Dear all, yes, I have been missing in action for a while. Apologies for the delay in coming back to you.
There have been work related things, family related things and of course it's that time of the year when the Black Dog starts to make itself known more frequently. So basically I have just battened down the hatches and waited it out until I felt sociable again.
However there has been progress during my absence.
Stitching wise, I have been concentrating on Crypt Club because Mum's birthday is less than a month away. The chart is on two pages and what you see is mainly the bottom page. I have a little back stitching left to do and there should be a martini glass on the table. Mum doesn't drink martini, but a cup of tea might look odd - still thinking about this. There is less to do on the top page, so fingers crossed I get it done in time.
I am still pottering on with Hitchhiker, which should properly be called Hitchhiker Plus now. I have now done 49 points and I still have yarn in hand. Point 50 will take me past the 200 stitches per row mark. I really must get this finished before the end of the year, particularly as I bought the pattern last New Year's Eve.
This is a semi-unplanned new start - cabled handwarmers for Mum. When I say semi-unplanned, what I mean is that I meant to do them, just not yet. However I went to Knit Group yesterday, talked about doing them, then came home and cast on. It is the same pattern as the cabled handwarmers that I knitted for myself (which are being really useful now), but in superwash merino DK dyed in the "Twilight" colour way by Truly Hooked. I bought this at the Bakewell Wool Gathering last Saturday specifically for this project - it is black, white and purple, and feels very nice! The intention is to get them done for her birthday if at all possible.
Progress on my Vanilla Latte socks remains slow, mainly due to the deadlines on other things. Once Mum's birthday is out of the way, I will have more time for them.
Finally, a stash update for Leonore. On the left, a skein of Colinette Calligraphy in the Aegean colour way, a bulky yarn, and a birthday present from Deb in my Saturday Knit Group. Next come Opal sock yarn in the Secret Agent colour way from Wool Zone in Oakham, a present to myself on the way home from a job interview (didn't get the job). At the top, a Crazy Zauberball in the "Der Lenz ist da!" colour way also from Wool Zone on the same occasion. Below that is a ball of Juniper Moon Farm Findlay Dappled laceweight in the Macaw colour way which I picked up at the Bakewell Wool Gathering. And on the right, also bought at Bakewell, is a skein of Natural Born Dyers Cobweb Lace in the Bluebottle colour way - 1200m of 50% alpaca, 30% merino and 20% silk - which will eventually become a shawl of some description.
Too many pretty things and not enough time!!
Hoping that all is well with you and yours. May the frog stay well away from your needles, and I will try to post more regularly from now on.
How is it possible that it is very nearly September already? The year seems to have flown past, and I had hoped to have accomplished more by now.
However I went to Knit Group yesterday and I do have two finishes to show you today, so I am very pleased with myself.
These are my Cabled Handwarmers which have been waiting to be finish finished since the middle of April. They are a Pat Strong pattern from Issue 38 of Knit Now, knit in King Cole Baby Alpaca in the Heather colourway (666). They are knit flat and then seamed on the thumb side. And they feel just gorgeous when I put them on.
Finish No. 2 is my Toe Up Socks knit in hand dyed yarn by Jellybeans Yarns in their Autumn Leaves colourway. There is a mixture of techniques here. All of the first sock and the foot and heel of the second sock were knit with Magic Loop. The leg and cuff of the second sock were knit on dpns. The heel of the first sock was knit using wrap and turn short rows, while the heel of the second sock was knit using German short rows. Neither technique was very successful, so I had to darn the resulting holes on completion. Both socks used the Turkish cast-on and Jeny's surprisingly stretchy bind-off. So I learned a lot and have a very colourful pair of socks to show for it.
Moving on to work in progress, the first section of the bottom border of Baby Express is now complete. There is a tiny speck of light at the end of the tunnel on this piece.
And last but not least, here is Hitchhiker. There are now 38 completed points on this shawlette but still plenty of yarn left on the ball. Progress gets slower with every point as there are now over 150 stitches per row, but I am looking forward to wearing it this winter.
In other news, I have a week off work! Tomorrow is a bank holiday, but I have the rest of the week off to do what I want to do. I have some plans in place - a day out with my nieces, a theatre trip with my Mum - but also some time for me, myself and I. More information in my next post :-)
All the best to you and yours, and may the frog stay away from your needles.
Apologies for the lack of posts the past couple of weeks. The mojo has been somewhat lacking for various reasons.
