It's finished!

As part of 'The Big Finish Weekend' I completed and finished the Teepee Bears Door hanger. Here it is completed.


Here it is finished!


Thanks for everyone on this blog for their encouragement. As I've said before the baby this was intended for is now nearly 13!

Now for the next one. It's The 'Country Companions Sampler' from DMC. This was probably started 7 - 8 years ago and was intended to be my 'Railway Weekend Stitching'. So this project stayed at the railway in a drawer for years. My intentions were good. Having some stitching at the railway would mean that I wouldn't have to cart any other projects down there at weekends. Well it worked for a bit. But the truth of it is I just don't like it. When finished, notice I say when and not if (I'm being very optimistic here)it will not fit in with anything else I have. So this one is destined to be given away too. I suppose it might be possible to turn it into a birth sampler.

This is what it looks like so far.


So looking at it I did what all good needlework mags tell you not to do and that is park my needle in the work. As a result there are three rust spots. First job to get them out. If they don't come out this is a none starter and UFO #3 will be seeing the light of day again!

Not much more to do

This weekend we travelled to London by train to attend a family gathering. (The Other Half's birthday usually coincides with the Epsom Derby so we go there and then out for a meal in London in the evening.) So it was a good opportunity to stitch on the Teepee Teddies. Unfortunately I left the chart at home so I was only able to do the obvious backstitching. I think that the next time I stitch on this, next Sunday evening it should get finished, fingers crossed!

May be I should go away more often!

This is my latest progress report on the Teepee Bears Door Hanger. I have been away for a few days and took this a long with some other stuff with me. The backstitch on one side is finished as is all the cross stitching on the other side. I now know why this became a UFO. There was not enough of the pale yellow floss provided. You can just about make out the slight difference in colours in the 'box' as I had to use a DMC equivalent to finish it. Now it's more backstitching. I an hoping to get this finished (made in to a door hanger) by the end of June. Then what do I do with it? The baby it was intended for is almost 13!

Spot the difference!

OK, so Sunday evening of a 'Railway Weekend' is my allocated time for the UFO I have chosen. Well what with one thing and another it didn't happen. Now it would have been so tempting to say, never mind I'll leave it 'til next time. But, no, inspired by everyone else I stitched on it on Monday evening.

Can you spot the difference? Maybe if this photo was clickable so you could enlarge it (if you know how to do this then please email me with instructions as I don't) you will see some backstitch on the completed bear. I actually quite enjoyed working on this. Heaven knows why it became a UFO in the first place. The Country Companions UFO, still in a drawer at 'The Railway', now that's another story.

My choice is ...

This is the Teepee Bears, designed by Joan Elliott for Bucilla. It was started 8 - 11 years ago and I do not know why it was never finished. I'm going to allocate every other Sunady evening to this, yes I'm starting small. Looks like lots of backstitching is required, joy, maybe that's why it became a UFO?