Piracy Framed

Finally a photo of the framed piece - well, actually two photos, cos I found a birds nest that had fallen out of the tree* and thought I'd try one of those arty set shot things lol

Now DH wants me to stitch some of the other from the range - so I ordered a piece of fabric to match from CountryStitch and will slowly buy the frames as I see them on sale at JoAnns. I'm thinking about taking the glass out though - this will help with the bulk in the back (since they are premade photo frames) and most of these designs have a charm which definitely won't fit under the glass. DH isn't sure about no glass though.

* We had a lot of birds nesting around our house this year, and in the air vents - when you were in the downstairs toilet you could hear the sound travelling along the vent, all the little chirping of the babies and the parents bringing them food and so on. One day I even got to watch a family line up on one of the windowsills upstairs and do flying lessons.

I don't know how it will be next spring since we've lost a tree to a storm, the air vent (on that side anyway) has had mesh put over it - the air vent to the dryer is still accessible, but we're going to be checking that one regularly now that we know about it and the problems nests in there can cause, and we removed some bushes from near the front door as half were dead, and the other half had a few hornet nests in them (and were half dead anyway). Hopefully it won't make much difference to the birds.

Piracy

I've finished Piracy - on time even. Just got to frame it now.

Progress and new starts

As well as the class I've already posted about I've been doing a bit of other stitching lately. I've made good progress on my Stained Glass Sampler - almost all the 'leadwork' done, just a bit more gold to do:

Next up are a couple of new starts - first for my brothers wedding is Marie Barber's Happily Ever After - I have to thank a wonderful blogger for passing her chart on to me since it's now OOP. Yeah, I know, I need to stitch a bit faster than this if it's to be finished in time.

And for DH's approaching '0' birthday is Sue Hillis' Piracy - it would be going faster except that I'm trying to avoid stitching on it when he's around:

And finally, just for good measure, the latest Lego plane to land here - the Sopwith Camel (it goes nicely with the Fokker DR1 in this post too). There was also a matching small one but I haven't taken a photo of it: