I may not have been updating my blog for the past six months or so but I have been keeping up with the SALs I signed on for

I decided to stick with Return of Spring (by Ian Daniels) again this year. All in all this is one of my favourite pieces and I would love to see her finished one day, even if I am only working on her once a month she is still slowly coming to life and the shading detail is just breathtaking. One moment it just looks like a bunch of haphazard dots then that final stitch goes into an area and magically it just all comes together.

The light colours around her face are so similar to the fabric colour that I find them hard to stitch for long periods, especially at night as I don’t have a decent lamp so I try to break the up with going back and working on the top corner page… the holes are steadily fading away as I hunt and peck those last few details stitches.