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Love the Penguin. Just had an Oops moment and won something on Fleabay. No not another cross stitch kit :roll: This: https://i.postimg.cc/rmhBGk1T/P3171396.jpg One of the Ladies at my sewing group brought hers along on Friday and I fell in love with it. Then I spotted this one on Fleabay, bid and WO...

Finally finished the little flowers around the edge:



Hopefully finish this tomorrow

Jo

I've finished the centre section bottom: https://i.postimg.cc/ncZGmLk8/P3141394.jpg And started going round the small flowers in the border. Its not exciting, rather a stitching job to get done. Now I have a problem: the weather is improving and the garden is calling but I need to complete this piec...

That's cute. How big were you thinking of making it?

Jo

Thank you Mabel

A bit more:



That is all of the centre picture done at the top. About to finish off the bottom half (yes it is raining again ) Then it will be the corners, border and the beading left.

Jo

The Second big flower is underway:



With this flower I can get a number of stitches out of each thread colour pair rather than the odd one in the flower she is sitting.

Jo

Thank you Nicola

I've started adding the backstitching on her dress:



It feels like I have weeks more work left on this piece but the weather seems to be on my side.

Jo

I have four types of plastic bobbins and they are all different: The cheap Chinese bobbins do not hold the threads in their slots. (I have thick transparent and thinner white Chinese ones. ). The white Taiwanese bobbins do hold the threads well. All of these bobbins seem to have traces of releasing ...

I use the stickers on the disposable card bobbins and a permanent marker (Sharpie) on the plastic ones. Having treated myself to a DMC box I am now intending to use the skeins as is (pull-skeins) and wind the thread remnants on bobbins only when the skeins fall apart and threaten to loose their tabs...

Thank you :D I am fairly boring with my Pimms: 4 parts lemonade to one part Pimms. So a long drink rather than a quick means to get light headed. But I am always surprised just how quick alcohol effects me: I used to play Mario Cart on my WII and half a glass of wine would really impact my score and...

Debbie, hope today is everything you would wish for yourself.

Jo

I agree he is super cute

Jo

The leaves proved to have a number of stitches close together so that I could make a bit of progress. Then I started the flower she is sitting on :doh: https://i.postimg.cc/c46X9cpB/P2271380.jpg A couple of stitches in one colour then huge jumps to the next bit of the same colour :roll: Needless to ...

Blackface Sheep! Clearly this is a Scottish landscape

Jo

Thank you Serinde for reaching out to Lyudmila, so good to hear something from her

Jo

I decided to work down her dress:



Then got side tracked on to the leaves at the bottom as they were not as fiddly

Jo

I like that

Jo

Nice

Jo

If you recall I brought the DMC thread box and a jewellery box for my Anchor threads. I had already decided to keep all my Cross stitch needles in the top of the DMC box: https://i.postimg.cc/CLPWSD0N/P2241372.jpg In the second box I had left the top layer complete with the "ring holders" ...

Lovely