This Too Shall Pass

The message on this pinkeep is one that I have been reflecting on a lot recently (potty training 'nuff said) I stitched this last year before Christopher arrived and started the finishing last October. I finally finished last night!

This Too Shall Pass Pinkeep design by Lois Mouriski Bear of Elegant Stitch
stitched using the materials from the kit.

I stitched the Scissor pocket from the set back in 2005, I have the kit to do the matching box but on my current rate of progress with the set I wouldn't hold your breath that it gets done any time soon.

Finally....

I've not had much luck at carving out stitching time this week but what I've managed has been very productive.

First I've got the last little bit of nun stitching finished on the Red Rabbit Needlecase. I still have to finish the stitching on the smalls, scissor fob and scrimshaw keep before I can call it a finish but they shouldn't take too long.

Red Rabbit Needlecase by Forget Me Nots in Stitches
Class taken in September 2009

I have also 'finished' the first piece in my Finishing Challenge. I stitched this cute freebie back in 2003. No I don't know why it took me so long to finish either!

Groundhog Day by Bent Creek

Quality over quantity I've been telling myself but what I wouldn't give for the chance to develop a case of 'stitch ass' at the moment.

So near, yet so far

When I've had some stitching time over the last week I've been working on the finishing on another Forget Me Nots in Stitches class, this time the Red Rabbit Needlecase. I took the class back in 2009 and have been plugging away at the nun stitching on and off ever since when I've been able to plug into the zen of nun stitch. As you can see I'm within sight of the end, hopefully I can find the time in the next few days.

I've decided that this will be the first of my larger finishing projects to completed, there's a couple of smalls to go with it that I need to stitch so it's in my rotation until they're all done. Chelle asked if I had decided on which 15 projects that I wanted to finish, and I have to say that I'm not going to decide ahead of time and go with what is speaking loudly when I get the time to finish. I know that when I start digging through the piles of unfinished projects I will find some that I've forgotten about.


The big happening round here is that Christopher is now 6 months old. We celebrated by moving him into his own room, Dave and I are really enjoying the luxury of being able to read in bed again!

This photo was taken the week before Christmas.

When I posted last week I forgot about this blogs anniversary. I started the blog on New Years day 2004 and it's been quite an adventure over the last six years. Here's to the seventh year of blogging...

Happy New Year

I hope that you all had a lovely Christmas. Sorry to have been absent for so long. A combination of the Christmas holidays and a teething boy have meant that I haven't had the brain capacity for blogging or anything else if comes down to it.

So while I've not been able to stitch I've been considering what I'd like to acheive with my hobbies this year obviously starting with finding some time for them! I've been reading everyone's plans for the Crazy 15 Challenge and while it sounds very tempting I know that even attempting it would be setting myself up for failure given the uncertain nature of my stitching time. So what I have decided to do is to adapt it to address my piles of completed but 'unfinished' stitching and I am going to challenge myself to 'finish' 15 things, 12 small pieces (ornamets, pinkeeps etc) and three larger ones. I think that aiming to finish at least one small piece a month should be doable.

The other challenge I'm going to set myself this year is to read at least 36 books. I managed 24 in 2010 and as my to-read pile has been growing exponetially thanks to the 5(!) charity shops on my village Main Street. So I'd love to make myself find more time to read.

I'll finish by showing where I'm up to on Anniversary Roses

Forget Me Nots in Stitches
Anniversary Roses