WIPocalypse check in for February

Hello everyone, it’s time for the ‘Leap Day’ WIPocalypse check-in, when we post how much progress we have made on the WIPs we want to complete before the end of the world!

This month I have three small finishes, some progress on a larger WIP and a new start.

The three small finishes are:
1. Butterfly necklace (cover kit)

I’m wearing it here, but I’m pretty sure Lucy thinks it is hers...

2. Hetty hedgehog - another cover kit!

This one is really Lucy’s and after being played with for a while I’m pretty sure her bead nose is going to fall off so I’ll need to find a better way to secure it. She was originally meant as a pin cushion but I don’t really need any more pin cushions anyway.

3. Flowery heart card. Guess what, this was also a cover kit, but it think a very pretty one. I finished it off as designed as a birthday card for my friend.

The larger project I have been working on is Canadian Beauty by Joan Elliott. Here’s where I left her back in 2016 before Lucy was born:

 And here’s where I’m up to now:

I’m very happy that I’ve actually made visible progress on her and I’m looking forward to stitching on her again.

The final project is a new start made at Lucy’s request. It is a Pooh bear kit which I’ve had in my stash for years. She has suddenly become obsessed with Pooh (largely because she can run around shouting Pooh very loudly in public, but that’s three year olds for you). I’m sometimes allowed to work on Pooh while she is awake, and she has actually helped to work on him a couple of times pulling and pushing the needle up and down for me. Perhaps I might be able to teach her to stitch sooner than I thought!

Finally, this month’s question is about a time you had to make a ‘Leap’ in stitching. I’m finding it hard to think of anything particularly impressive, but a few years ago I did go through a real burst and started trying out lots of different projects like starting my Chatelaine and a Heaven and Earth designs piece. It was a lot of fun trying different ways of stitching. I didn’t finish either of those but I hope to someday. I think Chatelaines are more enjoyable for me than HAED as I like having a variety of stitches. I would like my next leaps to be designing my own projects, and also maybe starting a Teresa Wentzler design. I’m sure I had kitted up Egyptian sampler back in 2016 but I never did get to it. 

Secret Stitching Sweetheart

For the first time, I am participating in the Secret Stitching Sweetheart blog hop, organised by Jo at Serendipitous Stitching!

I received this beautiful picture:

I love the ornament design and the finishing, the fabric is just perfect. And what a wonderful way to stage the photo too! Thank you very much to whoever stitched this, I feel too new at this to try and guess who you are though, but I look forward to finding out. Many thanks to Jo as well, for hosting this lovely blog hop.

February Fully Finished Gallery

It’s the 10th of the month, so it’s time to post fully finished objects. Very timely as I just managed to get these finished this past weekend!

First is the full set of Winter Woodland Animal Ornaments:

They are from an old cross stitcher cover kit, but it only had fabric for two so I used some of my own for the other three. I want to display them now as I say they are winter ornaments rather than Christmas but I haven’t found a good place to hang them yet. Lucy had a go, but I’m not sure these are good permanent homes!

Next is another cover kit, a little owl. He is now called ‘Owly’ and he belongs to Lucy:

That’s it for this month. Hopefully by next month I will have Lucy’s calendar done as I have been making progress on that too.