Big Update

I am a Nana again! Lily Lisa Marie Baker Was born on Sunday night weighing 6lbs 11. She is grandchild number nine :-)

Castles in the Air

I finished part 6. I love the way this one looks.

The finished part.

How it looks overall.

Natures Vision

Although it is looking pretty good, I'm finding it hard to stitch on at the moment..............I am having trouble getting into it. I have to make an effort on it though as it is for my son Ashley.

Oriental Lady

This is a bookmark that became a UFO. I needed a small project to be able to do when I have my grandchildren so I fished it out. I had to frog the fan as I started it one stitch too high. I am back stitching as I go as there is an awful lot of it.

New Start

I purchased the first part of Around the World in Eighty Days when it first came out. I love doing speciality stitches and thought I might as well start it seeing I rarely have new starts seeing nearly everything I stitch is huge :-/

The fabric is Honeysuckle Pink Joblean but it does not show up very well in the bottom of the two photos.

An Amazing Bargain!

A bargain in England I hear you say when everything is so over priced? A bargain in RIP OFF BRITAIN? Very much so! Mother in law to be picked me up this from a car boot sale for £5! Yes you read that right, £5!

It is Lavender and Laces Celtic Summer. The chart has it's original price tag on it of £8.99.  It contains absolutely everything. Fabric, beads, threads, needles, original chart and photo copies of the chart. How amazing is that for £5! Thank you Mumsy!

It will have to wait for a while as I have L&L's Angel of the Sea to do first :-)

Monday was a busy day for me as it was a bank holiday and we drummed at Battle Medieval Fayre. It was such a beautiful day and I got severely sunburnt even though I was wearing a high factor sun screen. It has been raining since then. We are having crazy weather. I am beginning to wonder if we will even have a summer this year.

Castles in the Air

It has been a while since I worked on this and I needed a change from my other stitching.

This is so large that it is very hard to get a descent photo of it.

I finished this area and started the next:

I just love doing the speciality stitches.

I have worked on one of my HAED's and Natures Vision as well but there's not really enough done to warrant pictures this week.

CITA Part Five Finished!

When it comes to reading my updates, my blog is rather like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get, (as said Forrest Gump lol ).

I really wanted to spend this week exclusively on Green Man, but I had a massive urge to stitch on Castles in the Air.

Here is a before picture:

Here is a now picture:

A close up view of one of the areas just worked on.:

I love doing speciality stitches, the more intricate, the better!

Well until next time my lovely people!

Love and stitches one and all!

Update

This is my progress so far on Castles in the air. Nearly finished part four now. I'm trying to put a few stitches in most days to try and catch up.

This is Sue Hillis's 'Another Day Another Ship'. It is stitching up quite quickly. 

Sunday I met up with Sophia and Jenny, two local stitchers who advertised for other stitchers in one of the cross stitch mags. We are going to be stitching together most weeks, so should be fun.

Part 3 Finished

I finished part 3 of my Castle's in the Air Mystery Sal by Papillon Creations last night. I made a boo boo on it before I moved homes but didnt discover it till last night. I stitched the sides from part 3 arse about face, put sides 2 and 4 where parts 1 and 3 should go and vica versa. It don't really matter as they are practically the same, it just means the colours are in different places lol. My mind must have been elsewhere when I made the mistake as I usually pride myself in not making such big mistakes in my stitching lol. At least I don't have to frog it lol.

Castles in the Air-update

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I decided to finally get Castles in the Air out and get part 3 started and hopefully I will be able to finish it before part 4 comes out! I am really enjoying this as I love doing speciality stitches. I am not stitching as much as I could lately. I just don't feel like stitching a lot of the time but once I start stitching, then I am fine. Guess most stitchers get like that at times.

I am feeling pretty excited at the moment as well as we have just bid on a house. Don't know whether we will get it or not.

PT 2 finished of Castles in the Air

This afternoon I finished part two of the Papillon SAL, Castles in the Air. As much as I love stitching it, I had to force myself to do it as I have lost the plot where stitching is corncerned and over the past couple of weeks, have not even fancied stitching. And I'm fecked off as the printer won't print properly so I can not print part three out. The past two weeks have been very stressful for me, lots of things happening, some good, some bad and a smattering of bad panic attacks inbetween. And on top of all this poop, we are trying to move house. [Full story on the other blog.]

Part one finished.

I have finished the first part of the Castles in the Air Mystery SAL by Papillon Creation. I am really liking the way this is turning out. I am happy with the colours I have picked. I am leaving the beads for the moment as I want to see what part two holds before I comit finally to the two bead colours.

Weekend update

I got quite a lot down on Barbara Ana's 'Stitch or Die'. Hopefully It won't be too long before it is finished. This is a fun stitch as it is bright and cheerful.



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This is what I have done so far on Castles in the Air, the mystery SAL by Papillon Creation. It's starting to move along nicely. I am making sure I go slow and concise to get the counting bang on and first time due to the intricacy of the speciality stitches.



I haven't really worked on it over the weekend as I prefer to stitch this one with no Him Indoors or the kids around lol. Less likely to be mistakes that way!

Castles in the Air- Papillon Creations

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My fabric came this morning so I decided to start the mystery SAL. I am doing the speciality stitches version on 32ct Ivory Jobelan. I had a bit of a problem with the Queen stitches, but after much sewing , frogging, resewing, I got there in the end. I decided to do the speciality version for the challenge. I know some stitches and not others but the instructions are clear to follow. I am looking forward to seeing this one grow.

Today was Mothers day.

I haven't got much stitching done this weekend and this is it lol. Aprils Lizzie Kate Stamp.
I just paid a £1 for the Papillon Creations Mystery SAL. Never done a mystery sal and I said I never would lol. But I am looking forward to doing it. I have just ordered my fabby from sewandso's.



For Mothers Day, I got this lovely Orchid and a bottle of pink bubbly from my oldest daughter Becky. The orchid is actually purple but for some reason, it has come out pink in the picture.



The twins and my other daughter Kim, got me bunches of flowers.



And the twins also brought me these gold necklaces too. I am one lucky mum!