New works in progress

Made a start on both new pieces. Here's what I did on Tuesday on the cross stitch, i.e. part of the tree bit in the upper centre. Doesn't look much thus far, but new cross stitches rarely look anything to shout about. It'll look much nicer once I get some more done, I'm sure.


The hardanger doily's shaping up nicely and I've got to the border part. Actually, I hate buttonhole stitch edging as it's relatively slow going and it's really hard to make my stitches as neat and even as I'd like them to be and turning corners and fastening on new threads is a bit of a pain. Thankfully, I found a good tutorial page here and printed off the relevant bits to use.

I haven't done any more on either of them since I put my needles down 2 days ago, but I think I might just have a go at putting in a stitch or two when I've finished here. But I doubt it, I'm pooped!

Rachel has been kind enough to give me one of her home grown 'Blog Inspiration' awards. She's come up with several categories and what I like about this logo in particular is that she's created it herself and the hardanger piece you see in the background is her own first forays into the world of counted thread work with a very pretty hardanger kit I look forward to seeing her complete.=) So, many thanks to you, Rachel and I'm glad to have been of use to you in getting you started in stitchery. It's not anything like as hard as it looks (as indeed most things aren't), but we Brits do tend to be scared of our own shadows and will more easily believe that we can't do something than that we just might be able to, if we can only persuade ourselves to try!