I'll probably end up stitching more of the stockings next xmas, they make nice little gifts I can get together in a night or two.

Naturally I got something crafty as a gift myself - my family bought me the Derwentwater Designs Foxgloves panel, to match the Delphiniums I got for my birthday. Both are cross stitch on 28-ct linen. I've had a go at evenweave before and found it really difficult, but I think that may have just been the piece in question. That was the Earth Goddess design (right - this is a scan of a photo, not the finished piece) from Cross Stitch Collection in about September and is currently my Round Robin piece. A Round Robin is where a group of stitchers get together, choose a piece each and then pass them around with each person doing part of it. In my case, it's 1/6th of the design. For the Earth Goddess I stitched the lower central section, from the arms down to about the waist, where the flowers on her wrists stop. There was a lot of blending and tricksy backstitch in there.
And here's the second piece, Vikki's Winnie the Pooh calendar (right). I stitched "May", as it's my birthday. This one was more difficult as it's on 16-ct Aida and there were a lot of really annoying fractionals in the butterflies. Usually I'm pretty lazy with fractionals and get away with not changing needles, but for this one I really needed a sharp. Cue lots of pricked fingers and swearing.
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