January IHSW

IHSW or International Hermit and Stitch Weekend always starts on the third Friday of the month.  It's a chance to lock yourself away and focus on your stitching for the weekend.  You can take part on your blog or via the Facebook page - IHSW on Facebook.

My focus piece for the weekend was the Discworld Mappe by Lyndisfarne Designs.  Here's where it was on Friday:

And here is that portion now:

I finished backstitching the owl and got lots of the banner done including the fiddly lettering.

Here is where the whole piece is now:

stitched on 32 count Murano custom-dyed by Sparklies

I have one more day to work on it this month to make the full 14 days and then I will move on to something else.

I didn't work on Just Nan's Christmas Friends at all because I did some papercrafting instead.  Which I will share when the recipient has received it.

I did work on the Alice in Wonderland SAL from Cross Stitcher magazine.  I made this my bathtime project and added some of the border motifs:

stitched on 32 count yellow Belfast linen

There is a backstitched vine with beaded berries to twine around the border so I'll be doing the beading with the vine for each row once I have completed the three blocks in the row.  There is still another row of blocks to stitch!

Finally, the next IHSW will be 21st - 23rd February so make sure you note the date in your diary or come and join us in the Facebook Group - IHSW on Facebook.  If you don't do Facebook then you can check in here by leaving a comment on my post.