DSDUCJFC - days 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9

Well...you can tell that normal service has been resumed and the school holidays are over.  No time for blogging and not much more for stitching.

I had a mock maths exam on Wednesday so I have had to revise for that this week as well.  There's no rest for the wicked!

So on Monday (aka day 5), Rachael had chosen from the box. She picked Henry VIII and his wives. Here is the before and after photos.

As you can see, a bit of brown, a bit of red to the left hand side and that's it!

Then, it was Luke's turn to choose from the box for Day 6.  He picked LHN's Ye Olde Chocolate Shoppe which was WIP.  Here is the before...

...and here is the after!  A couple of lengths of threads down the left hand side...so much more exciting that the little black blob you got to see a few days ago...lol.

Luke's choice for Day 7 was Lizzie Kate's Santa which is stitched on some random fabric from my stash.  It is one of my new starts so no 'before' photo.

Day 8 and I chose Halloween Town by The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery.  I had stitched Part 1 and 2 but as the SAL is long since finished I won't worry about stitching the other 2 parts as parts but will just stitch it as I feel like.

I started the pink border which will have Halloween Town stitched in it eventually.  So...not a lot!

On the 9th day of Debbie's Challenge, my stash box gave to me...LHN's Party Cakes.  As this was also a new start, there really isn't a lot to see.  

DSDUCJFC - Day 4

I asked Rachael to choose from the box to see what I worked on today.  She narrowed it down to 2 different designs so I told her that I would stitch one for Day 4 and stitch the other on Day 5.  This means that yesterday I worked on Honeysuckle Courtyard.

So here is the design...sorry about the flash in the corner!

This is where I was before I started stitching.

And this is where I left off last night.  I am going to work on this later on today as well as I want to finish that band off and maybe make a start on the big one.  It has a little bumblebee button in the middle but I was wondering about changing it to a gold/brass 50 as it is for their 50th anniversary. Would anyone have any idea where I can get one from though?  I haven't got a clue where to look!

DSDUCJFC - Day 3

Yesterday, for day 3, I chose to start Shakespearean Fantasy.  It is a tiny little HaED chart with a mere 60 pages. Granted a few of them are part pages but even so...

I am stitching it on 28 ct white jobelan 2 over 1.  I did briefly toy with the idea of using black fabric so that I didn't have to stitch all the black background but VERY quickly scrapped that idea.

So, this is what it will look like one day.

This is what it looks now...500 stitches in starting with the top left hand corner. Don't get TOO excited.  That little white bit in the middle is where there will be one stitch of some colour other DMC 310.  I haven't looked to see what colour it will be as it might be a little too much excitement for me to contemplate a different colour! I'm sure the photo will be clickable if you really do have some kind of mad urge to examine the little black rectangle in more detail.  I will probably just about forgive you if you choose not to!  I think that perhaps the mark left by my Q Snap is possibly just as interesting :)

DSDUCJFC - Day 2

For Day 2, I chose to start San Man's Spring tuck.  This was gifted to me so it will also fit into Jo's Gifted Gorgeousness SAL too.

Once again, it was a day with less stitching than I would have liked.

Day 1 DSDUCJFC and the final finish of 2014

Happy New Year to you all. Let's hope that 2015 is a good one for us all.

In 2013, I made a little ornie with all my Tusal orts. So I thought I would do the same again in 2014. Luke chose the thread colour and said he wanted it in a square. It was finished 6 minutes before midnight.

Yesterday,was the first day of the DSDUCJFC. I chose Spell Check from Just Cross Stitch Oct 2014. I didn't get a lot of stitching time so there isn't a lot of progress. It's a cute design though.