Theme-a-licious February Update

Fan-Girl February is this month's theme.

I plan to stitch on a choice from my four favourite designers - Joan Elliott, Just Nan, Nora Corbett and Teresa Wentzler.

So far this month I have stitched two different Just Nan projects.  The first one to be completed is one of her smalls, Spring Peepers.  I have had this chart and charm for eons and the fabric for a couple of years.  Thanks to the Just-Nan-a-thon it finally came to the top of the list.

Stitched on 28 count blue evenweave.

The design is very simple, mostly plain cross stitched with a few eyelets and some beads.  I used standard beads rather than the petites (because I didn't have the petites!).  There are four backstitched frogs in gold.  To liven up the lilies I added four straight stitches to each one using DMC Light Effects (the pink one!).  This made a huge difference to the piece, I love them!

Here's how my Just Nan smalls are displayed:

Some of them aren't Just Nan but rather than have gaps they're up there too.  My Dad made this shelf based on one I bought from a House Clearance shop which was just 10mm too small all round to fit the frames.  Typical.

The second Just Nan finish was for the Yuku Board Band Sampler Round Robin.  Kathy's theme was Just Nan in blue.  Here are my bands:

My bands come from the Burgundy Stocking and the Evening Star Sampler.  I changed the colours to fit in with Kathy's scheme.  I also added the beads to my band as I noticed Kathy had stitched the same band in different colours so I echoed her bead placement.

And here is the whole piece so far:

It's now off to Sophia to finish and return to Kathy.

This evening I started my Joan Elliott Round Robin piece based on the 6 Flower Fairies.  The other 6 participants will be stitching a Fairy each and I'm stitching the centre piece made up of 6 of the flowers.  I don't have a progress pic but here is my plan produced on the computer:

Finally a Big Thank You to everyone who took part in the Secret Stitching Sweetheart event yesterday.  It was such fun visiting all the blogs and seeing everyone guessing who'd sent which piece.  The bonus piece on my blog was by Mouse.  I will be doing it again next year, and if you can't wait that long, there will be an online Easter activity too.  All you will need is an Easter or Spring related stitched picture to join in.  Keep your eyes open for the sign up sometime towards the end of March.