Two Finishes

But first a picture of my gorgeous Grand daughter. 

I got the last rounds onto this pretty little cardigan a couple of days ago, but only just sewed the buttons on this morning. 

 The colours really are much prettier in real life.

This was so quick and easy to make, I may just have to do another one, in different colours.

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 My second finish is my secret cross stitch. I collected it from the framers this morning. The problem with forgetting to take a picture of the completed work, before framing, is you end up struggling to get a good image! This one with a flash is the best of a bad lot I'm afraid.

I pulled my cross stitch Santa out and stitched on him over the weekend. It isn't as much fun as I'd like it to be at the moment. I'm stitching his wreath, it's made up of holly and ivy. There are 7 shades of green and three of red! So I'm constantly changing thread colours, and making sure to back stitch as I go! I'll take an updated picture in a day or two.

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Today we find out if Tony is finally redundant on Friday, or if the receiving company will require him to stay on for a couple of weeks to finish off closing down all the systems.

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I'm still waiting to hear from Immigration services to find out if I will have a residential visa. We're 99.9% certain that I will get it, but best to be sure!

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Busy day today, I'm off on the bus to Douglas to get a few gifts and visit my brother again. I hope to find time to sew for an hour!

Something Quick.

As I said in my last post, I started a new project. I wanted something quick! I seem to have a few long term projects on the go at the moment, so it was good to get this little jacket to the almost finished point yesterday.

I had fun with all those colours, of course they are not showing correctly here, they are much prettier in real life. I'll get this finished today, then maybe, just maybe, I'll get back to Santa.

Another finish.....

I finished the big blue blanket. My poor pinkie finger has been aching, terribly the last couple of days as I pushed to have it done.

I did want to make the bluer panel at the bottom a little longer, but alas I was running out of blues and wanted to be sure to have enough to do at least one round each on the edge. 

 Thank goodness I stopped when I did, that was literally all I had left! The dark blue has about 3 yards and the lighter blue a little more.

It's a very grey overcast day here today, one of those days when there is no weather! No sun, no rain, no wind, just calm and grey. So getting a decent photo was never going to be easy. What you see here is the best of a bad lot, but you get the idea. I shall miss this lovely cosy blanket, It has kept me lovely and warm in the evenings as I hook away at it, but I know the recipient will love to snuggle under it.

I started a new crochet project last night, just a short time after declaring the blanket done. I meant to take a photo of it, but got so frustrated trying to get a good blanket shot........

Never mind, I'll have something to show off next time.

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Right I need to take a quick trip to the post office, then the day is mine.

Crochet, or Santa? Hmm....

Getting there

The secret stitching is completed. All washed and pressed too. I forgot to take a picture before I dashed off to the framers though, so you'll have to wait until I get it back.

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The crochet blanket is currently undergoing edge treatment, so it will be finished very soon too! In spite of the pretty heavy snowfall last night and early this morning, it's now a great drying day, so both washing lines are full, so no WIP picture of the blanket either!

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Can't have a post with no picture, how about a squishy wreath.

I've had a busy day, so I'm off to relax for a while, before I catch a bus to go visit with my big brother.  Maybe I'll take him some of the chocolate cake I made.

Progress

In spite of a very busy couple of weeks that comes along with Remembrance day I did manage to get some time for crochet and stitching in between stints at Poppy shop, attending coffee mornings and duties on Remembrance Sunday.

It's nice when I have a little time to grab my crochet and hook up a row, or even part of a row. Just a few more rows on my blanket and I'll be ready to do an edge treatment.

My secret cross stitch is also progressing, slowly. Luckily the upper half of the chart is not as densely stitched as the lower half. So should come together much quicker.

The star of the show has finally arrived. The recipient is a sucker for little black kitty cats!

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I have a date with a bunch of Royal Marines today! We met up with them after the ceremony on Sunday and chatted with them about the British Legion branch here in Ramsey and the Royal Navy Association branch here in town. They were very keen....

I'm off to meet them today to introduce them to the Chairman and the secretary of the Royal Navy Association.  That should be fun. Still time for some stitching before I leave though.