Little Meg - Page 6 complete!

I have found it a real struggle getting pages 5 and 6 finished on Little Meg.  I finished page 4 in August last year, so maybe its because I haven't worked on her for such a long time.  One of my HAED 12 month goals was to finish this one, so hopefully I'll make it - only 2 full pages and 4 part pages to get her finshed, and I know my daughter would love it if I could get her finished for her for christmas!  Little Meg is a HAED QS and is by an artist called Linda Ravenscroft - I love her work!

And carrying on the christmas theme, I managed to get Alan Dart's Father Christmas knitted and made up ready for my sister's birthday present which I gave her yesterday although her birthday is today "Happy Birthday Nicola xxxx"  I know its a bit random to give her a knitted Father Christmas for her birthday in May - but hey - I'm sure it was a surprise.

Still been having the dreaded migraines but rested lots and manged to get back to work, so therefore able to get some craft time for me!

Thanks for looking!

Happy crafting

Lou

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Chesterton Progress, Little Meg and Caterpillers

I've finished page 1 on Chesterton, one of the freebie SK given for participating in the freebie SK SAL.  I'm not a fan of cats, as I'm allergic, but a very good friend at work likes cats so I decided to stitch her this for her birthday, which was in March, so I'm a bit late!!  I've told her I'm making something for her but she doesn't know what yet!  I need to decide what I'm going to make it into once finished - Any suggestions??  Anyway here is my progress........

Every time I stitch a HAED I'm amazed at how the detail is kept within the stitching!  And I simply LOVE the eyes!  Maybe I'll be converted into a cat lover (pictures only) by the end of this stitching!! 

On completing Page 1 of Chesteron, I decided I'd have a change and was itching to get back to my HAED Noah's Ark by Barbara Brown http://heavenandearthdesigns.com/index.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=3038' (which i've completed almost 3 pages now) But asked my 5 year old what I should work on next, and she chose Little Meg by Linda Ravenscroft http://heavenandearthdesigns.com/index.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=5835'  Which I am stitching for her, so no surprises really that she chose that.  Here is my progress so far.......

And I must say that I'm glad she chose her as I'm really enjoying stitching her again.  I love that I have so many projects on the go as it gives such variety, I just wish I could visulise finishing them all, as some are so large and I have charts in my stash which I'm itching to start!  Determined not to start any more until I have a finish!  Will update my progress with Little Meg next week (that is if the dreaded headaches stay away and let me stitch to my heart's content!)

I've also been busy knitting for my first order.  I was asked whether I could make a caterpiller like 'The very hungry caterpiller' the children's story - well I'm not one to shy away from a challenge, and after finding a free pattern on the web, learning to knit with double pointed needles (with lots of thanks to my mum for teaching me) and figuring out how to crochet eyes, antanea and legs, then making 3 (as the first one didn't turn out quite right) here are the finished products (and I must say I'm very proud of them!)

As always many thanks for stopping by!

Lou

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