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I hope you all are enjoying the festive season with people you love.

It’s taken a while but I’m finally releasing my latest three designs: Te Mata Peak (miniature carpet), BrightSea Village’s School House and my first blackwork design, Fauntleroy Frog.

After being a bit jaded with stitching when I took on too much my love of needlework has returned and I’m now halfway through my next miniature carpet – a small Oriental style called 221B – and keenly looking forward to starting the next BrightSea Village project. Herse’s a hint: it’s a little bit spooky.

I’ve also had a burst of inspiration and have lots of new design ideas. If only I had more time to stitch them all up.

Wishing you all good things and happy surprises in the year ahead.BSV School Frog TeM

Lesson Learned

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I should have known I’d get in trouble if I broke the rules. I just couldn’t resist the temptation of trying to work on two projects at a time and now I find it’s just slowed me down. I’m just not a multi-tasker. I need to concentrate on one thing at a time. Lesson learned!

So I’m about a third of the way through BrightSea Village’s schoolhouse and three quarters of the way through Fauntleroy Frog. If I’d stuck to doing just one at a time I’m pretty sure I would have been finished both by now. (Sigh.)MMLesson Learnt

 

Breaking The Rules

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TeMata:FauntWIPI’ve recently finished stitching my next mini carpet – Te Mata Peak. It’s another Arts & Crafts style one and I’m very pleased with the colour combinations. I hope to be releasing the pattern somewhere around July-ish.

I usually make a rule of only working on one stitching project at a time. Once upon a time I wasn’t so strict with myself and had a whole mess of unfinished projects. It was lots of fun to start new things but a chore to finish them. Eventually I made myself finish them one by one and swore never to let myself get in that situation again. But now I find myself with two new designs on the go – Fauntleroy Frog, my first blackwork design, and the BrightSea Village School House (not pictured).