Themealicious fantasy fiction February

Just a few days late...oops!
Theme-a-licious is organised by Heather at It's geek to me and is a monthly themed SAL.

So this months theme was...

Fantastical Fiction February

What kind of fantasy creatures inhabit your Works in Progress? Or perhaps some fictional characters have leaped from the pages to your needles? Let's stitch on projects inspired by imagination.

Fantasy fiction isn't really my thing but it is hubby's and one of my wips from last year was this Game of Thrones design. Hubby is a huge fan so this became his valentines present. As you can see it's not been made into any thing yet as I usually give him a choice how he wants it made up. He has asked me to frame this one so it can be hung in our bedroom. 

The chart is from x stitch my heart on etsy. 

This month is March Madness. My plan finish some of the wips from last years march madness! trust me there are a fair few. I'm aiming for 15 projects over the month.

Plenty of choice in the WIP basket! 

Happy stitching friends

Wipocalypse 2014 - the first post

Wipocalypse is hosted by Measi at Measi's Musings and is a monthly SAL to try and get some of those wips in check. I've never been much of a serial starter but I took part in March madness last year as part of Theme-a-licious and this resulted in a basket full of wips that I've not done much with.

Each month has a topic and this month is introduce yourself and your wips. So I'm not really sure what to say that's not in my side bar biog. I love stitching florals and blackwork and quite a few dragons as hubby loves them. I like taking part in swaps especially ones like the travelling box I do with a small group of crafty friends. I'm more of a smalls stitcher than big projects although I have bigger projects planned for this year. I don't expect to finish the HAED on the list but progress would be good as it's been untouched for at least 3 years now.

So here are the projects in the WIP basket...

STITCHING

1. Big Bang Theory by Wee Little Stitches

2. Game of Thrones by xstitch my heart

3. Scissors biscornu

4. Donald Duck by Anchor

5. Keep calm bookmark

6. Toddlers sheep by Mouseloft

7. After the bath by Mouseloft

8. Traditional sampler by Anchor

9. Mother's Day garden by Mouseloft

10. QS Iris (HAED) by J Wall

As you can see the sampler, Iris and BBT are not in the pic as BBT is on my frame, the sampler you saw in my last post and the HAED is under the bed...somewhere! 

SEWING 

11. Fabric fan brooch

12. Chinese fabric cushion cover

13. Hexagon Christmas wreaths x4

14. Hexagon quilt

15. Felt Christmas lights garland

16. Prick and stitch bookmarks x 3 

17. Cushion cover for free motion embroidery panel

18. Do something with fabric fusion panel

Probable starts for 2014

1. Lizzie Kate stitcher in residence

2. Lizzie Kate work, pray, trust

3. Mouseloft dragon

4. Mouseloft giraffe

5. Giraffe silhouette 

6. Blackwork lady (WOXS)

7. Mother and baby Giraffes

8. Chinese dragon from latest cross stitcher. 

9. Scooby Doo by Wee Little Stitches

Some of the to do's are in pic below

There are also the 24 cover kits I plan on doing and the 12 Christmas ornaments from the Needlecraft Haven SAL 

I'm exhausted just thinking about it all! 

Edited to say Big Bang theory completed yesterday!!!

A little stash to help me on my way

I've had a bit of a stash accumilation this week,

Firstly came the Made in felt bookazine, Its actually quite good. I don't usually buy the bookazines as they tend just to be a collection of charts from the magazines but this had some lovely projects both in felt sheets and to needle felt too. I loved the mermaid and am very tempted to do that one, also the needle felting projects were lovely too. I actually think it was a good investment for the needlefelting projects as you don't tend to see them covered in magazines much - when they are its one project and a fiver spent.

You can see with the felt mag 2 Lizzie*Kate charts I brought. The work Pray Trust one is for a housewarming for 2 friends and the home one is just for me! It may get to the point when I just frame the chart as my to-do list is so long at the moment it may never get done!

It is my wonderful best friends birthday on Friday and I always try and make her something. It's usually jewellery as she wears a lot so I brought some fab pink beads and some charms to describe her. The ones loose on the table are the ones I intend to use and the rest were from the packs the charms were in. the charms were from a fab etsy store here

We had a lovely day at the Evesham Country Park which is near where we live, seeing the trains as they have a narrow gauge railway there and it was they Gala today so they had them all out. There just so happens to be a needlecraft shop so it would have been rude not to go in. I popped in and got the new cross stitcher magazine and chanced upon 2 FQ's of fabric for my quilt. I couldn't quite see what was on the label style one so brought it hoping it would be nice. Here is the section of it before it repeats, it's a bit wedding-y but there are some lovely bits too, I love the doves and I'm going to use that this weekend to make an engagement card for my colleague. Well that's the theory anyway!

Lastly I started something new last night, It's a game of Thrones themed design I'm stitching for my hubby for our wedding anniversary in a couple of weeks. He's a huge GoT fan so I'm hoping he likes this. I had a bit of help chosing it as I've never seen the programme/read the books so thank you Steph for explaining it to me. The chart was from Etsy and you can find it here Ok you can't see al lot but there is a little bit done...honestly!

With all that shopping done, best I do some crafting, enjoy your weekend everyone.

Kerry. x