Progress report...and there is progress!

Apologies for the lack of posting over the last week or so - it has turned out to be a very busy time lately! I had my birthday recently and have decided to treat myself to a kit and some new scissors at the Sewing for Pleasure show at the NEC in a couple of weeks - what a great way to drag my birthday out a bit longer?!

I have been making slow but good progress with the anemonies and really only have the purple flower to do now. I think the part which is slowing me down the most is that I need to use a strand each of two different colours - which looks great but really gets on my nerves as it's so fiddly to get the needle threaded up and the threads don't always sit as well on the aida. I also realised I'd made a couple of mistakes and had to go back and unpick two blocks of stitches. Fortunately it wasn't too much, and it does look much better now that it's correct so it was worth the effort. I'm now actually beginning to enjoy this kit, so it's worth persevering with!

I've also managed to find a proper way to store all my stash (only because I've chucked loads of non-stitchy stuff out) and think I might post a picture of the kits I've got still to do in the hope that it might inspire me to get stitching a bit more quickly! Hopefully there are other stitchers out there who have a large collection of kits and charts that they'll 'get around to one day'!