Working on the WIP Pile

After I finished Beneath a Sunlit Sky a couple of weeks ago, I decided to make a determined effort to whittle down the size of the WIP pile.  Unfortunately, most of my WIPs seem to also be BAPs ::sigh:: but there are a few smaller ones that I can tackle for some quick gratification.

 

The first one I pulled out was the Grumpy Kitty ornament.  I believe the design is from Brooke's Books.  The snow flakes were supposed to be stitched; I wanted to add some beads to give it a little more bling, but I found the snowflake charms in my stash and used those instead.  I also found a little sparkly doo-dad to use as the bobble on his hat.

I finished Grumpy Kitty and went stash diving again, coming up with this little piece:

 It's simply called "Acorns" and the design is by Pamela Kellogg.  I bought it from a now out-of-business LNS -- the design was a freebie that they had kitted with fabric, fibers and the button.  It's stitched on 16-count Heatherfield and the fabric is a much more yellow color than it looks in the picture.  The fibers are brown perle coton and Watercolors "Fiesta" (I think).  I'm not sure why I laid this aside ages ago unless it was because the stitching seemed rather cramped.  When I pulled it out the other day and took a close look at the instructions, I discovered that it was meant to be stitched over 2 on the Heatherfield rather than over 1 as I was doing.  Wasn't going to frog, so I just kept on with the over 1.  I actually kind of like the way it turned out.  I don't know what I'll do with it, but it might make a nice scissors fob.

With the little acorn done, I went back to something I started not too long ago.  It's a Christmas rose pin cushion design that was in Needlecraft magazine (a British magazine) in 1995.  I tore that chart out of the magazine, thinking that I would like to stitch it someday...and someday finally came!  Needlecraft was one of the first British stitching magazines that I bought regularly -- it helped that I was working part-time at Barnes & Noble and could use my employee discount!  I think that it's not published any longer, but I still have a few of the older copies in my stash.



So that's my WIP report.  I'm going to go upstairs and put a few more stitches in the Christmas rose.  Hope everyone has a good week -- happy stitching!