Past Projects

So, here are a few photos of 2 projects I completed last year and gave away as Christmas presents. The first one is a scarf I knitted, not very ambitious I know, but a lot of work went into it and I am pleased with the end result. And so is my Dad, which is lucky as it was his Christmas present :-D He is modelling his scarf.

This scarf took me around 3 years to make in total, but only because I kept on getting bored and putting it away for months. I did more than half of it in one session, whilst watching the entire first series of 24, in 24 hours :-) I miss being a student sometimes!

The next project took me much less time to complete. It is a blackwork piece that I made for my Mum for her Christmas present last year. It was made from a kit, which provided the pattern, aida and thread. It was my first attempt at blackwork, and I think it turned out fairly well :-) I enjoyed doing this project, blackwork is particularly rewarding to me as you can see the design taking shape relatively quickly, compared to cross stitch. I have a much larger blackwork kit waiting to be started, but I am determined to finish the big cross stitch I am currently working on first, so it may be a long while before I even open that one! Anyway, here are the pictures of the finished and framed final product -

My embroidery floss that I ordered from amazon has now arrived, it has all of the colours that I need for the card designs that I have in mind, but sadly, none of the aida that I ordered has arrived yet, which means I can't start work on them just yet!

I started and finished an entire project this weekend, as I have been without a car, and the weather has been crazy bad with floods and suchlike, but that is a whole other story, which will follow soon :-)

Cheerio for now, S x