Ballet Dancer is finished

Finished at last! There was more still to go than I thought - I spent a lot of hours working on her this weekend determined to finish but at about 11.30pm last night gave up because I had run out of yet another shade and my supplies, being in the stash cupboard in the bedroom where my husband was sleeping, were not to hand. I finished her off this evening. The picture is bad - I'll see if I can get a better one in daylight next time I'm off work. (Wednesday). I ran out of 4 different colours in the end, warning, Lanarte are mingey with their threads. I had a bit of a sort out of my stash cupboard the other day and came across a number of kit thread cards with all the left over threads. DMC flower fairy kits are very well supplied, I'm sure some they had almost enough thread left over to stitch the design all over again.

I showed her to my husband, who said 'well done, now screw it up and put it in the cupboard with all the others'. Ok, I have quite a lot I need to get framed, including, shame on me, Celtic Christmas which was finished over a year ago. My husband does like a lot of my stitchwork but I don't think he's ever been a fan of my Ballet Dancer. (I must add here, they are not screwed up, they are rolled up).

My sidebar is out of date - I need to update it but this new version of blogger won't let me use html tags - I don't know how else to get the pictures on there! I'm wondering if *upgrading* to this new version was not such a good idea after all.

I've decided to go back to rotation stitching now that I seem to be back in stitching mode, but, instead of a 6 project rotation I am reducing it to 4. I have 5 projects currently on the go, Teresa Wentzler's Fantasy Triptych, Cecily Mary Barker's Rose Fairy, Mirabilia's Sleeping Beauty, Passione Ricamo's Moon Fairy Spirit and HAED Waiting for Neptune. The HAED will go on hold for the time being until one of the others is finished. It will be a while off, they all have some way to go on them. With this new rotation the idea is to stick with each one a week at a time, that way I should get a good chunk done without swapping them around too much but get some done on each every month. Tonight I'm pulling out Fanstasy Triptych, the land of green and brown here I come!