What to sew on a really hot day

Christmas cross-stitch that's what. The autumn cross-stitch needs some unpicking to be done and hence a good light, so I have been stitching these reindeer rather than start something new.
Unpicking has been done now - hopefully all of it - so I will be back on that one next.

Almost There

I never meant to neglect my blog for so long but my camera broke and despite new batteries and a new memory card it still wouldn't work, sort of. So today I have bought a new one so here is one of the first photos taken with it.
A LOT of progress has been made with project since the last update, in fact it is almost finished and I hope to have it completed in the next week or two - should manage this now there is lots of tennis time coming up.

The Last Third

Here are the last four months of the year - all done. Today I finished sewing in the ends and am now joining this to the rest of the blanket. Then it is just the border to do - not exactly sure what to do for that but it won't be too elaborate as the grey will be a little dull compared to the rest. No idea how long it will take to do a border - hope it is not another year.

The Last Row

At last all the squares are done for the temperature blanket and joined into rows. Just over 1 row to join to the last third now, then ends to sew in. After that join this section to the rest and put an edging on - not sure what to do for that yet.

Rosehips

Here is the first part of the kit from the last post. Leaves and rosehips I think - not sure if the one on the left is wrong :-( Need to sit in a good light and try to work it out.

Holiday Sewing

This lovely cross-stitch kit was a birthday present from a very dear friend of mine. And autumn has some of my favourite colours - see previous post.
I started this kit back in the summer last year whilst I was on holiday, but it has been parked for a while now as I have been busy doing the temperature blanket (still waiting for the last yarn to arrive so I can finish the last 6 squares).

Autumn Ta-Dah

When I came back to my blog a couple of weeks ago, I was reading the side bar to see what unfinished projects I still had when I spotted 'Autumn Scarf'. I was initially puzzled as I couldn't think what this was but then I remembered the wool from Bakewell. Surprisingly this didn't take very long to knit and it was a real pleasure to make.
So here it is, the finished scarf which has been worn several times.

12th Night Sewing

This is the progress so far with Rudolph. It is a rather lovely kit to stitch despite having had to unpick it once. Obviously it was not done for Christmas, but I did my final stitching on 12th night and it has now been put away until around September when I will dig it out again and try to complete for next Christmas.

Secret Sewing

I bought this kit at Harrogate but was not able to post it here sooner as it was to be a Christmas card for my hubby. Typical in that I was working on it right up to the deadline - not necessarily my fault but I lost a couple of night's stitching when needlework evenings were rejigged and bad weather prevented us from going to our knitting group - yes I know it is sewing but the lovely ladies there don't mind that I sew more often than knit!

I sat in bed until around 1am Christmas morning sewing this until I could hear hubby coming upstairs and then managed to get it framed albeit not very well on Christmas morning when he had to pop out.

The cross-stitching was lovely to do but I can't really say the same for the back-stitching - half stitches and goodness knows what all over the place. 

Now Christmas is over I intend to frame it myself in just a small frame, nothing fancy, that we can bring out each year.