The needles have been flying tonight – although to be honest there really wasn’t much stitching left to do on this one. Tonight I managed to put the final stitches into Boo! My absolute favourite part of this piece is the wee scissor fob – I love, love, love it!! I need to wait for my sewing machine before I can do the finishing on this one, but I’m taking an extra two days off work after Easter, so perhaps I can get my machine back before then and have a mini finishing frenzy 🙂
“Boo! Scissor Keeper and Fob” by The Drawn Thread
stitched on 36ct Sand Edinburgh linen
with recommended NPI Silk threads (with the exception of black,
which I substituted with a Hand Dyed Fibers silk)
Before I called it a night tonight, I also started a new ornie, only ‘cos it was sitting here all kitted up in my bedroom, laying on top of a pile of books … so I figure it was as good a time as any to finally get it stitched up and out of the way! It’s supposed to be stitched with 1 strand of DMC 501, but to be honest I wasn’t thrilled with the coverage whatsoever, so I went back into my bedroom and rummaged through my silk piles … and ended up using a skein of Premium Hand Dyed Fibers silk called “Jewel Weed” which is almost identical to 501 but much, much thicker … personally I think it was a great choice, and I’m enjoying seeing this come together – I guess this will take me a couple of nights to complete this week, then I need to start thinking of what project to start next.
I have to admit I’ve really been enjoying having a bunch of small finishes – after having a bit of a ‘dry spell’, it’s been great seeing that finishing pile start to build up again over the last two months 🙂
Of course there’s still one more finish to show you, but it still hasn’t been received by my recipient yet, so I can’t share yet … geez I wish the postman would hurry up, though, ‘cos I want to share! 😛
Feather Stitching 
Beautiful Stitching.
You’ve been BUSY, Anne. Everything looks wonderful!
My head is spinning at all the finishes you’ve had the last couple of days!! Hurray for you! 😀
Great work on all the finishes, Anne, your needles have been flying this weekend.
Gorgeous Anne! It’s a nice feeling to have abunch of small finishes in a row isn’t it!!
Congratulations on your beautiful finishes!
My goodness, girl! I stop in to catch up and find that you’ve been stitching like a woman possessed! Great work; everything is lovely, as always. Your work is meticulous and you take such beautiful photos. I hope that you do get your sewing machine back in time to do some finishing and dig into your ever-growing pile. BTW, you have to tell us the name of the design of the new ornie you started, puh-lease.
Goodness, have you been busy! It all looks wonderful, especially the DT – congrats!
Another finish! You really are on a roll. This piece is so cute.