I went for a job interview, but didn't get the job - although the feedback was positive and helpful. And thank you to anyone who had their fingers crossed for me - apparently all the candidates were good and it was very close.
I went to the physio, who said that, because I am very flexible in my lower back, my bottom muscles aren't pulling their weight and so the muscles in my thigh have been overworked. I am now rolling out of bed every morning (except Sunday, my day of rest) and doing exercises before I do anything else. I hope that progress has been made, but have another couple of weeks before I go back to the physio.
In other news, there has been progress on the knitting and stitching fronts.
As you can see, the left hand border on Baby Express is now complete and progress has begun on the bottom border. At the current rate of progress, I might even get it finished before his first birthday :-)
I have finally got round to blocking my Cabled Handwarmers. The plan is to take them to Knit Group on Saturday, stitch them up and finally have them finished well in advance of the cold weather.
The second toe-up sock is nearly done. Since this photo, I have finished the leg and started the ribbing for the cuff. I am hoping that in my next post I will be able to show you a finished pair of socks!
And I am still trundling on with Hitchhiker. The photo shows points 1 to 36, and I have done point 37 since then. However there is still a lot of yarn left, so I am not proposing to forecast a potential finish date just yet.
There is not really anything else to report at present, so I will love you and leave you, and may the frog stay well away from your needles.
Sun, rain, sun, rain, wind - especially wind (and rain) today! It really has been a trifle up and down this week. And tomorrow? Who knows? I'm hoping for decent weather this week because my car is in the garage waiting for a part to be fixed down in London. It went in on Wednesday morning, so there has been a lot of walking going on the back end of the week, and more to come this week. If anyone else says that exercise is good for you, they are going to get a punch on the nose. It just makes me tired and grumpy, and also makes my nose run.
However, despite the changeable weather, I do have progress to report.
Yesterday morning I cast off my Cabled Handwarmers, so now they need blocking and sewing up. A close look will show you that somehow there is 1cm difference between the bottom rib sections on the two pieces. I am not quite sure how this happened, but am hoping that no-one will notice when I'm wearing them. I'm not calling this a finish until I can actually put them on.
Moving on to Baby Express, I have completed the whole of the next border section. The intention for this coming week is to stitch the sun in this top right hand corner.
On Hermione's Socks, I've turned the heel, picked up and knitted the gusset and also knitted most of the foot. I just need to compare it against one of my other hand knit socks to decide if I am ready to do the toe decreases. It would be nice to get this sock completed this week.
And finally a new start! Youngest niece will be 7 in June so I am knitting her a set of headbands in her favourite colours of lilac and violet. This is supposed to be violet but the colour hasn't photographed well. I'm knitting them in 100% cotton on 3.5 inch needles. So this is the first couple of inches of the first headband.
In other news I went to Slimming World yesterday for the first time in 3 weeks. Those 3 weeks include going on conference ("No calories on conference!") and family Easter Sunday lunch. So the fact that I put on 0.5lb in that time is absolutely fine by me - I'm up to 11 stone 8lb, but still within my target limits.
All the best to you and yours, and may the frog stay well away from your needles.
I didn't post last week because I had been away on a family history conference and the do on Saturday night coincided with the clocks changing, so what is normally a very late night became a very early morning. By the time I got home again and got caught up with myself, I thought I might as well leave posting until this week because the conference week didn't produce much in the way of progress. And yesterday was Easter Sunday, which meant a family get-together and late coming home, so here I am today.
This is what I have achieved over the last two weeks on Baby Express. I have stitched the relevant section of the train tracks, but not back stitched them. I have also done most of the last section of border, but need to fill in the white dots with a pale blue thread. Baby will be two months old next week so I really need to crack on with this.
This picture shows that I am working on the heel flap of Hermione's Everyday Socks. I'm reasonably convinced that I have made a mistake and done the heel flap the wrong side out, but never mind - let's call it a design feature. I have actually done a lot more work on this sock today, but you will have to wait to see that.
And finally the Cabled Hand Warmers have made an appearance. Since I got back from conference, I have done about four cable repeats on this piece. I do need to measure it again, but I think that I am not far off finishing the cabled section. I'll look good wearing alpaca hand warmers in the middle of summer :-)
In other news, I haven't been to Slimming World for two weeks. Whether I get there this week will depend on the car situation as it needs some more work doing on it.
