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Seasonal Exchange HD

Lilacs_lg

I can finally show this HD to you, since it has been safely received. This is Lilacs from Lavender Wings. It was my Seasonal Exchange piece for Annette. I really enjoyed stitching this – yes, even all those Colonial Knots! I finished it off as a cube-it, inspired by a couple of other stitching bloggers who had recently done the same. I was kind of winging it though, as I only had some vaguely remembered instructions to go by (I think they might have been from Summer Truswell’s stitching pages, but her articles are no longer available since they all went into her book, which I really must buy sometime). Anyway, it turned out quite beautifully, but being Miss Forgetful, I didn’t manage to take a picture of it finished before sending it off, duh! Annette has since supplied me with one though, which you can see here.

Dance With Me

Well it’s about time I had a HD! I’ve only finished 5 other pieces in 2005, now I can add another. Sadly, I can’t share it with you yet, but I can tell you it’s lovely. This is my piece for Annette, for the Seasonal Exchange. When she’s received it, I’ll post pics here.

On a related note… where does floss go? Is it the same place as odd socks and ball-point pens? I spent an hour last night looking through all my stash, WIPs and kitted projects, trying to find a skein of DMC712. I know I have it… I have every colour on stitchbows, I labelled every darn one myself. So where the heck is it? Eventually, I had to give up, and buy a new skein, at the outrageous price of $0.95. Grrr. I never like to pay full Australian price for floss. And don’t worry, I didn’t fall off the wagon for this – since it’s for gift stitching, it was an allowed purchase. Still annoyed me though.

Anyway, that’s #1 of my 3 planned HDs for my month off. Onwards and upwards!