February Round -Up

 Just in case you were thinking that’s I’ve been slacking in my stitching this month, I really haven’t, honest!

At the start of the month, I finished the two ornaments for Winter

Cross Stitch Camp, which you have already seen and I then went on to work on ‘Oh Holy Night, Nativity’ for a few evenings.

Here’s where it was when I last put it down.

I didn’t make that much progress, but you can at least see the start of the shepherds appearing.

After that, I decided to make my Heritage Book my focus.

I started stitching the ‘Loose Feathers ‘ series back in 2021 as part of Summer cross Stitch Camp and really, really want to get it finished.

There are nine panels in the series but I really needed ten, so I was looking for a suitable chart to commemorate my older sister.  Kathleen had a hole in her heart when she was born and only lived for 8 hours, so when I came across ‘Forget Me Not’ in the ‘A Heart Remembers’ book, I knew it was exactly what I was looking for.

I changed all the colours, to match the rest of the panels and added the little bird and Kathleen's initials.

I also worked on designing and stitching the front cover

The back cover

The inside front cover

I’m also going to stitch the names of the charts on the backs of the pages and so far have finished the first one.

My plans are to keep going with this until it’s finished.

So that’s nine more page backs and the inside back cover to stitch.  I can begin to put the pages together as I go and then, when they are all done I will know how wide the spine needs to be and go ahead and stitch that  and finally FFO the Heritage Book.

Update – I just remembered I did some more stitching too….

My Christmas ornament for 12 in 23 and stitched a bit on Celtic Autumn and Palace of the winds.

Happy Stitching!

Sue

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Charts –– Loose Feathers Series

Chart – Forget Me Not

Designers – Blackbird Designs

Fabric – 36ct Fibre on a Whim – Wheat

Threads – Weeks Dye Works