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Hello new stitchy friends! Are you ready for a peek inside my works-in-progress basket? There are four of them (yikes) but only two that I'm working on in rotation.

Vanellope
Start date: I dunno, like 2013 some time?

First up is the oldest, which has been hibernating for a couple years. I did the design myself, it's Vanellope von Schweetz from Wreck-It Ralph. I'm going to do some pixel art from the movie in the background. It's actually on a tote bag made of Aida, I'm going to do something from Lilo and Stitch on the other side.



Tea Time (Time Pieces)
Start date: Jan 16, 2017

Then is my tea time clock! My father-in-law picked this kit out as a present for my wife, but she passed it on to me to finish. There's five teacups, a teapot, and a tray of sweets, I'm doing them one at a time before finishing the border. I also moved the title so that the clock was more centred.





Happily Ever After (Frosted Pumpkin)
Start date: Jan 21, 2017

I am completely in love with this project. It's the Frosted Pumpkin Mystery SAL for this year, my wife bought me the pattern for Christmas. I am so excited to finally do one of their MSALs, I've been watching them for a couple years now. February's block has been released, but I'm working on finishing up the border before I do it.





Comforted With Love (Precious Moments)
Start date: Feb 4, 2017

I was having a really terrible day at work yesterday - just one of those constant grinding days that wear you down. So my treat to myself was starting a new project, this adorable Precious Moments one from the 'Welcome Home Baby' booklet. I find a lot of the PM stuff overly preachy but this one is cute.

I them all and it's hard to pick a favourite but I think the tea time one would be it. I enjoy tea parties but alas they are seldom seen around now.

I too am doing the frosted pumpkins MSAL this year. I bought it in December and due to life just got round to started it

Lovely designs. I too am drawn to the time for tea project. You are doing a fab job.

Donna

Four lovely projects I especially love the time for tea project looking forward to seeing more

vanessanjf wrote:Four lovely projects I especially love the time for tea project looking forward to seeing more

Completely agree!!

Carole

rcperryls wrote:

vanessanjf wrote:Four lovely projects I especially love the time for tea project looking forward to seeing more

Completely agree!!

Carole

Agree. Four great projects.

Starting a new project is just the thing, isn't it.

I like all of your pieces. I, too, find starting a new project often helps when I've had a stressful day. I especially like your Vanellope piece. I really enjoyed "Wreck-It Ralph". It was different from a lot of the princess movies. I felt it didn't get the recognition it deserved.

I am looking forward to more updates!

Awesome projects!! Looking forward to your next updates on these!!

They are all great but I too am drawn more to the tea time one. Look forward to more updates on these

All very cool! I like Frosted Pumpkin stuff. I've only recently bought one of their previous stitching charts. Looking forward to seeing all these grow

February's block of the Happily Ever After sampler is done! The white is not showing up well on my fabric, so I did a bit of backstitching on the mountains and the goat. Back to working on the framing.

And looking at Heidi now I can see two stitches I missed . . .

Very pretty, can't wait to see the next square.

What a cutie that one is it.

Such a fun project!!

Good progress! That looks like it is fun to stitch!

Carole

What a lovely design; going to be fun watching new sections appear each month.

Another update - put away the Frosted Pumpkin to work on this adorable Precious Moments. I made a couple of major counting mistakes, but I'm just going to backstitch them away and pretend they never happened. I'm so happy with the way it's turning out. I just have to finish the blue of the blanket and then backstitching.