Cross stitch rose keyring

Well it's taken me a while, but I am finally please to present my finished cross stitch keyring!

If you've not seen it before it was a free kit that came with Cross Stitcher issue #264 and instagram seemed alive with a frenzy of people stitching it the week the magazine dropped on everyone's doormats.

I can't be doing with seeing the messy side of things, although the back of my work is usually fairly good, so I decided to stitch a circle of felt onto the back to tidy things up and add a personalised touch.

I'd heard a lot of people were short changed when it came to the blue thread so I stitched the background in 3 strands instead of the suggested 4, and I've got loads left! So if you're reading this and were one of the ones who came up short leave me comment and I'll happily post what I've got left to you.

Going into hybernation

 

Hello! I just wanted to drop by quickly to say hi and to apologise for my sporadic posting over the next few weeks. Yesterday was my last official day of contact time at uni, so now I've just got three weeks off in which to finish off my dissertation and other bits of coursework and then I'll be all done! How scary is that? Those three years have gone so quickly, yet it seems like I've been at uni forever.

 

I can however promise that, although I may be away from my blog a little more than usual, I'll still have lots to share when I get the time. For example these rather yummy biscuits which I'm in the process of perfecting. I'm also working on a 22 before 22 update which I'll hopefully put up over the weekend as I have a day off(!!!) booked into my study schedule on Sunday.

 

So bye for now and hope to see you soon,

 

 

PS You can still find me hanging around on twitter and instagram whilst I'm away. I find thy are great sources of procrastination!

 

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It's a new project

I've been getting itchy fingers to make something recently and with an awful lot of uni work looming ahead of me I felt a real need to start a project I could use to relax and regain my sanity from time to time. And so on Easter Saturday a new project began...

...and grew fairly quickly...

I saw the design in cross stitcher 261 and thought it would look great in the wall of hoop art that I am planning for my room.

I'm quite liking the monochrome look, but once I've finished filling in the frame it will be time to add some colour.

I don't usually go for things with words or phrases because I find them a bit cheesy, but this seemed kind of apt at the moment as I finish my degree.

Plus every time I look at it I seem to find myself singing "It's a new dawn, it's a new day, a new liiiiife ... fo-or-or meeeeee! ... bum, ba-dum, ba-dum, ba-dum" etc etc, and who doesn't need a little Nina Simone (or indeed Michael Buble) in their life from time to time?