Hello Fellow Stitchers!

I stitch quite a lot, but I always seem to make things that take me ages to do, so I figured I'd start a blog and that it would be a way of keeping me going during my stitching projects. A way of ensuring I finish them!!

I make a lot of my own patterns and constantly have ideas that sometimes fall outside my ability (timewise) but, hey, I do 'em anyway! What's a stitcher without a few hundred WIPs in their bag?!?

To start things off, here's my current project:

This is The Beatles Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band Drum!

Started on 17th June 2011, it has been a longer ongoing project than originally expected as it was supposed to be finished by October 2011. This picture was taken on 14th September 2012 so that didn't happen :P

I had a major fail in the first couple of months. My pattern printed off ok, then I printed the symbol key and happily set off stitching. It wasn't until I checked the photo of the drum on July 3rd that I realised the key had printed off wrong and I was using a completely incorrect colour!! This had to be unstitched (after a massive tantrum, of course) and the peice was restarted.

It's going great guns now, after having a break from it for about 6 months because re-starting it meant that I wasn't stitching very fast the other 8 months when I was picking it up every now and then. I am hoping to finish it next week so that it doesn't go into a third year before being given to its intended owners, but I always have higher hopes than I can achieve!

Watch this space, though, as I try to prove myself wrong!!