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My secret gift for a friend that recently broke her leg has been received, so I can post about it here!  I received this chart from a friend on the Cross Stitch Forum and it's such a fun little stitch. It only took a few days and I used some threads from my Dinky Dyes oops bags. There were all kinds of fun colours and the chart requested blues, but I think my friend preferred the purples I was lucky enough to get. They just work together so well.  Here are the colours I used to the far right in this...

For this IHSW, again hosted by the lovely Joyce of Random Ramblings, I dragged out one UFO and a WIP to work on.  This is AAN's Christmas Drop and I used up all my satin DMC. So I have to get some more. I had picked up some WDW in Whiskey and another golden yellow colour, but I might just get another silk for the contrasting colour. I'll have to have a look at what the Whistling Duck has. They have quite a few silk thread brands, so I might find the perfect one.  And this is a miniscule start on...

I touched on Mabel's Fancies A Song of the Weather Hardanger SAL in a January blog post, but I'd like to mention it more now that I've completed February and most of March.  For February I used a piece of 28 count white Monaco, and DMC variations perle #5 for the beaded edging and DMC perle#5 ecru for the kloster blocks. The woven bars are Caron Wildflowers (I think that's what the perle #8s are called?) Jade and the dove's eyes and French knots are Caron Wildflowers Blueberry.  I'd like to mention again how much I'm enjoying this SAL. The new...

For whatever reason my heart hasn't been in stitching White Wolves, so I've started something new. This will be an Xmas gift this year I think. It's large, but not difficult, and there's large patches of colour, so it shouldn't take too long to complete. Certainly before Xmas. Here's a picture of what it will look like. It's from a 2011 Cross Stitch magazine. There's only about 10 colours total and 3 metallics. They call for DMC Light effects, and I already had one that I needed, but I need 2 more. Michael's was out of one colour and their LE...