Mel's Change of Year Roundup

Well the 2009/2010 changeover went very well for me :)

 Christmas brought lots of presents and thanks to the mail strikes both international and domestic, the presents keep coming. All gifts listed in the Christmas 2009 folder.

On 28 December a few of us got together for a stitching day at Colours Down Under.  A few of the ladies let me take their pictures here.

At that same event, I finished the 2006 Incircles Christmas Ornament, bringing my stitching finishes total up to 10 for the year.  Double digits is fine by me :) Especially as Vienna Ball took most of my emergy last year what with changing states, changing houses (twice) changing work (twice) etc etc.  My 2009 Finishes folder is here.

After a tiring long day at work and getting very close and personal with some helicopters collecting water for firefighting, I decided to spend New Year's Eve at home. So New Years Day I got a lot of stitching done :)

My new starts in late December 2009 and 1 January 2010:

• Wicked by Lavender Wings
• Hannah Hummingbird's Knot Garden by Liz Turner Diehl
• New York by Vervaco
• Ash by Firewing Designs
• Bunny Battle by Arelate Studios

Since I have returned to work and the reality of finances etc etc the stitching has almost stopped.  I'll have to move house shortly so all of these lovely new starts have been packed away except for Hannah Hummingbird which is on a deadline.

I'll get back to the others when work slows down and the house move has been completed.

So how was everyone else's change of year?

WIP - Ash

Ash by Firewing design.

I beleive Eva was thinking about the Kansas grass fires when she designed this piece.

She has personalised a different wording for me after seeing and discussing the Black Saturday Victorian bushfires in 2009.

Ash by FireWing designs

After the Black Saturday fires in 2009 I spoke with Eva (FireWing designer) and she personalised a version of this chart for me. This will be a gift for a friend so ther personalisation will be made apparent as stitching continues.

Started 1 January 2010.

WIP - Bunny Battle

I have had this design in my stash since when I still living in Canberra so about a decade :)

I finally found a piece of fabric the right size on New Year's Day 2010.

Bunny Battle by Arelate Designs

Started 1 January 2010.

One of my favourite designs for quite some time ....

WIP - Wicked

I won a chart from the Lavender Wings booth as a doorprize in the October 2009 Online Needlework Show.

How could I choose any other design?

Wicked by Lavender Wings
Won as a doorprize in the October 2009 Online Needlework Show

Stitched in Buckeye Scarlett on Picture This Plus fabric.

Started late December 2009.

WIP - New York

Cover of kit.

Vervaco kit in the same series as Moscow: http://gothtigger.multiply.com/photos/album/118/WIP_-_Moscow

Hopefully New York contains all the necessary thread :)

WIP - Hannah Hummingbird

Cover of the chart and the kit box.

This is a model stitch I'm doing up for Colours Down Under. Janine does stock the Liz Turner Diehl kits.

http://www.coloursdownunder.com.au/shop/

Stitching get together

Monday 28 December was a public holiday here in Australiaso a few of us had a Get Together at the new Colours Down Under bricks and mortar shop.

There were 8 or 9 of us there is airconditioned comfort while it hit over 40C (100F) outside that day. Anyway here were a few of the girls who were around and allowed me to take their photos when I had the camera out.

As can be seen, we all did actually stitch !!!!