January Stitching

I finished a bookmark I was designing for my GrandMom it included three suns, for her children, seven red seed beads, for her grandchildren, and ten orange seed beads, for her great-grandchildren. This was the first time I worked with metallic threads (awful), beading and fractional stitches. This was my first time I tried my hand at designing as well, and I made so many errors that I spent quite some time on it, almost a month actually.

I have that completed, YAY!!

I went to my local Joann's and did some shopping this month. I picked up the UK mag, Cross Stitch Gold (they had March 2014 out!!) so I picked it up and then I had to get some evenweave, and some floss.... total AFTER sales tax was $19.51 USD.

I love coupons!! They take competitor coupons too. I am the coupon queen around here anyways...

So I started the "Snowdrop Fairy" pattern in the Cross Stitch Gold mag I had picked up and the "Butterflies" as well, but I had a seizure working on the "Butterflies" and spilled  coffee all over it that wouldn't come out, so it was thrown in the garbage. Still working on the fairy... I can't wait to see it completed. There seem to be a lot of color changing though... Wish I could "grasp" the theory

of parking, oh well back to stitching.

Happy Stitching!