Stitch Maynia 2020

Hello!

Firstly, I hope that you are all well.

Secondly, I know, I know, I'm very very late!

But on the positive side, Maynia this year has worked out pretty well.  After a period of furlough and being at home with my little one, I discovered that while I supervised her school work, I could sit by her and stitch for a couple of hours a day!  Although I didn't make major progress on any one particular thing, I did do plenty of stitching, which was better than I expected.

So, here's a photo update:

The Big One - Moonlit Waters (Julie Fain)

Bluebell Lane (Derwentwater Designs)

Magazine stitch (can't remember which mag)

Dolphin's Domain (Dimensions)

Ugly Duckling (Dimensions)

Tea Ceremony - Snipz (Paine Free Crafts)

Hello Pumpkin (Caterpillar Cross Stitch)

from an old Cross Stitch mag

Margaret Sherry cats, from a coaster set by Heritage Stitchcraft

Cagliostro (Mr X Stitch)

I hope that those of you who also did Maynia this year enjoyed it just as much.  I look forward to catching up on all of your posts, which I should now have a little more time to do.  

Have a lovely week :)

Stitch Maynia Weeks 3-4

Ok, I haven't managed to stitch daily during the last half of May, but I switched to some of my WIPs for a nice little change, and actually had a lot of enjoyment from them. 

We also spent a couple of days away with friends during the school hols and I've been interviewing for a wonderful job, so it's been a super busy time.

Anyway, back to the stitching updates... here they are!

Bluebell Lane by Derwentwater Designs

Dolphins' Domain by Dimensions

Holodeck piece from Star Trek Cross Stitch book

Seas The Day part 4 by Caterpillar Cross Stitch

Seashore piece by Dimensions

Tea Ceremony (Snipz) (Esmira) by Paine Free Crafts

Ugly Duckling by Dimensions

A little bit here and there and I'm really happy... lots of different colours, so it's hard to be bored with these!  Hope all of you that were joining in enjoyed Stitchmaynia 2019!

Paine Free SAL Update 1

Not too much to say about this one... I am enjoying it but haven't got too far yet.

Here's the link to the chart: http://www.painefreecrafts.com/cross-stitch-charts/55-tea-ceremony-snipz-esmira.html

And here's my first update:

Tea Ceremony Update 1

Paine Free SAL

Hello all!

Well, not content with the madness that is the 10 pieces for the Turtle Trot SAL, I also decided at the last minute on the 30th Nov to join the Paine Free SAL running on this facebook group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/497318636958523/

Basically, people are stitching one of the designs from Paine Free Crafts.  I've had my eye on them for a while, but I just felt like I had too much to do already.  However, everyone's photos made me want to join in too, so with a couple of hours to go, I bought this lovely smallish chart (although I love all of the oriental designs): http://www.painefreecrafts.com/cross-stitch-charts/55-tea-ceremony-snipz-esmira.html

Here are all the colours laid out before I started:

So watch out for further updates over the next few months :)