Back to work tomorrow, so here's all the best to you and yours and may the frog steer well clear of your needles.
So February is over. I'm reasonably glad to see the back of it - it was far too cold and damp for my liking. However there have been some signs of Spring - crocuses and snowdrops in the gardens - daffodils in the shops. So now I'm looking forward to March.
Progress has been varied this last week, so I'll start with the most progress and work down to the least.
Beginning with the Panda Hat, the basic hat itself is finished - it just needs the back seam sewing up and blocking. The two black pieces are its ears, which need blocking, oversewing round the edges and attaching to the hat. Still to do are the two eyes, which will also need blocking and attaching to the hat before I embroider the pupils on. However I do have another week in which to get this done, so fingers crossed.
Moving on to Baby Express, I have completed the stitching on the second carriage and started the back stitching. I am unsure whether the black and white creature is a zebra or a cow - what are your thoughts? The next stage is to finish the back stitch on this section and then stitch the right hand border.
I did manage to get one more cable repeat knitted on my handwarmers, but at the moment it looks like they won't be completed before the weather changes for the better. However, if I can get at least one repeat done a week, they will eventually reach the finishing line.
And finally a new start! My fingers were getting all twitchy because I had no socks on the go. So, having finally managed to ball up the yarn I wanted to use, today I cast on for "Hermione's Everyday Socks" by Erica Lueder. The yarn is "Clovelly" in The Natural Dye Studio's Godiva HT 4 Ply/Sock (100% single spun merino). It feels absolutely lovely!
In other news, I had a day off on Friday to have my new toilet fitted. The porcelain on the old one was disintegrating and my plumber said that he had never seen anything like that before. The replacement only took about 3 hours and I had the rest of the day to myself. The only drawback was that the car had had to go into the garage to have a flashing dashboard light investigated (no definite conclusion reached - just have to wait and see what happens), so I just pottered about at home, knitting and stitching. At least I didn't have to go to work :-)
I didn't get weighed on Thursday, partly due to the car issue and partly because I had to go to a meeting that evening, so I don't know whether I made any progress in that area or not.
I have a busy week ahead of me, so will finish now and wish you and yours all the best and may the frog steer well clear of your needles.
Saturday was Valentine's Day, Sunday was my parents' wedding anniversary and today is the day my cousin gave birth to a little boy! So I'm wishing you a very Happy Day on whatever day you are reading this.
So WIP pictures - some with more progress, some with less.
This is a brand new start. Mum rang me just before lunch to tell me that our new baby had arrived. So as soon as I got home, I cast on and had bootie No. 1 finished by 7pm, just in time for tea. The plan is to mail out two booties and two mittens on Saturday. Last week was a busy week, but this week should be a quiet week. Should be possible, fingers crossed.
As last week was a busy week, I didn't get as much done on Baby Express as I would have liked, but now that its owner has finally arrived, I will be cracking on with this as soon as his knits are finished. I can say that the far right hand side is in fact the inside of the border round the edge of this piece. So at least now I know how much space I have to play with on this side.
Again, not as much progress as I would have liked, but I am now into the cable section of this second hand warmer. This will have to go on hold this week in order to knit baby things, but I don't see an end to the wintry weather just yet so I still might get some use out of them before the warm weather turns up.
Finally, another new start, which I began at Knit Group on Saturday! However this will have to be ripped out and restarted. Firstly the little girl whose head this Panda Hat is meant to fit turns out to have a bigger head than anticipated. Secondly, I hate the needles with a passion. I bought them at the same time as I bought the yarn for this hat because I didn't have the right size, but they are plastic (all there was) and I am having to fight them for every stitch. So I have ordered some KnitPro Nova straights and will frog this piece and start again as soon as they arrive.
In other news, I have put on 0.5lb this week, but to be honest, I'm not that bothered. The weather is so cold, damp and dreary that there has been a smidgen too much chocolate in my diet this last week. Never mind, maybe the sun will come back out soon.
Wishing you and yours all the very best, and may the frog stay away from your needles.
Dear Reader, I will be brutally honest with you - I am fed up to the back teeth with this brass monkey weather that we have been subjected to for the past several weeks! I want not to have to scrape my car every morning, I want not to have to make a hot water bottle every night, I want not to have to sit here typing wrapped up like an Eskimo and wearing fingerless gloves. I want the sun to come back and to just be able to put one layer on to walk out the door, instead of three!
