Christmas Countdown Progress Update

Most of my time these days is spent frantically trying to finish as many Christmas presents as possible before the looming deadline.  Which of course means that my Mill Hill stitching has been coming along.  So here's a quick look at my most recent updates. 

First off, I finished Holiday Stamp for my partner exchange:

I'll be finish-finishing it hopefully this weekend.  I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out; the petite seed beads are perfect for the scale of it.  I think the regular size Mill HIll beads would dwarf the design too much, but they fit perfectly here.

I also got the stitching all done on Love Potions:

I left the "No. 9" off the green bottle on the right, so I'm hoping it won't stick out because it's the one with the least amount of beading.  This will be hopefully be beaded by the end of the weekend, along with Stars and Stripes which I showed in my last update. 

I've also gotten quite far on Cookies for Santa now:

No longer just a green blob in the middle.  Just a bit more white to go, then backstitching and beading next for this one, again hopefully done by Monday.  Notice a pattern?  Then it's just 3 more kits to start and finish by the end of next week and *phew*, the Christmas stitching will be D. O. N. E., done.

Of course, then there are about 17 other projects I need to finish before the holiday that aren't stitching.  *sigh*

Free Pattern Friday: Happy Everything

Well, happy first Friday in 2015 everybody.  Today's free cross stitch pattern feature is a big one, so this is a perfect project to take on for the new year.

Even though most people think of snowmen as a Christmas thing, when I was going to school in Idaho it was actually much colder in January, so I think of snowmen more as a January thing.  And if you haven't noticed already, I love holiday/monthly patterns.  So when I found this one called Happy Everything that combines the two, I thought it would make a perfect new year project. Designed by by Lois Winston, it's a whopping 20" x 5" when stitched on 14-count fabric.

You can find this on FreePatterns.com (you'll have to create a free account in order to download the pattern).   Once registered and logged in, you can download the PDF of this free cross stitch pattern.

Happy stitching in the new year everyone!


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