December 03 X-Stitch Diary

28th December 03

My last finish of 2003 is Vermillion Stitchery's Ragdoll Angel Cat, which I completed today. It was stitched on Silkweaver's Wildberry Sparkle 28 count evenweave.

I've also started preparing my material for the Easter RR I'm organising, I've oversewn the edges, and started gridding out the material.

As this is going to be my last entry for 2003, I would like to wish everyone reading this a happy new year.

My stitching "To Do" list for next year includes:

Finishing Too Pooped
Donna Kooler's Noah's Ark Sampler
Donna Kooler's Mary Mary Quite Contrary Sampler
Frederick the Literate (which I got for Christmas)
Completing the Cattitudes RR
and probably many more projects....

23 December 03

With a break of one week for members to "catch up", week five of the Mystery Stitch Along is now out and I've stitched it. I found that I made a couple of errors with the red of the "tomato". Ooops. I put these errors right now.

This morning I've been organising two round robins for next year for the UK Cross Stitching Friends group which I run. The first is a six-member Spring Flowers Robin, and the other is a four member Easter Themed Robin. I am taking part in this myself. I'm choosing the theme of Rabbits and I'm going to Stitch Rosie the Rabbit from Cross Stitcher's March 2003 issue. She looks a lot like one of my own rabbits, Jessica.

20th December 03

Whew, where does all the time go? In the last two week's in the midst of numerous Christmas, parties, dinners and bashes, I've been frantically trying to get the last of my Christmas stitching done.

What's not stitched now won't be done until next year as all the final posting dates have now lapsed. Here's the cards that I stitched.

(Some of these have gone internationally, and some I know have already been received so I hope I'm not spoiling anyone's surprise by posting pictures of them here).


Sent to my Mother	Sent to my Aunt	Sent to Karen	Sent to Piwi

Sent to Petra	X3 Sent to fellow Cattituders		X3 Sent to fellow Cattituders

As well as the above cards, I also managed to squeeze in an hour or two (quite literally) on Too Pooped. I've progressed a bit along the branch of the tree.

As a reward to myself on stitching all those cards, I allowed myself to start a little Vermillion Stitchery Angel Cat design of a Ragdoll. This is a freebie chart which you can download from here. I did have a minor problem printing out the chart because some of the symbols got a bit screwed up and came out strange. I think it's a similar phenomena to when you want to print a £ and you get a # instead. So be warned.

I'm stitching this on Silkweaver's Reflections' Wildberry Sparkle. God I love this material. There's nothing like it in the UK. Even the new lurex and pearlescent aida's can't compare to it. Silkweaver are having a 25% off sale at present so I treated myself to four pieces of material and I've also joined their Fabric of the Month Club. Aren't I naughty?

My mother has also been busy, like last year, she has stitched me a Christmas piece (--> right), I still need to get this framed.

10th December 03

It's the Christmas Party Season and quite frankly, I'm finding it hard to get any stitching done apart from the odd card and the CSO MSAL. Here's my progress on this week's (week 4) and last weeks (week 3) MSAL stitching. It seems at the moment to be some sort of country kitchen design. So far this MSAL has taken seven and a quarter hours to stitch.


Week 3	Week 4

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