Scotland Photos!

No stitching updates this time! The past few weeks sure have been bad for stitching I'm afraid. ;-) So I thought I'd share some photos of Scotland for a change... I know I don't do that very often on this blog.

My birthday was at the end of last week, and I had such a nice time this year! :-) My dear friend Cilie was over from Norway to visit and we managed to fit lots in.

First of all though, I was overwhelmed when I opened a birthday package from KarenV late last week...

Thank you, Karen! I'll treasure these beautiful gifts!

Cilie went just a little bit crazy with the gifts this year and brought me over what seems like most of the shop in Drammen... !



Thank you again, Ceels. :-)

Loch Lomond was a wee bit on the wet and windy side...



But Edinburgh was amazing when we were there at the weekend. Even the sun was out!





As I didn't get too many photos on this trip, these are from another trip to Edinburgh that we went on a few years ago and belong to Cilie and Eleni (can't remember which is which - as I have them all in the one folder!)










Bummer that I'm back at work now!

Happy New Year! (& lots of old WIPs)

I think the title of this post shows it's been a while since I was last on here. ;-) And as the next couple of weeks are going to be a bit busy too, I thought I should try to get at least one post in for January!

I put together a list of my WIPs over the Christmas holidays, and I have to say I was a bit horrified at the amount I have -- I honestly had no idea! So here I'm going to share everything I have started. Some of these you'll have seen before, others not (meaning I probably haven't worked on them since I started this blog 2 years ago. Yikes!)

The first one is a recent start (the ONLY recent start)... sorry it's a bit washed out...

Winter Blues by Just Nan
A photo of the completed design here.

Village of Hawk Run Hollow by Carriage House Samplings
Photo of the completed design here.

Alpine Seasons Garden by Chatelaine
Photo of the complete design here.
Notes: This was started when it was a monthly class soooo long ago! :-( I did really well, until I got to the flowers surrounding the bit above... !

Watergarden by Chatelaine
A photo of the complete design here.
Notes: I started this *years* ago... I've done a bit more, but this was the last photo I took.

Assisi Peacock Sampler by Giulia Punti Antichi
A photo of the complete design can be seen here.

Deco Spirits by Mirabilia.
Photo of the complete design here.
Notes: I'm stitching mine vertically and I've replaced the Gold Kreinik with Silver Petite Treasure Braid.

Winter Beauty Princess by Passione Ricamo
Photo of the complete design here.

Winter into Spring (former) Mystery by Pamela Kellogg.
The final square (Spring) is below...

Quaker Samplings I by With My Needle
Complete design here.

Monthly Mania by Heart in Hand
All 12 months can be seen here.
(I'm doing mine as a bellpull)

I bet you thought that was everything! Ha! I also have the following as WIPs (but don't have any progress photos):

Peacock Cypher by Just Nan
Little Bands of Silk by Indigo Rose
Nova by Genny Morrow

I'm going to put links to all these in my sidebar, in the hope that it may encourage me to work on some of these more often. I do fully intend to finish them all one day.

You're welcome to make me feel very ashamed of myself!