A Couple of Little Finishes

This year I have been focusing on getting some good progress on my WIPs rather than new starts, but sometimes you see something and want to stitch it straightaway so you squeeze it into the rotation.

I've been a subscriber to Cross Stitcher magazine off and on for many years.  This issue they have a new series of small designs from Jessica Savage based on Mindfulness words.  I just really liked the first one and as it was only 40 x 40 I knew it wouldn't take long to stitch up.

I have no idea what the rest of the series will be like or whether I will like them so I stitched it in the corner of a piece of blue 25 count evenweave.  Stitched over one to keep it cute!

If I like the rest I will stitch them on the same piece of fabric and decide what to do at the end of the series. 

The next finish is my monthly Christmas Ornament.  This month it is another design by The Sweetheart Tree, called Holly 'n' Hardanger:

stitched on 32 count linen

I decided to go for the "No Cut" Hardanger for speed.  Some of the blocks were already charted with eyelets in the centre rather than cutwork so I simply did that for all the blocks.

I do love those little Rhodes Hearts.  The red beads are a shade lighter than charted because I'm stitching from stash.

I took a break from stitching expanses of land on the Discworld Mappe and completed the Tentacled Woman in the Sea:

The consensus of opinion in the Discworld FB group is that she is the Sea Queen:

The Sea Queen (or Queen of the Sea) is a capricious deity.  After Vorbis orders the killing of a porpoise in Small Gods, in order to demonstrate to the crew that they have strayed from the true Omnian path and that their belief is baseless superstition worthy of the attentions of the Quisition, she gets somewhat testy.
For, as any good sailor knows, porpoises are Her beloved children and to slay one brings about divine retribution. A passenger like Vorbis would not know this.
When the expected retribution happens, Om in his tortoise-form bargains with her to spare him and Brutha. She grudgingly concedes that a fellow-god,however insignificant, has the right to save his believer, and spares their lives when the ship sinks.
It is possible that she ensures Vorbis is the only other survivor of the shipwreck either out of sheer spite or an intuitive understanding of Coleridge: A thousand thousand slimy things lived on, and so did I.

Source: L-Space

Finally, I will be sending out the remaining Summer Postcards for the Blog Hop this weekend.  It's been a bit of a quiet Hop this time but if you want to join in at the last moment, please leave a comment!

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