I've been bad and not updated for a while, but I have been very busy.since Christmas I got half a page done on the Carosuel dancer but then came the baby mania. Two good friends have had babies and my sister has finally adopted a wonderful little 3 yo boy.
As he is big into tractors and animals I stitched this for him, one is his brith date, the other is his gotcha date! There is a big crease down the middle that doesn't look anywhere near as bad in RL!!!
Then I start this one which is a Historical Sampler Company design, the area where the flowers are is supposed to be stitched in blue for the background but I decided it would be quicker to use this lovely piece of 32 count linen I had. It's a more intense blue than in this picture.
Trouble is, I'm hating stitching it!!! I've not touched it for well over a month but have to get it done. Any suggestions??
Then I have decided to do something a little different for my other friend, and chose this lovely Pollyana Pickering design by DMC of a tiger licking her cub. I'm going to fit in date and name around it somehow. It's stitching up quickly and fun, even on the black aida.
And finally I decided to stitch a massive height chart that in two issues of Cross Stitch Gold. It's huge but easy and fun to stitch. Luckily I found a huge piece of 28 count evenweave in my stash, in fact I could have done two of these it was so big! It's lovely to stitch on but boy is it a hair magnet!!!!
I've done about a third of it now, bar the backstitch. I'm going to use tiny seed beads in place of the odd French knot. Oh and I'm going to stitch his name onto one of those self covering buttons to use as a marker, and then get some iron on name tags my sister can write the age and date on and iron onto the side of the height chart to show how he has grown (and any other kids in the future) it will be madeup as a wall hanging.
So been busy!!!
Hugs
Niki xxx
Great progress on all of them, they are adorable 
