Ocean Wonders of the Sea

 It's been a bit of a week!  My poor step mum, who is 95, fell and she normally bounces but not this time.  She has a hip fracture and had it repaired on Friday.  I was travelling to see her on the Thursday when my brother called to say she had been taken to hospital.  Luckily my brother and I could stay with her through Dr's examinations, x rays and then on to the ward.  Of course the hard work starts now and yesterday she started her physio.  

But before all of that I did some work on Ocean Wonders of the Sea and got the two little puffins and the rest of the wave stitched.

If I get time today I will start on the ice berg and two seals.

We got home yesterday afternoon and I fortunately had an email reminding me that The Thread House free taster weekend was under way. This was recommended to me by Gail (the cozy quilter) and this morning I have watched one of the videos to make a small sewing pouch (I really can't resist them) and a little zipper pouch.  I'm looking forward to sorting out some fabric to hand stitch the surface and make them.  And I admit I am very tempted to join them for a year of classes!

I will link up with Kathy for some slow Sunday stitching and hopefully get some more stitches added to my SAL.

Ocean Wonders of the Sea and Sheep!

 As always it's been a busy week, this time with three days of looking after the grandchildren.  this involved school and nursery run, swimming lessons and rugby tots.  We are consequently exhausted so today I am looking forward to some slow Sunday stitching!  Here's what I have been up too.

The 4th part of Ocean Wonders of the Sea came out last week and I made a start on the albatross.

Next will be some of the border and a couple of puffins.  I also made a start on another little sheep virtues project.  I think this one is Peace, but I could be wrong!

this picture also shows my new embroidery stand and I must admit I love it, very comfortable to use and frees up both hands.  It's a pity I can't put my oceans frame in it.

Hop on over to Kathys blog for some more stitchy inspiration.

Ocean Wonders of the sea

 Well here we are in April, hard to believe we are a quarter of the way through this year already!!  I've had a bit of a stitching spurt to get the third part of the Ocean Wonders of the Sea finished.  I've still got nearly two weeks before the next part is published but I wanted to get on and finish the dress I'm making hence a cross stitch push!  This part consisted of 1850 stitches (total stitches 6499 - can I say I had no idea how many stitches were involved but some people have these programmes that calculates this sort of thing and it's quite interesting to know)

Here we have a Polar bear, some Emperor penguins and a school of Atlantic herring.

I'm really enjoying this stitchalong!  Tomorrow I should be able to link up with Kathy for some slow Sunday stitching.  In the mean time have a lovely Easter.