Thank you AI!!

American Idol, that is! I finished Santa's bag while watching the two hour show. Since I really listened more than watched, I managed to get quite a bit done last night.:)

A beard, and a bits of a sleeve...

You guessed it....more Santa! I finished filling in the large portion of Santa's beard. What is it about working with white? You really have to watch how your stitches lay, since it seems that every little fault shows with the white thread. He still has some beard, but that is below his sleeve. I didn't realize how long and flowing it was! I also started on his second sleeve. This picture shows the beginning of a checkered area....one of my favorite parts of this design.

More Santa

A little beard, another mitten and some of his bag....he's coming along slowly, but I am still happy with working on him at this point. :))

...and for Gabi...on the Little House Needleworks Traveling Stitcher bag...the instructions for the finishing are not very good at all. It basically says to attach a piece of iron on interfacing and turn under the edges. I have attached mine, but am not very happy with it, right now. I am thinking of adding some twisted cord around the perimeter to make it appear "neater."

A Finish!!

I put the last stitches in on my Little House Needleworks Traveling Stitcher. Yeah!!! Now to just assemble the needlebook and case. :))

A little bird ...

A little dove in my Santa's mittened hand. Also, a little of that turquoise bag he's carrying over his shoulder.

Progress picture! He has an arm and a mitten. That will be a little dove resting in his hand, once I stitch all the white!

and more progress pictures:

My Autumn Watergarden by Chatelaine Designs, which has not been out for a while:

A Face!

Yeah!! My Santa has a face!! I always like to stitch the heads on my Mirabilia's. I know a lot of people don't like to have the face until the end. Not me! I always enjoy doing Nora's faces. There is still some white Wisper thread to be filled in on his hat. I usually tend to stitch my Wisper thread later. I'm still deciding whether or not to replace it with DMC.