One of the best things for me this year has been starting this cross stitch blog! It has given me sooo much joy and inspiration. I have enjoyed 'meeting' lots of like-minded cross stitch fanatics; I have enjoyed sharing my various cross stitch projects with you and I have been very, very grateful for every wonderful comment I have received! And I have found a very enjoyable way to keep my English language skills resonably alive! Simply a win-win all around! So THANK YOU SOO MUCH for being part of this wonderful experience!
I'm really looking forward to sharing many more projects with you in the new year, and to see what projects you all will choose to stitch in 2016.
So, on to real stitchy matters:) Today I was not able to work on Festive Flurry as much as I would have liked. I had to make rasberry ice-cream for New Year's Eve at my sister's, and I had another project to work on as well. This is as far as I have come now:
I have started to add faint outlines so maybe you can start to see what it is...? I realised that I had to start stitching the background too, since it is much more boring than the colourful buildings in the middle, and I don't want to risk being left with only the boring background and then loose my stitching mojo in the process...! Let's hope my plan works lol:)
Time to show you another Christmas gift I stitched this year. I stitched this picture for my dad, since he loves the sea and boats.
He actually built a large boat that we spend every holiday on when my sister and I were children and he still has the boat that is now over 30 (!) years old. The picture looked like a simple design, and it was, considering the limited amount of colours, but it was much more time-consuming to stitch the big blocks of colours than I imagined! I worked on it up until the evening before he received it and I must have spent around 150-200 hours on it. (I'm not the fastest stitcher around...) The design is from Cross Stitcher issue 292 and the designer is Lucie Heaton. I did change the words into the Swedish version of 'Every day is a gift' instead of the original 'Every day is a new adventure'.
At last I want to wish you all a
VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR,
and I look forward to catching up with you all in the new year!
Annie
Great stitching and all the best for 2016 :)
ReplyDeleteNice progress on Festive Flurry, I love the fabric color you stitch it on. And you have stitched a great gift for your father. Blocks of solid stitching just take a lot of time although they are not complicated :)
ReplyDeleteWishing you a Happy New Year too!
i bet your dad was thrilled with this gift and well done on getting it done in time. Wishing you a Happy New Year.x
ReplyDeleteWonderful gift for your dad, so nice you have that magazine chart. I enjoyed following your blog from the start. Here's to a fruitful 2016! Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteI am so glad to have "met" you also.
ReplyDeleteThe piece you made your father is wonderful!
Happy New Year!
Congrats your stitching is lovely. Your English is great as well I wouldn't have known you weren't a native speaker. Happy new year!
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