Received in Exchange

I am SO lucky! These two ornaments are ones I got in exchanges this week. The cardinal is from CyberStitchers and came in the mail on Friday. The triangle trees were from my face to face chapter, Pocono Mountain, and I won it on Monday. Both are proudly on my tree now, and will be there for years to come. Thank you!

Pink Petals

The area is filling up nicely; there are not very many areas that are unfilled that aren't either specialty stitches or beads. I think I'll get this area done by the end of the month. Even if I am very far behind, it's coming along at a pace acceptable to me. I wish the pink stood out more and was perhaps a bit more variegated.

Two More Blues Down

I'm feeling so close to getting this second corner done now! The blue outer border is done, as is one of the medium blue bands. There was even enough left on my needle to start that same band on the third corner. Today's a stay at home day because of the weather, even though it hasn't really started snowing yet. Perhaps I can finish up the second corner!

A Bit Browner

The filling in of gaps continues, and I feel I'm almost at the point where I can push it out to the edge, since everything's matching up.

Joyeux Noel

Yay! It's finished stitching! My husband has decided to be creative and wants to put this into a heart shaped frame. I really like the way this turned out and, because it was stitched from my stash, it even counts toward my project challenge. I hope to get one, perhaps two, more Christmas designs done before Christmas. If you want details on how you can do this pattern, go back to my previous post on it and you can get the link!

Ornament for Exchange

You may remember this heart. My husband took it and wanted to frame it when I was done. Well... he's been taking ALL my finishes lately and refusing to part with them, so I really needed one for my EGA chapter's ornament exchange tonight. I told him it was either this one or the Joyeux Noel one. He cut the mat board last night for it and I had to rush this morning on top of running errands to get it done. My husband took the camera on a business trip and left at two. Before he did, though, he took a picture!

A Block Without a Theme

I think the problem with the embroidery on this block is that I didn't have a plan when I started and now it just looks like random embroidery on it. I'm not really happy with it, but I'll be throwing more stuff on it this week and maybe it'll improve. Beads are next. This is the first block I've felt this way about, too.