I'm Back...For Now At Least

I've been gone for a good few months, stitching took a back burner so I didn't blog anything. I have done some stitching, I treated myself to some new kits in an Easter sale, all of them Woodland Folk Kits. I completed a mini kit of Sally Squirrel (pictures to follow). But that was only after catching up with all the posts I'd missed on the Cross Stitch Community and that was all i needed to give me the motivation to carry on stitching. 

One of the main reasons I stopped stitching was because I got a promotion at work, (yay go me!) so all I seemed to do is get up, go to work, come home, have tea fall, asleep on the sofa, go to bed and then repeat it all again the following day. I've decided that I need to try and make the time to do some stitching even if its only for an hour or so a week, so over the past 2 days I've been stitching whilst having a Doctor Who marathon and spending some time with my sister. Which is exactly what I'm doing as I'm writing this :D

So now for some pictures of Sally Squirrel:

 

 

I've also been working on my Pokémon
 project over the past couple of days as well.

So here's to hopefully more stitching :D

Mini Kit Completed

After a week plus of feeling ill and several days of doing nothing but sleeping I've finally managed to finish off the mini kit I got free in a magazine. I only had the back stitch left to do, but I always find that the most annoying part of the kit especially when there's a lot of little fiddly bits to stitch.

I would have probably finished it off last week if it wasn't for me having to move things from my parents house on my days off then feeling really ill over the weekend.

Some of the pictures aren't really that clear, but you can see how the kit developed as I stitched more and more of it. I'm glad I decided to do this kit and working on such a big kit most of the time you don't get that feeling of accomplishing anything. Stitching something small gives me that without taking up too much of my time. So, all that's left is to mount it to the card that it came with and decide who I'm going to give it to and for what reason. Now back to stitching Pokémon until I decide to do another mini kit or even a full size one =]

Pokémon and New Project March Update 1

So once again I'm a bit late on posting an update. Over a week late to be precise, I do have good reasons for this as I started a mini project that I got free in one of my magazines and I had wanted to get it finished before I posted anything. Unfortunately its taken longer than I planned as I only seem to work on it whilst I'm watching TV. 

The only reason I actually started the free kit was  because I went round to visit my parents after work one day and they were out doing the shopping. So whilst I waited I decided I might as well pass the time by started the kit in my new magazine. All I actually managed to get done before they got home was sort out all the different coloured threads.

When I was back at my house I ended up forgetting all about it and doing some more of my Pokémon. I had hoped I would manage to finish off the page I was on, but most of the stitches that are left are lots of different colours with a couple of stitches for each. My aim for my next update for my Pokémon project is to have the page finished.

The mini project I am working on, was the free gift in issue 214 of the World of Cross Stitching magazine. Its a card with a picture of a cat sat in a plant pot with a bird and a flower. Its nice working on something that only has a few colours to use rather than over a hundred. I've nearly finished the plant pot, then I'm going to make a start on the cat.

Fingers crossed I do get time to do some stitching next week, as I have a busy week moving the rest of my things from my parents house. It's only taken me over a year to do it :D Thanks for reading =]