As promised, I finally have a progress pic of my current project.  And I was all excited to work on it last night and get the cat part completely finished when disaster struck!  I was tightening my hoop when it suddenly stopped tightening.  Apparently the nut stripped itself on the screw!  So now I'm at my mom's with no replacement hoops and thus no hope of working on this with all my spare time.  Drat!  That'll teach me to keep a couple spare hoops on me always!  My mom has a spare, but it's one that doesn't work well for me, so I'll just have to wait to work on it until I go home tonight.  Oh, well.

Progress pic under cut.


I'm really anxious to finish it because it uses pearl blending filament which I've never used before.  It'll make the skirt and the wings nice and shiny! 

Edit: I also forgot to mention that I posted a few more works on my journal if anyone wants to come take a peek.

i bought a few little kits from hobbycraft to do at work
they were about 99p each which was cool

i have done 11 in 9 days
work has been very quite, they will be going into cards when i find the right cards

pics under cut
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I've got the bird itself done. Now I just have the branch on which it sits and the word beneath it. I'm finally learning a few tricks with the macro setting and the optical zoom on my camera.

( L'alouette )

Cross-posted (again) to waya

Hi everyone! Now that my camera is working, of course all my batteries are dead, so WIP pics of my M Designs letters are still on the way.

In the mean time, I have some questions! When I was pregnant with my son, now 21 months old, I cross stitched some things for his room, and did these ones....


Now I'm pregnant with baby number 2, I'd love to do something similar. there are more in this range that I didn't do for Roman that are sweet, as well as some Australian flora as well, but I think I might want something different. I was thinking maybe some vintage toys or something? 

The ones I like are.....


And I was thinking the beatrix Potter books, which I have in patterns, but we've put that story up in stickers around Roman's room, and I'd like to make each room different. We also don't know if we're having a boy or a girl, so unisex is good, and I don't want anything toooo babyish because it'd be nice not to have to pack them away when they're no longer babies. I'd also like something in a series so they matched somewhat. lol, demanding much?!

Any ideas?

Whoohoo, I'm finally back home and I can post some finished works.
Behind the cut are a lot of pictures, both cross stitches and other stitches since some people here told me they welcomed the inspiration of different stitches :)

( Here we go! )

Pheeeeeeew!!! That was a long one! :) More to come soon.
And now I have to check all things posted during my being away :)