finally finished

 I managed to knuckle down and finish the sampler ! That's one off the finishing pile.

I also cast on a mitten with the black and white yarn, not quite got the sizing right but I will add a few more row of random checks to lengthen the hand parts. My yarn has proved to be too thin but since these are to replace my house mittens I'm not too disappointed plus will design my own next time. This was a useful lesson on how to design the thumb with a pattern on it.

you can see my tension issues with the yarn. Pattern by Traci Scott

nearly finished

Its been a slow day, some spinning, the white just needed skeining, the brown needed a bobbin spinning then plying. They both need a wash

dark brown shetland,white bowmont

Just for comparison, the green bobbin is off my nano which you often see in my photos when I'm out and about. There is the the same amount of fibre on each bobbin but the green one holds 50gm and the larger one 200gm.

My editing programme is hiccupping, sorry about the placement of some of the text , I've tried all sorts but it won't behave properly.

The nearly finished object it the sampler. I'm just too tired to count correctly so I'll finish it in the morning.

For anyone who wants to see the box of doom contents, please remember that I buy from charity shops and started to stock up for my retirement stitching a while back. I may sell the tapestries just haven't decided yet as I do have a large bag of the wools as well and may be tempted in the future.

Who am I kidding? I'm never going to stitch all of these but I'll give it a good go. Mostly cross stitch but a few embroidery and blackwork ones in there as well.

Anyway, more tomorrow (Sunday)

WIP update

 Todays been mainly housework, washing, sorting out the stuff from the van but I did get to finish a jacob yarn hat that I cast on sometime last week.

This together with yesterdays stitching

and tonight's new hat cast on

is pretty much all I've worked on since we got back.

back to the stitching

 Back in 2021, Jacob from Modern Folk Embroidery started Black Sampler month in Novevember, simply start to stitch a black sampler during the month, which I did.

Needless to say, the progress has been slow but yesterday afternoon (2 November) I started to go through the cross stitch basket and decided that it may as well get finished this Novermber.

I did take it with me on our last trip in September and there is less than 25% to complete. I spent some time stitching yesterday and will have it as my ongoing project for the next few days to give my wrist ( old injury flare up) a rest from the knitting.

Edit.. just to add that the pattern is from the gift of stitching magazine, June 2008. I purchased the complete set of magazines on a dvd  a couple of years ago for about £25 for the full 72 issues.