately but I am starting to get the bug back now.  At the moment I am cross stitching 4 Christmas Stockings for my kids and one for my sister.  I have also stitched 3 baubles, I just need to sew them together now and my HAED is a third of the way through now.

I will get some photo's taken and put them up here in the next day or two.  But for now, I am back so you can expect my ramblings more often.

Update of WIPs

I had a great weekend stitching, I stitched for a total of 7 1/2 hours over Saturday and Sunday.  I have put updated photos of all my WIPs on my projects page.

Last night I decided to start a new project, it is only small so shouldn't take very long.  I thought my stitching diary looked very plain and boring...

So I looked though my magazine for a design I could stitch to put on the front cover.  After lots of mind changes I decided to go for a deign that I found in Cross Stitch Crazy issue161. Its a twist on the popular Keep Calm and Carry On posters, they have 4 different designs in the magazine....

I decided to go for the Keep Calm and Start Stitching design but I have changed it slightly.  Instead of filling in with stitches, I found a scrap of coloured Aida so that will save me time too.  I went with the red Aida as this is what colour the original posters are in....

Hopefully I will get this finished in the next day or 2 and I will keep you updated.

I hope you all had a lovely weekend, take care xxx

I love Saturdays

Yesterday I made great progress with my 3 WIPs.  In the afternoon I spent an hour each on the needlebook and the Fizzy Moon card.  Then in the evening when the kids had gone to bed I spent 2 and half hours on the tiger.  I love the weekends when I get to spend lots of time sewing, my DH is at home so he takes a bit of the housework off me so I have more free time.  Today I have got to go to my local sewing shop to see if they have DMC 310 in stock, I've been in there every weekend for the past month now and they haven't had any in but I'm in desperate need for it to carry on with the tiger.

I hope you all enjoy the rest of your weekends and I will get some updated pictures up soon. xx

Cherry Blossom

What a beautiful couple of days it has been.  The blossom is out on the Cherry Tree and it feels good to get some sunshine on my skin.  I am writing this sat outside whilst doing my work.  I don't think in the whole time that I have been self employed that I|have managed to sit outside whilst working and it's only March!  I made a massive progress with my tiger picture last night (I will post an updated photo on my projects).  I have also got 2 small things on the go at the moment, which I hate doing because I feel guilty that I'm not stitching them.  My local sewing shop has run out of DMC 310 which is what I need the most so I need to order some online, does anyone know of any good reliable and fast online companies?

Anyway hope you are all enjoying the weather and managing to get some stitching done. xxx

Work in Progress

So what can I say?  I love Cross Stitch, if I could sit and do it all day then I would but unfortunately I don't have time so I try to settle down in the evening once the kids are in bed, for an hour or two.  My family aren't demanding of me and they all help out around the house but I am also running a business so I don't get a lot of spare time to myself.  I have a project on the go at the moment that I am about two thirds through.  It is of a tiger lying on a tree.