More Tiny Stitching

I have been pretty much a OAAT this month (One At A Time) working on The Little Stitcher's Fairy Tale Advent Calendar.  Apart from one day when I misplaced the thread ring and had to wait for replacement threads!  Thank heavens for SewandSo's fast delivery.

Here are the first sixteen designs in rows of four:

The consensus seems to be number four is a dog.

Love the blue snowflake in this row.

Look, Karen, squirrels!

And another dog, a dachshund?

The lady on the left is Saint Lucy. whose Feast Day is celebrated on 13th December mainly in Italy and the Scandinavian countries.

I'm really enjoying this little series, managing to keep to one a day on average.  This week I'm going into town to see if I can get the supplies I need for my display idea.

I did make a couple of new starts, one for the Hobbit/ LOTR Challenge found on the Crochettes blog.  Reveal Day for that is St. Lucy's Day by co-incidence.  The other is going to be sent out as a prize recently awarded on this blog so I shan't name the design but here's my start:

OAAT is satisfying but does not provide alot of photos!  Around the Blogisphere I have noticed that not so many people are participating in NaBloPoMo this year, in previous years my Reader has been jammed full!  Astrid has found many reasons to be grateful this month.  Nia has her baby-brain well and truly in gear.  Lili seems to be single-handedly keeping the Hallowe'en SAL Blog going with some lovely designs.  And Daffycat has released her annual reindeer ornie which I had to have this year because I'm sure she has modelled it on our visitors:

Pop over to Daffycat's to see what I mean!

In other blogs, people are deciding what to do about the various activities many of us take part in each year.  The WIPocalypse, Theme-a-licious, IHSW etc.  There's a new one for next year, the Just Nan SAL hosted by Zeb of Keep Calm and Stitch, so if you're a fan pop over there and sign up.  I'll be hosting my usual blog hops (click on the tab at the top of this page for more details).  The next one will be the Advent Calendar Blog Hop.  We have a mere two spaces left for this now.  So if you would like to join in this year, send me an email quick!  Click on the door to the right for more details.

Finally I'd like to share two blogs I really enjoy - Needleprint and Mr X-Stitch.  Two very different blogs but with the same mission - to share crafty goodness with us all.  Needleprint is the more traditional of the two, lots of information about books, museums and tantalising antique sampler auctions.  Mr X-Stitch is more modern and edgy, especially their X-rated Saturday entries!

Click on the relevant image to learn more about the two blogs.