BFF Sal A Bakers Dozen..here come the Vikings

 So nice to be back together for a chat (someone's holidays) and sharing other stuff  and stitching a bit on the SAL

I was working one area at a time, just to keep the count right and changing needles for each thread change would have been a bit annoying, so I have the "working" colours threaded up.

It is working OK so far. Not added the backstitching as yet so things her could be mistaken for other things, from a distance, well also close up at this stage.

Potentially we won't be working on this next week as we will be starting our 1st Wednesday of the month stitching on a theme and we are starting with the theme of Christmas.

I think I know what I will be working on my BFF is still in the happy contemplation stage when anything is possible.

CLICK HERE to see my BFF's progress...wow backstitching makes so much differance.

Sunday Stitching a double posting

 I should have posted last week as I finally got started on this new project. Not a cover kit this time but a gift I have been looking forward to starting.

This is two weeks worth , last week and this.

So a little bit about the kit, The thread came pre-sorted and carded. The threads are numbered, the pattern has both colours and symbols. But the colour on the pattern is "there for ease of printing" or so it says, which means the colours on the pattern are not the colours on the thread. 

My friend at Church rather liked the bolder colours on the pattern, hmm depending on how this sews up, maybe I will try colour matching to the pattern and see?

Sunday Stitching...A finish

 I am not sure why there was no post last week, there was stitching. The last of the cross stitches for which I had thread (in with the kit) , then I started the backstitching.

This week I finally got around to colour matching for the two shades of green I ran short of and finished the whole thing off.

Whilst the kit (as it came from the charity shop) did not come with a pattern or thread key it did come with its cardboard mount.

At this point I do not know what I am going to do with this, but it might end up in this mount I quite like the look of it.

It has not been ironed and is not set in just yet. Oh it is 16 count don't think I said on earlier posts.

BFF SAL a Bakers Dozen 2nd week.

 Time for some colour

I am still using the thread left over from my friends kit as mentioned last week. I think I will try and stay with that colour pallet for the rest of the project.

We will be having a little gap due to holidays.

CLICK HERE to pop over to my BFF's blog for her update...we have diverged in our approach, which is not surprising.