My first comment ever!

OK, sadly, I've been experimenting with blogging for over a year now, and I've finally just gotten the guts to "advertise" to a few people that I'm actually doing it! And I've also gotten my first comment (thank you Martha)! To answer your question about how to finish my ornaments...I'm not sure yet. I, like you, would love to have them framed...in my head I've been dreaming about something similar to how they're framed in the SB chart "2000 Years Ago" only with 8 rather than 4...but I've also been thinking about making ornaments out of each of them and then putting them on their own small ornament tree each year. But then you wouldn't have the effect of reading the full verse...Decisions, Decisions!

I also worked on the LK border last night...I made myself at least start it, so here's what it looks like so far:

Nothing amazing yet, but it will be nice to have it going early this year. This is the type of project that I always like the look of, and love, and buy everything for...but never actually stitch it!

Tomorrow I'm driving to Louisiana and spending some time with family, but I do plan to also start my Red Thread project...

Happy New Year!!!

7th Ornament...one more to go!

This ornament seemed to take forever, but here it is complete. It's actually only the 2nd one with the charm, and I do like the way that they look on them...


Today I'm going to start the last ornament and again *hopefully* the border for the new LK doubles...

Dianne

Let's try this again...

Well, I haven't dropped off the face of the earth...just dealing with my crazy life :)

Hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas! Between my son's birthday on December 19th and Christmas 6 days later, I can definitely say that we have had our fair share of present opening at my house!

I wish I could say differently, but all of the WIPs that I last posted in June are still WIPs. That's really sad. Of course, I've probably finished about 8-10 other things in between. Unfortunately it's always the big things that never seem to get done and the little things for quick satisfaction get done more often.

Going back to my previous posts from the summer, I definitely did not stick to my 25/50 goal...and in the spirit of brutal honesty, I'm not going to say that I'll do it for next year either...because that's really just foolish. Instead I'll talk about the things that I'm hopefully going to finish. I do want to finish some unfinished projects this year. I just don't plan on not making purchases in the meantime!

Here's a pic of the latest thing that I'm trying to finish: the Shepherd's Bush ornaments from all of the ornament issue mags. I've finished 6 of the 8 and I'm almost done with 7. I have 3 of the 8 charms...those will be purchased slowly as they're a bit pricey.


I plan to start a new project on January 1st. This year it will be the Red Thread series by Bent Creek. I've been purchasing the charts as they come out, and I've had the fabric for months, but I figured that this would be a good time to get it going. Also, probably tonight or tomorrow I'm going to begin the Lizzie Kate "Doubles" series.

That's it for now...