Mystical Light

Thought I'd just give a quick update on the progress of Mystical Light during UFO nights.

The contest for the Christmas Humbug finished, and as expected I didn't win, but I did come third equal and a photo of the top ones will be on the Victoria Sampler website, so I'm really pleased with the result, especially given that was the first time I've entered anything I've stitched in a competition.

Christmas Humbug

The first stage of the competition is over and I made it through to the final :) I didn't get the most votes, so it's unlikely that I'll win, but I'm still pleased to have got that far.

Christmas Humbug

I decided at almost the last minute to enter the Victoria Samplers Yahoo Group competition for the Christmas Humbug. Thea provided the chart and we got to stitch it in our own colours and make changes if we wanted. I hadn't really had any idea of what colours to stitch it in until about a week before the competition closed when I suddenly decided that silver, white and blue would be nice and wintery and hopefully Christmassy too with all the sparkle.

Anyway, here it is:

I pulled everything from my stash. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. I mean, it's good because I didn't buy anything, but it's not good because it means I've got a bit of stuff. The only thing that I might have brought if I'd had time would have been ribbon, as it turned out the only thing that I had in anywhere near the right colour was Flair. So Flair is what the flowers are made of. I'm not entirely happy with how the centre flower turned out, but I couldn't think how else to do it, so that's how it's stayed, and it does look perfectly alright, so I think it's just me being fussy.