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Saturday 26 November 2011

Little Angel is FINISHED!

 Right then, a miracle has happened, I've managed a second finish in 2011, I really didn't think that that was going to happen. Here's Little Angel by Maria Diaz.
I've got mixed feelings about this one. It was quite an easy stitch, although I really did get sick of the sight of cream, as it felt like that was all I worked on for two or three weeks. It does look really effective now that it's finished, although I do have to say that it's really not to my taste, I've only stitched becuase it's a present for some friends who are due to have a day in new year! In fact Ben's even declared that the mum on this looks a bit like our mum to be, although I'm not as sure that I can see it. But it does make it look even more thoughtful than it actually is, so I'll go with it if that's what he thinks!




Of course, the fact that Little Angel is finished means that the frame is freed up and Little Snap Dragon can finally go back on to a frame and I can stop feeling guilty about the fact that I've been neglecting him for nearly an entire year! I love this piece, I settled down to work on it again last night and am back in love with him. It's such an easy stitch. I have a vague memory of thinking that was a bit confetti based when I was stitching it originally, but after working on a couple of HAEDs this is suddenly really simple to work on.
I was going to work on Dragon Rider this week, (Ben's away so I've got a day of stitching goodness ahead of me) but now that I've got Little Snap Dragon back I just want to keep working on it, I reckon I can get the wings page finished today, and hopefully the stalks on the bottom page as well if I put my mind to it and really work on it today (and this week of course, but it may be a busy week this week).
In other news, it's the knitting and stitching show in Harrogate today, and seeing as I live about 5 minutes walk from where it's being held I couldn't not go, so before my stitching marathon can start I'm going to see if I can test my will power and see if I'm capable of spending an hour or two in a room with that much stitching stuff and not buy anything... I suspect that I can't, but you never know, I could surprise myself.

11 comments:

Pauline said...

I really love Little Angel!

Claire said...

Wow great finish, well done.

Carla said...

Great finish !

Astrid said...

congratulations, beautiful

Barb said...

Very nice. What a treasure of a piece. Great job on it.

Nicola said...

Little Angel is stunning xx

TammyK said...

Little Angel looks great? Congrats on another finish this year :-)

TammyK said...

There should be no question mark after great in my previous comment. My fingers hit the wrong keys more times than not on this iPad thingy. Sorry.

Lesleyanne said...

Congrats on a gorgeous finish. Look forward to seeing your progress on Dragon Rider.

Caitlin @ Naughts Cross Stitches said...

congrats on the finish :D it looks lovely and the colours evened out.

Tama said...

Congrats on your finish! It's gorgeous!