And therefore a round up of the wips that a currently sitting out there that may need daylight to help me out (because try as you might, daylight simulation bulbs are never the same really are they?)

Anyway, I’ve been dabbling recently with the Anchor kit for “Queen Nefertiti”, and not done too badly, but gotten a bit bored. Searching through my WIPs it seems I got a little bit further with the equivalent for “King Tut” before abandoning, so I’ll have to finish that at some point.

I did a status review of “The quiltmaker“(lots of dark blue, and black, and in looking only to remember why I hadn’t completed it…..quick drop into www.sewandso.co.uk to order some DMC (cos the local shops dont stock), and onto the next pattern.

Celtic Christmas is almost done, but still needs some work, especially around the beading.

Have decided to work on the Mary Hickmott pattern “Pride of the peacocks” which is coming along nicely.  Somewhere (I dont know where!) is the “Beautiful Balloons” which is nearly done too.  Is that not enough?

well I’ve just looked at the date, and it seems I’ve not been posting here a lot since the new year. Other things have been occupying my time that has meant that I have had little interest or energy in sewing, photography, cooking or blogging! In fact I seem to have spent the last 3 weeks surviving on adrenalin and sugar, and all else has suffered. Hopefully things will have turned the corner and will change.

The dark nights have prevented me from doing much photography, but I have tried to keep my hand in on my cross stitch. I spent several weeks working on Lavender & Laces’s “Celtic Christmas”, then got bogged down in doing the beading, so left that to one side. I’ve gone back to L&L’s “The Quiltmaker” which seems to be coming along quite nicely but I have the sneaking suspicion that I left it down before for a reason (I usually leave WIPs because I’ve stitched something wrong), and I’m going to put in a lot more energy and find I’m going to have to unstitch a large swatch of effort.

I still have “Beautiful Balloons” as an item to finish, but that’s on the back burner for the momen.

I did finish off a quick item off “Tantes Zolder, which gave me a break from working on one of the bigger projects. I must get around to making these items up, I just dont want to get the sewing machine out for just one or two small items. I have plenty of Lavender that will be good for lavender bags, and I also have some Rosemary, which should also be good for lining linen closets with to fragrance my bedlinen with

Doing some tidying today and I decided to approach the stash pile that’s beside my chair in the sitting room – it’s far too full of stuff and some of the stuff needed to be put away in other places.

I have recently been a bit bored with doing “Beautiful Balloons“, so started working on the Lavender and Lace pattern “Celtic Christmas“. What I’d forgotten – and only realised when I tidied up – was that I had already started “The Quiltmaker” and had actually progressed quite far. I have no idea why I stopped! I cant remember whether it was because I wanted to work on something else, or I had done such a FUBAR that I’d hidden it in the corner, never to see the light of day again!

Anyway, I’m going to stay with my parents for a few days over Christmas, and will be taking “Celtic Christmas” with me. Once back, I’ll probably take a look at “The Quiltmaker” to see if I can see if I went wrong anywhere