Theme-a-licious Check In - Delightful December

Progress on my December goals has proved to be rather slow as we've all been struck by a seasonal lurgy.  It's hard to get any speed up with my needle when I had to break off every couple of stitches for a coughing fit, urgh.  Fortunately they seem to be moving out for Christmas, thank goodness!

My only definite goal for December was to start Alpine Garden by The Drawn Thread, I'm currently making slow progress on the top band but I know from stitching others from the series that it will grow quite quickly once this section is finished.

Alpine Garden by The Drawn Thread stitched 
using the recommended materials 

I've been rotating Alpine Garden with the Scottish Sampler from the Goodhart book by Needleprint as that was the wip that screamed at me loudest when I opened my stitching basket! I last worked on this back in April.  I'm hoping that I might get the border to join up soon!

Scottish Sampler 1757 charted by Erica Uten

stitched using the fabric & silks provided at Ackworth 2008

There has also been some new knitting projects cast on,  back in the summer I bought myself the wool to knit myself a Deco Cardigan by Kate Davies.  After chatting with the lovely ladies at Baa Ram Ewe I settled on Wensleydale Longwool in Aubergine.

I also cast on a new basic top down sock using some sock yarn from my stash, the ball had lost it's label (thanks kids!) so I don't remember what it is.