More Stitching

I'm getting a bit slack with the blog but not so with the cross stitch!
I've been quite prolific over the past week or so, the second wing of the large fairy (Apple Blossom Fairies) is finished, and all the surrounding background half cross stitch around the bits I've already done (I know what I mean!), and am now onto the first leg. Its taking a long time but its fine, I'm still enjoying this one.

I decided to take it out of the hoop and stitch without one, because I don't like the way the hoop squashes the already done stitches. I might, in future, just use a hoop for the first bit of my projects before it needs to be moved around. Its not so bad stitching hoopless!