Dear Sir,

Our client, Miss Emily Wilbraham, instructs me to inform you that with the arrival on her premises at half-past seven this morning of the entire percussion section of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and several of their friends she has no course left open to her but to seek an injunction to prevent your importuning her further.

I am, sir, Yours faithfully,

G. Creep
Solicitor-at-Law

12 Days of Christmas (Correspondence) - John Julius Norwich

The course of "true love" does not always run smoothly, especially with a beau obsessed with birds!

Here's a modern day version of our Emily:

12 Days of Christmas Avian Misery

This version might cheer Emily up a little bit:

CSM SR HI

One more for those of us on a budget:

12 Days of Christmas on a Budget

So what does all this mean?

Well, this is me:

Happy Dancing for a big finish!

This is Joan Elliott's 12 Days of Christmas, stitched on 28 count evenweave, started on 12th December, 2016 and finished on 15th December, 2017, right at the start of IHSW:

I stitched one Herald Angel for the Christmas Ornie SAL last December and then started on the blocks for each of the 12 Days of Christmas 2016.  Here is how it looked on Epiphany 2017:

The border took me nearly all year, stitching a bit each evening while my son was in the bath.  There is a single row of dark red and a row of metallic on each side.  Very time-consuming and tedious.

Each month I completed a block and showed it as part of the Christmas Ornie SAL and also on here, with the appropriate chapter from John Julius Norwich's book.  I do recommend that you all get a cop of that book as Quentin Blake's illustrations are marvellous.

I have bought a gold frame and will be framing it later this week, ready to be displayed for Christmas.

Finally, the Advent Calendar is going well again this year, lots of beautiful festive stitching and some great ideas for how to spend Boxing Day.  We still have more doors to open, with some being double door days so keep checking back each to see the latest picture and link.