Butterfly Heart

I'm happy to have completed this.  It's quite unusual for my normal style of stitching but it's good to step outside the boundaries occasionally. 

Now to find a large enough frame!

Slowly.

It's taken quite a while to finish this page. Heat and stitching doesn't seem to mix for me.

Not long now

A further page finish brings the completion closer.

Every page finish....

...however small, is a page closer to completion. 

Butterfly Heart update

It's been a while since I've had a page finish in pink.  However, since I've had a couple of days off work to care for my younger son who had surgery at the weekend, it would be foolish not to use the time wisely. 

The surgery went well and he's recuperating nicely.

Half way there!

Time off pays off.

Butterfly Heart update

Another page closer to completion. I do like pages where very little is stitched. Technically speaking, this was page 9 and 13 as page 13 had only 83 stitches.

Butterfly Heart update

Another page completed. 

It's got to the interesting stage now, where I'm excited to work on it. I'd say I'm about a third of the way through it.

Needles and hooks

Our friends came to visit today.  Lots to eat and drink, a good natter and a few stitches added to my butterfly heart. 

For the last 18 months, this fabulous cross stitched Eddie Stobart lorry was painstakingly created by Richard.  The chart was made from a photograph of the actual lorry named after our Colly!

Colly herself has just put the last stitch in a crocheted blanket.

While I finished another page of my butterfly heart.

Page finish - Butterfly Heart

I'm really enjoying stitching this up.

Update on Pink Heart Butterflies

September's effort.

Page finish

It has taken me a while to be able to return to longer stitching sessions. I'm almost there but I am reminded of my injury if I try to extend beyond an hour at a time.

I can today reveal a page finish. 

A little break is required now, before the pain beats me.

Holiday stitches

It's been a couple of months since I've managed to put needle to cloth as too many other things took priority... or I was too tired after work.

Having just returned from a week's holiday in North Yorkshire, I have something to show for my early mornings woken by seagulls! 

Butterfly Heart ♥

I belong to a crafting forum called A Crafty Natter where a few of us share an update of what we are working on each Wednesday as a way of encouraging one another to finish our projects.

This is my update. We've had a bank holiday weekend and I've had a further two days' holiday so I've managed a couple more stitching sessions.

It looks a little more like a butterfly now.

Butterfly Heart update

A few more stitches have gone in so I thought it was time for an update. I'm averaging about an hour a week split up into small stitching sessions.

It looks a bit like a bunny!

Butterfly Heart

In the pink!

I am well known for not being overly fond of pink. However, as soon as I saw this design by X Squared Cross Stitch I just had to have it!

Now I am getting stronger, I am hoping that stitching isn't going to cause too much pain in my shoulder, but I'll not push my luck so it's likely to be stitched up over a longer period than usual.

This evening, hubby measured and cut the fabric (evenweave, 28ct Brittany). He then very kindly helped me sort all the threads out into my small bobbin box.

And the first stitches went in....and then promptly frogged because I didn't read the correct number!  Second attempt was more successful.

Off we go!