I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!

I've started stitching Santa's 12 Days of Christmas in January 2015. I thought it never be done...
I was wrong! I finished Santa #9 and#10, now I'm working on the #11 and it looks like I will finish all of them by Christmas.

 

So long my friends,
Evalina

Rain, showers, scattered showers, more rain...

It is pretty wet on the West wet coast, perfect time for relaxing, stitching, reading or updating the blog. Nothing very exciting has happened in my life lately other than sailing. Last Sunday the sky was cleared for a while (it actually turned blue!) so we jumped on the boat and spread sails. We had a lot of fun with sea lions. It looked like they were playing with us. They were sticking their heads above the water, making some kind of noises and as soon as I try to catch them on the camera they made a perfect flip and hide under the water only to show up in a different spot. Here are couple of my attempts to capture the fun.

And, of course I was stitching some. I promised to myself that I will work on one project at a time and now I'm keep stitching my Santa's 12 days of Christmas. Santa number 7 and 8 are finished, now I'm working on Santa #9.

Colours are showing depending on the light. The closest to original is Santa #7. I hope I can finish Santa #9 tonight and then I will have to finish three more Santas before Christmas. Can I do it? What do you think?

So long my friends,
Evalina

Life is good!

Summer is gone, September is almost gone - time for an update! Let's start with stitching. My Woodland Santa is done

and Santa #6 is done

and that makes the whole project half done

And let me tell you about biggest surprise - we bought a yacht. Yeap, a 40 footer sailing yacht. I have never sail before, I'm a glider pilot but Freddy is the sailor and I figured that us and mom can have fun together and add a little adventure to our lives.

This baby will be ready to sail tomorrow to her new home.

So long my friends,
Evalina

Gifted Gorgeousness

It has been a while since my last update on the Gifted Gorgeousness hosted by Jo of Serendipitous Stitching, a very long while since my last post was in April! Never-less I was working on it a little and here is the new look of the Quaker Christmas Sampler:

I promise to have it done by the next update in September (big smile).

And, since it is Sunday, I was stitching with Linda. She is done with Santa's 12 Days of Christmas, I just finished my Santa number two:

So long my friends,
Evalina

Weekend reflections

I can't believe it, I was stitching outside! In March! Gosh, I love Vancouver Island. I love view from my window even on a cloudy day

and I love walking down the street

Just to remind you where I came from, here are couple of pics from early April last year

Quite a difference eh?

Now, let's get back to stitching. Our dear Jo is hosting Hallowe'en Ornie SAL 2015 and, of course, I decided to join. I guess my startitis isn't gone completely yet. Yesterday I started (and finished!) Fall Owl, now I have to transform that piece into ornament.

I also have made a progress on my Santas

 and Alicia, the pirate

So long my friends,
Evalina

Stitchy Sunday

Well, it's more than just stitchy Sunday. As always during the third week of the month I was hermitting and stitching and stitching... I finished first Santa of the Santa's 12 Days of Christmas and I made a lovely progress on Alicia, the strawberry pirate. Here are the pics:

 Santa's 12 Days of Christmas - day 1

Strawberry Pirate Alicia (see my right side bar for the pic) - it doesn't look like much is done but when you look on the pic below it shows you my progress: in blue - done in January, in Yellow - February and the pink is done in March.

 So long my friends,
Evalina

Hello March!

February was short like a blink of an eye. My first Canadian winter without snow - love it! Lately even the rain stopped. Fruit trees are full of blossoms - it's so much different from living on the north. Though my dear friend Heather just email to me lovely captured Aurora Borealis

She also dared me to finish Irish Blessing (one of my super duper starts) before St. Patrick Day. Since I'm taking all challenges very seriously I started working on it right away.

that's where I'd left in January

and that's today

Yesterday I was stitching with Linda. Both of us are working on Santa's 12 Days of Christmas. I've started all twelve days during the challenge, yesterday I was working on day one:

 before

after

So long my friends,

Evalina