March Goals & February Finishes....

Hello! Another month has flown by...  it is getting very boring how quickly time is flying by now!!

I am back to give you a bit of a update and to show you my latest finish!

Finish #7
My latest finish is another Prairie Schooler design... "Winter's Eve".  I stitched this as my Feb ornie for the JCS SAL.

"Winter's Eve" - The Prairie Schooler
Just Cross Stitch Christnas 2015

I stitched this design on a piece of Navy 14ct Aida.... I haven't stitched on Aida for so long so it was quite nice to do so for a change!  The eagled eyed amongst you may notice a mistake or two... and a change in colour!  The bunny and smoke are supposed to be DMC3022 but as I didn't have that in my stash I changed both out.  I think I should have used a darker brown for the bunny as he blends a bit in the snow!  The main boo-boo was just a bit too major to frog everything so I have left it.... for some reason the house is out and of course that put everything else out!  I stitched the border counting from the roof and then when it came to doing the trees I discovered my error! Oops.... never mind I think it still looks ok with the tree tops right up to the top of the border! :o)

Latest finish done.... SAL update to come! :o)

February SAL Update:
At the beginning of February I set out the SAL goals that I was hoping to achieve during the month... below is an update those SAL's.

**JCS SAL (FB Group) - February: "Winter's Eve" (Designer: The Prairie Schooler) ü

**Christmas Ornie SAL Blog February Theme: Snow - "Snow Mates" (Designer: Blue Ribbon Designs) ü

**Halloween Ornie SAL Blog February Theme: Mummies and Monsters - "Pumpkin Man" (Designer: The Prairie Schooler) ü

**Stitch Maynia (FB group) February SAL update listed below:

- February SAL: "We Love Stitching" (Valentine's theme/or stitching anything we love):  ü
shoehorned "Winter's Eve" into this because I love Christmas designs and I have found a new love - The Prairie Schooler!

- Year of Starts! (12 monthly starts): ü "Winter's Eve" was my February start/finish

- 2016 Chatelaine Shenanigans SAL: no change on my Chatelaine WIP.....

- Brooke's Books Year Long SAL!: no stitching on my Brooke's Books WIP's in February

**Debbie's Ultimate Crazy January Challenge 2016 (DUCJC2016): have sort of changed my mind on this one... I will now try for 31 starts in 2016 (and 31 finishes in 2016!)

March SAL Plans:

**Stitch Maynia (FB group) March SAL is "It isn't easy being Green" - anything that has green in it or is spring related...

JCS SAL (FB Group): "Merry Christmas" (Designer: Samplers Not Forgetten)

Christmas Ornie SAL Blog March Theme: Santa and his helpers

Halloween Ornie SAL Blog March Theme: Pumpkins

Well that's it for today.... time for me to get back to my stitching!  Til next time...

Take care and happy stitching

Hugs xx

My First Prairie Schooler!

Yes, you read the title correctly!  I have just stitched my very first Prairie Schooler design!  And I loved it... don't know why it took me so long to stitch one!  As usual I am late to the party and I have discovered that I enjoy stitching them just as the designers have decided to stop designing!!

My first PS stitch is "Pumpkin Man".  I stitched him for the Hallowe'en Ornie SAL Blog as February's theme is "Mummies and Monsters".  I always have trouble finding designs for this theme as I am not a stitcher of monsters normally... but when I saw this design I thought he was cute and just the thing for February!!

Finish #5
"Pumpkin Man" - The Prairie Schooler

"Pumpkin Man"
Finished 14 February 2016

The design was published in the Just Cross Stitch Magazine Halloween 2015 issue.  He was very quick to stitch, which was great as a quick finish is just the way I like it!! :o)

I have now started another small Prairie Schooler design which I hope to be able to show you in the next few days as I think it should stitch up quite quickly as well.

So that's it for this post... but I will be back shortly with my GG update and another finish!!

See you then!
Hugs xx