My Current Wip

I started working on Christmas Dreams by Joan Elliott. I chose to start with the blue one on the silver sparklie aida. I've been stitching for at least a few minutes almost every day.

This picture shows the sparkles in the fabric quite clearly. It is a beautiful fabric.

This one was taken without a flash so that the sparkly bits wouldn't be so bright and the stitching itself would then be more visible.

I am really enjoying stitching this design. It isn't too complicated and I love the way it grows fairly quickly.

For anyone that was wondering why I never posted winners for the PIF I posted about the answer is fairly simple, I only got 1 response from a non-stitcher. I wasn't sure how to handle this or what I wanted to do. She is more than willing to join in but as she is a writer and doesn't stitch she isn't sure what to send forward on her turn. I will be sending her something within the next 365 days and leaving it up to her whether to offer a PIF on her blog or not. I'm sure there can be PIFs that are not stitching related if people want to do that as well. Her name is Jo and she is a wonderful lady. Now here's hoping she likes what I send her. LOL

PIF

I won a PIF on Lindsay's blog "Caring Stitcher" back in October of 2008. When I got home from Thanksgiving with family I had a small package in the mail. The package contained my pif gift! I am so happy with it!! She did a beautiful biscornu for me, added a pretty card and a skein of the scented DMC floss to try! This is my first biscornu and it is gorgeous! Her stitches are beautiful!

Thank you so much Lindsay! I love it!

PIF stands for "Pay It Forward" and it was started because of an old movie by the same name. How it works is you announce, on your blog, that you are going to do a PIF. You choose how many recipients you want (1, 2, 3, or more) and what the PIF items will be (it can be a stitched and finished item, or stitching stash etc. so long as it is stitching or craft related). You announce the date that your PIF recipients will be chosen and tell people to comment on your post if they wish to be included. Then you draw the names and those people will be your PIF recipients. At some point within the next 365 days you must send your winners the items you chose to do. They can then announce on their blogs that they are going to do a PIF and thus "Pay It Forward".


I will send a stitching related item (could be stash, could be a stitched and finished item) within the next 365 days (by Dec. 7, 2010) to two people. So if you would like a chance at being one of those two people please comment on this post. I will announce the winners on Dec. 31, 2009!