WIP, a Finish and Family Chat

Linen and Lace all finished! Once I picked this up again I got quite enthused about it, and managed lots of stitching the last couple of days to get it all finished - as with all Drawn Thread charts - it is so pretty, and as always a fun stitch with the different speciality stitches. I've lost the heart somewhere - it came with the kit, and having transported this one back and forth to work a few times, I think it must have slipped out somewhere - not the end of the world, but annoying!

The Drawn Thread - Linen and Lace

Stitched on Kiwi Illusions Merino, Lugana 32ct

Started end of 2006, finished February 8, 2007

Ashley's vine of roses are finished :) ... I was a good girl and stuck to my rotation on Monday and Tuesday - which also happened to be good stitching days/evenings - and I got the top part with all the roses all finished. I might just finish this in the next couple of weeks!

Mummmm - don't be so grumpy all the time ...

... and why wouldn't I be, wouldn't you be? This is a photo taken after biggest son had come home from his couple of hours at school, then left again to meet his friends - he couldn't see the problem? Ummm your bedroom is bad enough, now you're obviously undressing as you walk into it and leaving the mess as you go? This is SUCH a typical image of him at the moment, I couldn't resist taking a snap of it ;)

Today was to be my first day of everyone back at school, the younger four went back to primary school on Wednesday, today is the first whole day for David at high school. But it's not to be, tragically, two of the school's classrooms were destroyed by fire early this morning, so primary school children all have the day off. They'd just started the year to finally having most of the building and renovation work finished at the school, including the administration block all being redone - apparently that has been damaged in the fire too. I really feel for the teachers who must have had all their resources in those classrooms - you can rebuild walls, but not notes and books.

I'll go to work an hour later (I usually leave an hour before school finishes and David Jnr babysits when they all arrive home - so I need to wait until he comes home), I think I'll take the kids to the pools for an hour or two before work, it's been pretty hot here (although not so bad today), the pools should be quite empty with all the other schools open!

Needleroll SAL this weekend - as I've been looking/sorting through all my charts etc I found a Kiwi design I'd forgotten I had - Paua Shell by Cherry Parker - I've got the speciality threads I need in with the design, so I think I will stitch that. Life is unbelievably not so busy for me right now and I'm loving the extra stitching time its giving me!

Progress pictures

Our little NZ group started our SAL this month ... I *hear* that a couple of ladies just couldn't only stitch two squares and stitched 4 or 5 *gasp*! LOL Here is "Family" - the start of L*K's Blessings, and 1 and 2 of JBW's Advent Calendar. I will have to do more than 2 at some stage so that the 24 are finished by November, plus start the borders - just waiting on the money to do an order to get the extra threads I will need though! Cameron tells me that "2" is wrong, because there are three gifts ... hmmmmmm.





















Not sure whether I've actually ever taken a picture of this one - Linen and Lace by The Drawn Thread - I started it a few months back and will often pick it up and take it to work with me where I only do a little bit - but it's one of those nice all kitted up ones thats easy to grab quickly.

I'm trying to be a good girl this month and stick to my rotation so will work on a HAED today (even though I'm thinking I'd quite like to carry on with Linen and Lace) - not sure whether I'll carry on with Redwitch that I started a while back or attempt to start Faery Tales, for the third time. I'll see how I feel later. I've got a sewing project I want to try today before I sit down later with my cross stitch to watch the cricket :)

As always - thanks for looking!