Anyway, enough whinging! I have progress to report.
My second pair of hand-knitted socks is now finished. I completed the toe decreases last night whilst babysitting and then grafted the toe this morning. Once again they are not perfect, but I am looking forward to wearing them.
I won't be casting on any new projects just yet. We are expecting an addition to the extended family any day now and as it is going to be a surprise, I am waiting to hear before I cast on yellow or pale blue baby knits.
In the meantime, I did cast on my second cabled hand-warmer this week and have completed the ribbing section and the set-up rows for the cabling. This will be my on-going knitting project until such time as we hear from Wales about the new baby.
Still on the baby front, I have completed the back stitching on the centre section of Baby Express and moved on to the next section of stitching. Cold fingers and stiff fabric are not helping progress on this piece.
Measi's question for this month's WIPocalypse post relates to how one manages when you get stuck in a rut with a project. I find this a bit difficult to answer because the projects that I get racked off with most tend to be the ones where I am working to a deadline. I get to a point where I have to put everything else on one side and just stitch/knit on the deadline piece in order to get it done in time. But part of that will be because I'm a dreadful procrastinator - if I used every spare scrap of time, projects would get done a lot faster, but I don't. Like this evening, I would have been on-line about an hour earlier had I not borrowed some books from my Mum and been reading those instead of writing this post. Sorry, not very helpful.
In other news, I made a flying visit to Slimming World this week and was delighted to discover that I had lost another 1.5lb and was back down to my target weight of 11 stone 7lb. So that was 3lb off in two weeks and I reckon it was down to changing what I eat for lunch at work. Now I just have to maintain myself at this weight - easier said than done.
Its getting late so I will leave you now with best wishes to you and yours, and may the frog stay well away from your needles.
In the words of the song, "Baby, it's cold outside!" The snow that we had a few days ago has gone but the temperature round here is through the floor. I know we don't get it as wintry as other places, being an island, but we also don't deal with it as well. I tell you, my bed is like the Princess and the Pea in reverse - I don't have thirty mattresses under me, but I do have two duvets, four patchwork quilts, my Girl Guide camp blanket and a couple of fleece blankets on top. I also take a hot water bottle to bed with me nights and even then sometimes I wake up chilly. I'm what people round here call "nesh" - it means I feel the cold more than most.
As a result of the ensuing cold hands, I have made more progress on some things than others.
I managed to finish the cross stitching on this section of Baby Express, but didn't get very far with the back stitch. The aida is so stiff that it is difficult to get the needle through when your fingers are cold. Hopefully this coming week I will be able to finish back stitching this section.
I did however manage to finish knitting the first cabled hand warmer. I cast off at Knit Group yesterday, so now need to cast on for the second one. I hope to get that well started this week.
And I made good progress on my second sock. I finished the leg, knitted the heel flap, turned the heel, picked up for the gusset, knitted my decreases and started knitting the foot. I even knitted on it at Slimming World this week. If I could get it finished this week, that would be very nice.
On the Slimming World front, I managed to lose 1.5lb this week, bringing me back down to 11 stone 8.5lb, which made me very happy.
Anyway, I had an early start this morning and I'm feeling tired, so I'm going to love you and leave you, with all the best to you and yours, and may the frog stay away from your needles.
I am so looking forward to seeing the back of January. It has been cold and dark and miserable - a month with few, if any, positive points in itself. February will bring half-term, Valentine's Day and a new baby into the family - little bubbles of happiness as the sun comes back to us.
Last week was a busy week in the outside world so a tad slow on the creative front, but I do have some nice progress to show you.
Baby Express now includes an elephant in a blue and green bonnet. The plan for the coming week is to finish the roof of the carriage - there is a little cupola on top - and then to back stitch as much as is possible, before moving on to the next section.
On Second Socks, I have reached the bottom of the leg, so the plan for this week is to knit the heel flap and turn the heel. If I can get started on the foot, that will be a plus.
The Cabled Handwarmers have made least progress this week. I still have a couple more cable repeats to do before I can knit the last section of ribbing. I am still waiting to hear from the wool shop about the extra yarn I need, but I can't currently locate an email address and the mobile number on the website goes through to voicemail.
In other news, I was rather disappointed this week because I didn't lose any weight. I didn't put any on either, but having turned down all sorts of goodies and tried to be really good, it was somewhat annoying to find that I had maintained - so still 11 stone 10lb.
