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Stitching for Pleasure Progress 2026
Monthly Update: End of February 2026 (as usual, click on first image below to see a larger version) I'm continuing the monthly mini-list which was a great help last year... To Do for February:
Well February began as dull and dreary as January had been. Still not good for much getting out and about, but on the other hand,the beginning of the month provided some stitching time. I have managed to clock up THREE #FettleThoseFinishes Points!. During the first of week of February I caught up with the remaining two circles (#52 roundels with Anne Brooke) from January and stitch the final two sardines (Blackwork in Colour pattern from Peppermint Purple). The rest of the month has been dominated by intensive stitching for the Cathedral Broderers - this is a secret piece of very fine embroidery that the group is working on. It has to be completed by the end of March, when it will disappear to the Royal School of Needlework for mounting and sending on to the Worshipful Company of Upholders. Week three I finished the border of the sardines and got it mounted. Now I need to find a frame for it. I started two of the #52 roundels for February, but I am two weeks behind and we are already approaching the first week of March... I'm doing these a little bit differently so I can work all four on a single piece of fabric then turn them into posh suffolk puffs at the end of the month. I bought a new laptop so had to spend a bit of time transferring files across. I thought while I'm sorting things out, I'll have a look through my sunrise and sunset photos to find a suitable one for my canvas work squares. Ta Dah, I have found a very colourful one. I've selected four small sections to interpret with stitch. I've been in Tracy Franklin's studio quite a lot this month, so I took the opportunity to pick the colours of wools I wanted to use on the canvas work. That's a bit of progress on that bit of work that has been hanging around for years...
Miss Lizzie was assiduous with her snoopervision and prodding for the sardines! I was struggling with the hoop, so I eventually put the linen on a slate frame - why didn't I do this right at the beginning, it really does make stitching so much easier! - and of course immediately realised the purple head was an absolute mess. Sadly there was a quite a bit of unpicking and starting again. The border seemed to be going so well until you are one stitch out and the pattern won't fit at the corner. Thank goodness I was working the patterns in stages, which made the unpicking a tiny bit less annoying. Eventually it was done, It's properly mounted onto board, I just need to get a frame for it. Could I have my TW0 FettleThoseFinishes Points now please?....
#52 Circles (Roundels) project with Anne Brooke. No sooner had I posted January's blog, when I found a little bit of time to watch the videos for weeks 3 and 5 again. Then suddenly the bits were out on the table, and No3 was done. Then I thought I could just quickly have a go at No5, and it was done too! If only the rest of the month had gone so well... I can now count January's roundels as One Point in my FettleThoseFinishes. I thought February only has four Fridays, I could put all the circles on one piece of space dyed cloth and attach it to a small slate frame for easy working, adding the wadding and wooden circles at the end then make them all into the Suffolk puffs... Week 6: It supposed to be a river of beads, but mine seems to be just a mess... Week Seven It's supposed to be patching with boro stitching, I used strips, and my stitching is not very neat. I definitely don't like this one. I haven't even looked at the videos for weeks 8 and 9. NIL POINT for February's circles so far! I hope I can get back on track with the circles. Fortunately there are only four Fridays in March.
The summary of #52 Circles (Roundels) will be shown on my monthly update. I have created another section on the Slow Stitch page where all the roundels are shown week by week. Keep watching and coming back to see how I get on.
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Images from all my 2025 fettled finishes are in a special gallery, click here to go to the
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