March craziness and a new obsession

Well March is now winding down on us. Can someone please tell me where this year is going?? I feel like we just had Christmas *sigh*

So what have I been working on? Not much stitching, although I have a little progress on Mothers Bliss

But for the last week and a half I have been knitting. I haven't knit for a long time and it will never take over my love for stitching but my daughter was asking for something for her hands at school when winter gets here in June and so I thought that I could make her some. 

Now even I know I'm not to that standard yet, all I've done is garter stitched some scarves and baby blankets and that was forever ago. So I jumped on ravelry, the knitting/crocheting social site and decided to start off with a blanket that is safe to tuck into a baby/toddler car seat as my kids love blankets in the car but when my youngest daughter who is 2 drops hers of course she can't grab it again. I'd never heard of these blankets before with the hole for the buckel and I wish I had 7 years ago haha.

So I started knitting 

And it was to be 24 inches long finished. Well I got it to 21 inches yesterday and this morning my eldest bought it to me and said ' I just saw this 

One very broken needle *sigh* so I have to buy a new set of 6mms. So close and yet so far. But I hope to teach myself to shape and everything slowly so that I can finally make the children what they need. It gets nowhere as cold here as a lot of places, the coldest morning I've ever seen is -7C/19F so quite balmy for a lot of you but still cold and of course we feel it. 

So that's my crafting adventures the last 2 weeks. I hope your crafting is going well and I will be back with more soon

Happy Stitching :)

Mothers Bliss Progress

This month I have been stitching like absolute crazy on Mothers Bliss

Her top half is almost done except for some back stitching. I'm working on the baby and then will go to her skirt

Progress over a month

Well what have I been up to? 

I put a few measly stitches in QS Love Is brilliant

I stitched like crazy for a week on Lady in the Mist

And I leisured my weekends away stitching on Hang In There, to finally reveal a kitty butt ;)

 Now for another week on Mothers Bliss! Can't wait. 

Happy Stitching! 

Mothers Bliss

This week I've worked completely on Mothers Bliss

I absolutely love working on this peice so I have to decide whether to stick to my news year rotation or keep working on it. 

Happy Stitching! 

New start #3 and a little progress

Not much stitching done this week but I did receive a little kit from my mum for Christmas

And I've made a little progress on Mothers Bliss

Happy Stitching! 

New year! New starts!

Happy New Year! 

I'm hoping this year will be better stitching wise for me. 

As the new year rolled in, I was setting up my 2 new starts, making up a new rotation, and sorting out my WIPs. 

So what did I stitch on? 

These are the start of 2 stitch alongs I'm part of. I'm so excited to see them come together. Along with my other WIPs I've carried over from last year. 

Happy Stitching in 2015!!

I promise

That my posts will get a lot more exciting come January :)

 I am joining in a New Year/New Start SAL and a Miribilia SAL and my piece for the first is also Miribilia. So I'll have 2 mirabilias, my 4 HAEDs and my Historical Queenslander in rotation at that point as well as finishing off my 2 secret stitching projects :) 2015 is going to be an exciting year! 

I also have a whole heap of small pieces in mind to do and maybe at some point I will do 2 bigger projects from Colour Cascade here in Australia for my kids. Soooo much stitching to be done, so little time. 

But here's my progress on Historical Queenslander

Happy Stitching!!

Slowly...

On Historical Queenslander. The roof is continuing to be a frog attractor

Otherwise I've almost finished my secret stitch #2 :)

Happy Stitching!!

Stitching in Secret

Is mostly what I've been doing this week. My secret stitch number 2 has been demanding a lot of my attention so there's not as much done on Historical Queenslander. 

Happy Stitching!!

Confetti Crazy Roof!

On Historical Queenslander. It's slowing progress

But there it is for another week. 

Happy Stitching! 

Progress

Historical Queenslander this week :)

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A finish!!!

Just a little finish, my aunty bought me the September edition of CrossStitch Crazy for my birthday and it came with this free kit so of course I had to put everything down and do it. I started it on Saturday (20th) and finished it today (22nd) :)

 And also I thought I'd show, most of my stitching has been on my second secret stitch :) 

Happy Stitching!!

Just a quick update

Of Historical Queenslander 

Mostly garden progress this time :)

Happy Stitching! 

Historical Queenslander Progress

Well here we are in September already. Plenty of stitching has been done but 1 in    particular I wanted to share with you. I've been stitching on Historical Queenslander for an hour a day to have something to show while I stitch on the others and here it is now...

Happy Stitching! 

Stitching and Hiatus

I kind of took almost a 2 week hiatus from stitching, hence my lack of news, but I picked up the needle again today. 

I hit a snag on 1 of my secret stitches, with the pattern, do my rotation will change until I can get another sent. 

secret stitch #2,

And I've decided to get Historical Queenslander from the WIP pile for now, for just an hour each day so I have something to show off in it's entirety :)

So today....

Horribly crumpled but happy peice. 

So hopefully I've enticed my stitching bug again for a while. 

Happy Stitching! 

Secret stitching

Well I've been busy in the last week. 2 more pieces turned up in the mail. My second secret stitch and another for my stash :)

I did more progress on my first S.S.

 And started the second

I'll keep working on them and try to make a little progress on 1 of my other WIPs to have something to show :)

The other paternI got and kitted up I've had my eye on for quite a while. I'm not sure what I'll do with it yet, I'll probably stitch it up and put it away with no names or dates yet. 

I have more stash mail on the way which is exciting. 1 more gift/secret stitch and 2 just for me. 

But that all for now, I hope you're all getting plenty of stitching time and keeping the frog at bay 

Happy Stitching! 

What have I been up to?

Good Question! 

The first of my gift/secret stitches turned up and I've made a start on it. I'm waiting for the next 2. So there's not much I can actually show unfortunatly. I'm loving the bright colors in the piece and hope to get 2 done by Christmas. Next year will also be full of secret stitching. I have 6 at least in the wings at the moment. 

Happy Stitching!!

'The General' update

Well I've worked on this piece for a month now whenever I got a chance to stitch. 

2 weeks ago:

And Now:

I think I'll choose another to work on for a while now. Even though it's so close to a page finish. 

I also have some secret stitches coming up so there won't be so many photos until they are gifted but I'll certainly keep tracks of stitch numbers for updates and do a little on some I can show :)

Happy Stitching! 

Framed!!!!!!

Today I picked up the first pieces I've ever had framed :)

Sorry about the glare lol. 

Tis the Season by Janlynn

Fabric: Aida

Threads: Supplied in Kit

Started: About the 21st of August 2011

Finished: 24th of October 2011

Source: Freepatterns.com

Fabric: Aida

Threads as recommended

Started: 3rd of October 2011

Finished: 10th of October 2011

Source: www.cross-stitchers-club.con

Fabric: Aida

Threads as recommended

Started: 2011

Finished: Dec 2013

Source: Lanarte

Fabric: Aida

Threads as recommended, as in the kit

Started: 2011

Finished: around the 20th of March 2011

Now all 4 are hanging proudly. 1 day I'll have enough to swap out the Christmas 1st but for now they will stay up :)

Happy Stitching!!

'The General' update

I've worked hard on The General this week. Progress is awful slow on these peices but here it is :)

Where I was:

And now:

Happy Stitching!