Blaady Frog!!

Well after a long and busy weekend trip back to the UK from Thursday until Monday I was really looking forward to getting back into my Lickle Ted design... when the evening finally came I suddenly realised I wasn't really in the mood but soldiered on anyway.... this turned out to be a HUGE mistake!!! :(  

After blitzing over 500 stitches, just as I was finishing up, I saw I had made a big mistake and needed to unpick well over half of what I'd stitched! Sooo gutted, managed to hold back the tears and also from throwing it across the room too! I just calmly put it down and went to bed.....

Plenty of sleep and a few hours into my day I managed to unpick the whole lot and it's now been restitched too. :D I'm so proud of myself. :)

As much as I'm itching to crack on with some more tonight alas it's swimming night for the boys and so I won't be in until after 9pm.. think i might sneak some more in tomorrow afternoon though. Tee hee.

Hope you all had a fab weekend... we're half way towards the next one already! :) xxx

Zombie alert!!

Ok so I'm finishing my current project in record time which is fab but at the same time I'm becoming a grumpy, over tired zombie, willing to bite anybody's head off if they dare cross me!! :(

I've begrudgingly come to the decision that tonight I'm going to finish the area of colour variations that I've started and then have an early night. That way I'm still getting some stitches finished but can catch up on some sleep too!

The only other frustrating thing for me at the moment is that I have a non stitchy weekend ahead of me... we are travelling back to the uk for a wedding and so will be away from tomorrow until Tuesday!! I'm going to get severe withdrawal symptoms! Hopefully give me the push I need to crack on once I'm back though. :)

So everyone have a fantastic weekend, I'll get lots of pics at the wedding to upload and show you. Mke sure you all do lots of stitching for me! :)
Big hugs xxxx

Sunday evening stitchathon (hope ur ready Kerry!)

Before I start my stitchy session this evening I would just like to say a huge THANK YOU to hippywitch for allowing me to take part in her giveaway! I think it is such a generous thing to go out of ur way to do and it has really inspired me and shown me just how nice us crafty lot are!!

Right now on with this evenings stitchathon, as usual my target is 400 stitches so fingers crossed they are done before bedtime.

I'll be back with an update in a few hours. xxx

Stitchathon update...

Well this evening I started stitching at 8:15pm due to getting engrossed in sorting out the hundreds of msgs I had on Face book! And I finished my last stitch at 10:55pm... somehow I manage a whopping 572 stitches!!! I'm so pleased with myself but I would just like to confess that this included two quite large areas of one colour which made it nice and straight forward.

Lickle Ted is really coming to life now and he looks so much nicer stitched than he does in the picture. I'm glad I decided to give him a go. :)

I hope everyone has had a nice Saturday and got everything done that they wanted to.

Will post a progress pic at the beginning of next week so you can all see how I'm getting on.

Enjoy the rest of weekend. xxx

Stitchathon update...

Well I'm really getting stuck into my Lickle Ted design at the moment, he is just so cute and coming on really quickly too!

I managed 461 stitches in my two and a half hours of stitching tonight which isn't bad at all, his face is visible already so roll on tomorrow evening so that I can get started on his body. :)

Hope you have all had a nice evening. xxx

Crafty treats

Here is a picture of a few items that I treated myself to last week. Everything is from Ebay and the most expensive item was £2! I'm love finding crafty bargains. :)

I can't wait to make the two little keyrings and the pincushion! They must go onto my "to do" list first of course. Now I must ban myself from Ebay for a while before I get too addicted!

Here he is at last!

Hedgehog by Polyanna Pickering, chart in issue 168 of World of Cross Stitching.

He really was nice and easy to stitch, all full stitches and as you can see only a small amount of backstitch to bring out a bit of detail. He measures 25x19.5cm, thats what I'd describe as a medium size design.

I love most of Polyanna P's designs and have quite a few on my "to do" list too.