July Stitch from Stash and IHSW

Month: July
Spent:   £ 7.75

Earned: £ 0.00

Stitch from Stash is hosted by Mel from Epic Stitching

Essentially the idea behind Stitch from Stash is that we are limited to spending US$25 (or £15) per month. There are various exemptions (Birthday money, existing mag subs, clubs etc) but the idea is not to try and pervert the rules and to stitch some of that stash!  I will be posting on or around the 20th of each month because that is when I get paid!

July Budget	£ 15.00
JCS Hallowe’en Special mag	£   7.75
Current Balance	£   7.25

A good start to Part B.  I did have some money left over after my SFS June post and as my Willow Fabrics voucher from Cross Stitch Collection had finally been sorted out I decided to treat myself to some useful fabric.

We have some 35 count Country Mocha linen on the left, some 32 count White Murano on the right and behind them an enormous piece of 28 count Campari Linen Raw afghan.  I have no idea what I am going to do with this, it's huge but was a bargain £6.25 for an entire metre!  I thought about using it for the Primitive Hare Christmas Cubes and make a wall hanging but it's going to be rather large!  Seems a shame to cut it up into smaller pieces but we shall see,

The JCS Hallowe'en magazine is a good buy as usual.  There do seem to be rather more larger pieces than ornies this issue.  I prefer ornies.  My instant favourites are the Blue Ribbon Designs, she has two in this issue.  I will try do a proper review with photos soon.

Since it was IHSW weekend  I stitched some more of Elizabeth Shephard:

stitched on 30 count linen

Close-up of this weekend's motif: 

I have also been chugging away slowly on Book of Spells:

stitched on 40 count Jewel Butterbeer linen

I am filling in the moon with DMC 4130 which is slow going stitching over 1.

I have nearly finished Joan Elliott's Hope despite the attack of the frogs!  I found another miscount when I started stitching the sparkles but that one doesn't show so it is staying.

Finally, on to the Summer Postcard Blog Hop where the theme is Pets.  I've just sent the fouth card out but there's still plenty of time to join in.  Just send me an email with a photo of something you have stitched on the theme of Pets and a message about what pets mean to you.  The fourth postcard has been sent out to Anna The Stitch Bitch, so go and stalk her blog as it will be appearing there soon.