Next time I post, it will be a new month so here's all the best to you and yours for the last few days of January, and may the frog stay well clear of your needles.
Well, after a week of steady improvement I am now at the slightly snuffly stage, and generally feeling much better. As a result, I do have a decent amount to show you this week.
I'm pleased to say that I have made good progress with Baby Express this week. That is supposed to be a lion wearing a yellow spotted green bib. I am hoping that the backstitch will perform wonders in due course.
Progress on the cabled hand warmer has been slower, mainly because I don't take it out with me. However, about 4 more repeats of the cable pattern and a little more ribbing should see this one complete. The question then will be whether I have enough yarn for the second one. The shop I bought it at is supposed to be ordering some more in, but I am still waiting to hear from them.
However I am delighted to be able to show you my socks. I finished the first one on Thursday night and cast on the second one after work on Friday. It was Knitting Club on Saturday so I spent a very enjoyable few hours knitting and chatting with like minded people.
In other news, I went to get weighed on Thursday night and discovered that having a streaming cold had caused me to put on 2lb. I couldn't face cooking so just ate what was easiest i.e. takeaway etc. So I really need to lose weight this week as I am just on my limit before I have to start paying again.
It's getting late now and they've threatened us with a very cold night, so I am going to call it a day, fill a hot water bottle and turn in. So, all the best to you and yours, and may the frog stay well clear of your needles.
Thanks to a number of my amiable colleagues who do not believe in taking sick leave even when it is patently obvious to all around them that they are plague carriers who should be cast into the outer darkness, I lost a whole weekend of stitching and knitting and consequently do not have as much to show you as I had hoped!
I did however manage to make a little progress before I was struck down with the dreaded lurgy.
This is a new cross stitch start - a kit from Dimensions called "Baby Express". Completing this for my cousin's baby due next month is my first goal for 2015. I am stitching it on the rather stiff 14 count aida from the kit with the threads supplied.
I had hoped to be further on with this sock by now. My intention was to have finished this and cast on the second sock before Knit Group this coming Saturday afternoon. It may still be possible - it just depends on how the rest of the week goes.
Neither have I made as much progress with my cabled hand-warmer as I had intended. Each repeat of the cable pattern currently takes me about half an hour, so losing a whole weekend was not helpful.
On a brighter note, I went to Slimming World for the first time since before Christmas and found that I had lost 1lb, so am back down to 11 stone 8lb.
I will finish here as I still feel a bit under the weather and will hope to be able to post at my usual time on Sunday.
All the best to you and yours, and may the frog stay well away from your needles.
I know it's a day early, but I do feel that that is slightly better than about a week late, which is the alternative option :-)
So here we are in 2015 - I'm still not quite sure what happened to 2014, but it's too late to worry about that.
I'll start with the finishes that I couldn't show you last week because I didn't have photos, then my works in progress and then go on to my goals for the coming year.
Here are the Christmas ornaments that I made for my nieces. As usual, the finishing was a last minute rush and is not very good. However they loved them, which is all that matters.
And here is Breeze (I can't work out how to pixellate bits of my photos so have just used the erasing tool). My friend is wearing it as a neckerchief rather than a headscarf, but so what? She likes it, and her sister tried to steal it off her, which I think is a good sign.
On to works in progress. Having finally decided which is the right side and which the wrong side of the ribbed section, I have now started the cabled section of these handwamers. There is a way to go yet, but I'm looking forward to the finished item.
And then we have a sock - very good progress on this over the last week. The leg is finished, and I have turned the heel and picked up the stitches for the gusset.
So what do I have in mind for 2015? Well, the list contains some projects for me and some for other people. Let's take it from the top!
1) Start and complete a birth sampler for my cousin's baby due on 13 February - I have the kit for this and have photocopied the chart - just need to get started.
2) Knit something for my cousin's baby - could be more booties and mittens, could be something else - we don't know whether its a little girl or a little boy yet.
3) Finish Guardian Angels for Mum's 70th on 18 November - this includes metallic threads and beading.
4) Start and complete Crypt Club for Mum's 70th - this is for the Patchwork Group joint gift - I have the chart but need to sort out fabric and threads.
5) Complete the cabled handwarmers.
6) Complete the current pair of socks and knit x many more pairs in 2015.
7) Complete the current pages of Train of Dreams - this is a carry over from 2014.
8) Start first sweater - I have a couple of possible patterns for this.
