N - New Year's Magic

16th April "N" Post

"New Year's Magic!"

It's Thursday 16th April and posting Day 14 of the "Blogging from A to Z April 2015 Challenge".

Today is "N" - "New Year's Magic"

New Year: the time of the year at which a new calendar comes out and hangs on the wall and we all make these wonderful resolutions!

Magic: everyone needs a little bit of magic!

"New Year's Magic" is a design probably best stitched at the end of the year - but I saw this lovely fairy and decided to stitch her during my Crazy January Challenge.  At the risk of repeating myself.... this one is a Brooke Nolan design... link to her freebie page is here

The last time I showed her on my blog she looked like this:

Now she looks like this:

She is starting to taking shape now...  I know that she looks a bit weird at the moment, but I am missing a couple of thread colours so I have had to stitch around those spots for now! (My husband can't believe that I don't have every available thread when he looks at what I do have!!)

That's it for today's post... tomorrow is Friday!  I am so hanging out for Friday....

Also, don't forget this weekend is IHSW (International Hermit and Stitch Weekend).  Joysze is taking sign ups now, so head over to Joysze's blog, say hi and sign up for a weekend of indulging in our favourite past time!



Til then.... Happy Stitching and Happy Blogging!
Hugs xx

Day 12 - Crazy Start #12 - New Year's Magic

Well, yesterday was a Christmas special, now today we have a New Year special.....

This sweet little Fairy wasn't on my original 15 starts for January but she was on my short list for the 31 starts.  Last night I decided to start stitching on her - that was assuming I had the threads to do so! Which I did....

So here she is - "New Year's Magic" by Brooke Nolan (Brooke's Books Publishing).

"New Year's Magic" - Brooke Nolan (Brooke's Books)

The little Fairy is a freebie from Brooke's website and the link is here if you wish to have a look see at her.  Unfortunately the only picture I have of the design is the chart which I would prefer not show you due to copyright issues....  She is a real little cutie - typical of Brooke's whimsical designs and I can't wait to stitch on her again soon.

I do have some more of Brooke's designs in my longer new starts list so hopefully you will see some more whimsical stitching before the month is finished

So that's 12 days down.... 3 new starts to go and then out with the WIP's for a few days and then some more new starts.....  January is shaping up to be a good stitching month!!

Previous updates for the FB CrosstitchCrazy Event and Debbie's Ultimate Crazy January Challenge 2015 (DUCJC2015) are listed below if you missed them:

Day 1 - Winter Witch
Day 2 - "Eek!"
Day 3 - "Prancer"
Day 4 - "Autumn Fab Fob"
Day 5 - "Comet"
Day 6 - "Koala"
Day 7 - "Sneak Peek - Halloween"
Day 8 - "Printemps"
Day 9 - "été"
Day 10 - "Joyeux Noel"
Day 11 - "Feeling Festive"

Til next time, Happy Stitching!
Hugs xx