A finish and some framing

I finished Hot Air Balloons. Maybe one day I'll sew some binding around the edge, but probably it will just go in the drawer with the other things.

I framed Irresistible Iridescents (and it looks much better in real life)

And Desert Diamonds

And Winter Scenery. This one looks a bit funny as the picture was taken with it flat on a chair, but I've rotated the photo so you can see how it's supposed to hang to make the 'lollipop'

Winter Scenery (AKA The Lollipop)

Another finish:

Our local ANG chapter choose to stitch this together. We picked thread from the big buckets and are supposed to be stitching along together throughout the year. I think I forgot to stop though :p

I had originally thought I'd use purples but then decided the pink and green might look cool on the sparkly canvas. So I picked a bunch of pink and green and put it in a bag. I was randomly choosing threads by dipping my hand into the bag where I couldn't see what was getting (and they were all in floss-away bags so they didn't feel different either), until the first variegated square. Ok, the first one that was supposed to be variegated - I had already done a square or two in the variegated. I did deliberately choose to keep the two squares that were variegated in the original still variegated, then shortly after stitching that first one I decided I really liked the windmill type pattern that was emerging, so then I planned the rest of my colours (probably only another 5 squares) to continue that pattern.

Then I did just one row of the background right around. Originally I'd planned to fade it out into the sparkly canvas (I wanted to be able to see the sparkle), but after doing one round I really liked how it emphasised the round shape and made it look kind of like a lollipop.

And another picture of our cats - once again taking over MY chair - I leave it for 5 seconds and turn around and there's at least one cat on it: :)

And all the other projects I found while photographing the other two

Something has changed with St. Petersburg. I have actually finished the first part (including beads and crystals) and am working on the second part.

Other projects are my Boo-Lah-Dee-Dah box lid - did I tell you about that before? I don't think I did. Boo-Lah-Dee-Dah is something our EGA chapter is doing on the 5th Saturday each month (so yes, the next instalment is the end of this month), and we are making a Halloween box, appropriate since I think the last 5th Saturday this year is Halloween. Except that every time I see or think the name I start singing Boo-Lah-Dee-Dah, la-da-de-da, la-da-de-da (from the line in the song in the L&P advert 'there ain't no place I'd rather be, la da di da', which after looking it up is apparently called 'Counting the Beat' by The Swingers).

It appears I also haven't shown you Winter Scenery from Stickideen Von Der Wiehenburg / Wiehenburg Needlepoint - this is one that we are working along together with at our ANG meetings every couple of months or so through this year.

And My Heart's Garden which is a monthly, or bi-monthly project for EGA. We've had two parts so far - our next part will be next week-ish.

There was also another EGA project - a little blackwork pincushion - I've finished the stitching, and just need to put it together.

And yet another EGA project - a little felt needlebook.

And a bunch of teacher bookmarks have been stitched too - but I won't bother with a picture (yet) because they are just the same as all the other ones over the years.

Those small projects have been really good for stitching during Scouts. And if it wasn't for Scouts they probably wouldn't have much progress on them.

And when I was pulling these things out to photograph them I saw the project from my beading workshop sometime last year - I don't think I've ever shown that to you either. So here is my progress on Pagoda by Mikki Ferrugiaro.

(see that paw going towards the ornament - that's why there are only these two photos and not a lot more to choose from to get a really good one - by the end of this photo session I had two very interested cats - they don't normally take such interest in my needlework)

I think that's all my current projects - if I come across more I'll post them.