9) Start and complete Christmas stocking ornament for my cousin's baby - the design will depend on the gender of the baby.
10) Knit or stitch Christmas ornaments for my two nieces.
11) Start Hitchhiker shawl - I have the pattern and the yarn so it will be finding the time.
I may have bitten off more than I can chew here, but I'm aiming for the stars and leaving myself plenty of room to fall.
What are your stitching and knitting plans for the New Year?
Wishing you and yours a happy, healthy and prosperous 2015, and may the frog steer well clear of your needles.
"The time has come" the Walrus said "to speak of many things ..."
2014 will come to a close in two days time and so I felt this was a good opportunity to take a look back at the goals I set myself at the beginning of the year and see what I achieved and what remains on the To Do list. Apologies in advance - this is going to be very picture heavy.
The first goal was to start and complete a wedding present for one of my oldest friends. This piece was all ready to be framed when the wedding was called off two weeks beforehand. So I am counting this as a completed goal.
The second goal was to complete "April" by the second Thursday in August to hand over to V for her 70th birthday. This goal was also completed and I received a very nice thank you card from V afterwards.
Goal 3 was to start and complete "Corgi" by the second Thursday in September to hand over to I for her 80th birthday. This was a great success and she loved it. Major tick in the box!
My fourth goal was to complete "Guardian Angels" for my Mum by Christmas at the latest. This was an abject fail as I have not worked on this piece since about April. I will be carrying this one over into 2015.
Goal No. 5 was to complete at least one page on "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" and I am delighted to say that the last stitches were put into page 5 on 27 December 2014. So a happy dance for the end of the year! This piece is now going on hold for the time being.
My sixth goal was to complete the pages that I was stitching on "Train of Dreams". This was also an abject failure and will be carried over into 2015.
My final goal for 2014 was to stitch my annual Christmas ornaments for my two nieces. This goal was completed, but as I did the finishing on Christmas Eve at my parents' house and without my camera, I don't have a photo to show you yet. As soon as I can get one, I will put it in.
So 5 goals completed out of 7 - relatively good going, I think. However there were also the other achievements that weren't on the list of goals for 2014.
At the beginning of May, I learned to knit again, having knit briefly in my early teens. The results of this are as follows:
My scarf, known as "Learning Curve" which is made up of sections in 13 different stitch patterns.
Three sets of baby booties and mittens - two in yellow and one in blue - one for a work colleague, one for a former work colleague and one for my sister's work colleague. The set shown here were my first knitting finish after I started knitting again.
My first pair of hand knitted socks, courtesy of my sister and brother in law who gave me a sock knitting workshop as an early birthday present. They aren't perfect, but they fit and I have felt so chuffed with myself every time I put them on.
"Breeze", a lace edged headscarf knitted as a Christmas present for my oldest friend. In the beginning, there was much frogging and language, but eventually I got the hang of it and am very pleased with it. I'm hoping to get a picture of it in use to show you.
And finally I hit target at Slimming World - I won't say that I am currently right at target (blame it on Christmas), but I did get there!
So that is my goals for 2014 covered and the extras that came along during the year. What next?
Well, first comes Christmas. This is the crazy patchwork lap quilt that my Mum gave me for snuggling up under when I'm knitting or stitching on the sofa. My parents also gave me two pairs of sock blockers for drying my hand knitted socks on. My sister and brother in law gave me another workshop - this time to learn how to knit socks from the toe up. Most everything else was non-craft related.
And finally my current WIPs:
As you will appreciate, the Christmas festivities have cut into my quiet time so on the sock front, I have managed to complete the ribbed cuff section and move onto the leg.
In the case of my cabled handwarmers, I only managed to finish the ribbed cuff section. Although I can knit stocking stitch in the round while my family play Scrabble right next to me, I am not yet up to knitting cables in company :-)
So that is 2014 for you. I have already started mentally planning my list for 2015, but that is for my next post. I am back to work tomorrow, so will call it a day.
I wish you and yours all the very best for the coming year. May 2015 bring you all that your heart desires, and may the frog stay away from your needles!
Stitching wise, I have been concentrating on Crypt Club because Mum's birthday is less than a month away. The chart is on two pages and what you see is mainly the bottom page. I have a little back stitching left to do and there should be a martini glass on the table. Mum doesn't drink martini, but a cup of tea might look odd - still thinking about this. There is less to do on the top page, so fingers crossed I get it done in time.
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