I've put my Christmas stitching to one side for the time being to concentrate on some Halloween goodies. My sister is a huge fan of Halloween and always whinges that I never stitch anything for her, despite teasing me about my 'granny-ish' hobby for years! It's her birthday this week (I can't believe I have a baby sister turning 33) so I decided to stitch her 'Something Wicked' by La D Da. I LOVE this chart - the colours, the verse, the spiders, the curly shoe, just EVERYTHING about it! And I love it even more now I've stitched it. Don't get me wrong, I didn't enjoy stitching row after row after row of black, black, black but I tried to mix it up a little by doing the verse one evening and black, black, black the next.
'Something Wicked' by La D Da
32ct Mocha Belfast Linen
I would have loved to frame it using the frame shown on the chart, but I find we're pretty limited here in the UK with framing (unless you want to pay an absolute fortune). Apologies for the rubbish photograph, the colours are so much brighter in reality but I find it so difficult to get a good shot without getting a reflection of myself in the glass!
I knew that once I had this little gem framed I would want to keep it for myself, so I got on with stitching another Halloween chart that I've wanted to stitch for a while - 'Uber Jack' by Bent Creek. This one I get to keep for myself. Below is a photo of how far I've got with it. I usually buy my overdyed threads from Patchwork Rabbit but unfortunately they were out of stock of WDW 'Sweet Potato'. It's on order now so it shouldn't take too long to finish this once the thread arrives.
'Uber Jack' by Bent Creek
32ct Natural Permin Linen
I have been busy with other stitching but as it is an exchange it has to be top secret for the time being.
We had a lovely few days down in London last week as it was my Father-in-Law's 60th birthday. Luckily the weather held out for his birthday B-B-Q. It was very strange being in our old neighbourhood. DH & I drove past our old house. I found it quite tough and even shed a little tear! I think I found it hard because we're not yet in our own home. We've been in limbo since May now and I'm itching to get into our new house. It looks like that will probably be happening on the 26th of this month...fingers crossed.
As I've often mentioned on my blog, I am a real book person, particularly children's books, in fact I have over 400 Enid Blyton books stored in our loft. Rachel (FIL's girlfriend) works in a library and she happened upon the book shown below. How amazing?! I was totally blown away when they gave it to us. I guess somebody else thinks that the names 'Iris & Isaac' go well together! The illustrations in this book are spectacular. As you can imagine Iris has asked for this book every bedtime since our return from London!
Ok, well I'll leave it there. I will be back with exchange stitching in the not-too-distant future and hopefully some news on our new house!
Regards,
Christina
