Progress, finished.

The embroidery I started here is finished and finally had time to frame it. I'm pretty happy with it and the fabric was great to stich on (unbleached - cotton? - from ikea). Not sure about the bird, thinking of unpicking, but I left the little guy there for the time being. Some close ups below so you can see all the irritating french knots in the tree:

Progress

 I have a few things in progress at the moment but with deadlines looming there is no realistic hope of finishing them in the next couple of weeks. I do have a knitted scarf to post that I made to try out a stitch pattern from Lynne Barr's excellent book, Reversible Knitting: 50 Brand-New, Groundbreaking Stitch Patterns.   I hope to find the time (+cash for yarn) to try one of the projects very soon. In the meantime I've started to do an embroidery I drew out an age ago, here's the progress so far:

Reasons I'm never going to finish my masters....Part #1

So with the whole day stretching ahead of me I could have done any number of things, could have even put the finishing touches to 1/5 of my dissertation. So what did I go and do instead? Well it started quite encouragingly when I cleared several weeks worth of notes/receipts/coffee cups off of my desk so I could actually get to do some work. But its also when the trouble began, I found my bag of embroidery floss which has been in such a mess I've been avoiding doing any stitching: obviously sorting it was more important than essay-writing so several hours later....

Embassy Sewing Needles